by Rose Etherington – December 5th, 2007 via dezeen.com

A lot of people have been asking for more on The Dairy House by architect Charlotte Skene Catling, which is shortlisted for the Bombay Sapphire Prize (see our earlier story). So here you go…

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by Alysha Brown – September 27, 2007 via MetropolisMag.Com

Alain de Botton has written about everything from Proust (How Proust Can Change Your Life, 1997) to love (Essays in Love,1993) to travel (The Art of Travel, 2002). In his most recent book, The Architecture of Happiness, the writer, who also moonlights as a philosopher, producer, and the Director of the Graduate Philosophy Program at London University, tackles the complex world of architecture. He recently chatted with metropolismag.com about happiness, the perfect city, and what a philosopher has to offer the world of architecture.
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September 10, 2007 via dezeen.com

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) will show a LEGO model of their LEGO Towers project for an upcoming exhibition at Storefront for Architecture and Design in New York.

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by BIGSOLUTIONS – September 05, 2007

Bjarke Ingels Group’s LEGO Towers project built over five weeks using 250,000 pieces of LEGO bricks.

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September 5, 2007 via dezeen.com

The Foster + Partners and URS team has won an international competition to build the first private spaceport in the world – The New Mexico Spaceport Authority Building – it was announced yesterday. The sinuous shape of the building in the landscape and its interior spaces seek to capture the drama and mystery of space flight itself, articulating the thrill of space travel for the first space tourists. Making a minimal impact on the environment, the scheme will be the first facility of its kind and a model for the future.

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September 5, 2007 via dezeen.com

Architects Foster + Partners have won a competition to build the world’s first private spaceport in New Mexico.

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September 4, 2007 via dezeen.com

LAS CRUCES, NM – A team of U.S. and British architects and designers, accompanied by officials from the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) and Virgin Galactic, will unveil the design renderings of Spaceport America at a press conference Tuesday, September 4, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Construction on the 100,000 square-foot hangar and terminal facility is scheduled to begin in 2008.

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by Neelam Mathews – August 30, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

A team of firms won the $300 million project to transform Chennai International by 2010

The Airports Authority of India has chosen plans by a team of architects including Frederic Schwartz Architects, Hargreaves Associates, Gensler, and New Delhi-based Creative Group to expand the Chennai International Airport’s domestic and international terminals. When completed in 2010, the $300 million project will transform Chennai, located in the city formerly known as Madras, into India’s greenest airport.

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by Alec Appelbaum – August 29, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

Across the country, once faceless parking garages are getting new architectural attention

The depressing amount of time most Americans spend sitting in traffic has an architectural counterpart in the bleak urban stretches devoted to faceless garages and parking lots. But as cities get serious about curbing pollution and congestion, and rising land prices drive developers to make the most out of tight sites, parking is also getting some architectural attention.

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by Sarah – August 26, 2007 via Modern-Roost.Blogspot.Com

Someone in the Netherlands has made apartments out of an old water tower. And apparently, they’re not the only ones. How gorgeous and ingenious is this? It’s a grown-up tree-house.
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