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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:31:12 +0530
Architecture in 2007
By Edwin Heathcote
Published: December 27 2006 17:17 | Last updated: December 27 2006 17:17
The year 2007 looks as if it’s going to be more about circuses than bread.
While Lord Foster’s over-budget and unfashionably late Wembley Stadium
reaches completion and Londoners begin to worry about paying for the
2012 Olympics, the costs of which are rising as fast as the city’s
absurd property prices, Beijing will be completing its astonishing new
stadium a year early. Here the Swiss architects Herzog de Meuron,
currently also working on the expansion of the world’s most popular art
gallery, London’s Tate Modern, have designed an intriguingly complex
structure in the form of a vermicelli ball that has become known as “the
bird’s nest”. It is the closest architecture has come to Cy Twombly and
I look forward to seeing it.
cont'd....
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9dcb5398-91cd-11db-a945-0000779e2340.html
and Discussion (what mostly American architects like):
http://www.archinect.com/forum/threads.php?id=49341_0_42_0_C