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Baltimore Art Museum Selects Polshek Partnership for Master Plan

The Walters Art Museum announced today that it has selected New York based Polshek Partnership Architects to develop a comprehensive master plan for its buildings and grounds. The selection was the result of a national search. The master plan is the Museum’s first in 11 years and is needed to assess the utilization of existing space more efficiently. The planning process is expected to take nine months.

The Walters Art Museum is located in the historic Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland

Future City : Experiment and Utopia in Architecture from 1950 to Now

From Archigram to Zaha Hadid, Future City traces the history and development of international experimental architecture since 1950.

This exhibition at London's Barbican Centre runs from June 15 to September 17, 2006, and features 60 visionary building projects and urban plans from around the world.

These ground-breaking projects illustrate the energy and experimentation that characterise radical architecture, and raise questions about the nature of buildings, cities and society.

Comprising original models and drawings, films and photographs, the exhibition invites us to envisage radically new ways of living in the city.

Highlights include a model of Constant Nieuwenhuys's New Babylon (1956-74), conceived as a society where people are freed from daily work; collages of Peter Cook's Instant City (1968-69) a "travelling metropolis" reflecting Archigram's interest in popular culture and science fiction; and the intricately layered model of Daniel Libeskind's urban project City Edge, Berlin (1987).

More recent projects include computer imagery of a 21st-century plug-in building, (Un) Plug Building (Tour EDF) (2001), by R+Sie…; and models of the prize-winning project Yokohama International Port Terminal (1995-2002) by Foreign Office Architects.

The majority of the projects on display remain unrealized

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MASDAR DEVELOPMENT

Masdar Development Video now online

The Masdar Development Video in association with Foster + Partners is now available to view - click here to watch it now

Random Acts of Architecture

July 2007 || Magic Kingdom of Trash in Argentina. A man with a plan decided in the 1980's to create a park of beauty in Gaiman, Argentina. In the middle of the typical park greenery, he created a masterpiece of art and architecture. It is a park made of trash What? Yep, you heard it. Don Joaquin Alonso collected garbage and used his noodle to make a wonderful space of buildings, roofs, fences and flowers. Go here and learn more »