Kathryn Gustafson awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize

Gustafson Porter winning design for Valencia Parque Central

Kathryn Gustafson has been awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize for her contribution to architecture. Kathryn Gustafson, a landscape architect and the founding partner in two offices, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, in Seattle, and Gustafson Porter, in London. Her award-winning landscapes can be found throughout North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Both offices have won numerous competitions and have a wide variety of scale of work from furniture through to master planning.

Continue reading Kathryn Gustafson awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize

The 10 Most Creative People in Architecture | Fast Company

The 10 Most Creative People in Architecture | Design & Innovation | Fast Company

Fast Company has produced a special on the creative people of business in every industry and Architecture was one category along with Web, Movies, Health, Marketing, Food and Sports.

The list for Architecture includes the usual list of ‘starchitects’ including Rem Koolhaus, Zaha Hadid, Jacques Herzog, Pierre De Meuron, Norman Foster for the full list go to Fast Company

SOURCE: Fast Company – The 10 Most Creative People in Architecture

Technorati Tags: , , , , , , ,

Slussen Project – Plans Prove Future of Stockhom Slussen Needn’t Be Cast in Concrete – NYTimes.com

NYTimes.com reports

“The five proposals in the competition, on view at stockholm.se/slussen, offer a snapshot of contemporary urban planning ideas. They include a breathtaking design by Jean Nouvel, a head-scratching proposal by Norman Foster and some intriguing work by younger talents who are still mostly unknown internationally.”

[SOURCE: NYTimes.com - Architecture Review - Slussen Project - Plans Prove Future of Stockhom Slussen Needn’t Be Cast in Concrete]