Crystal Palace ideas competition winners revealed

The Architects’ Journal Crystal Palace ideas competition winners revealed The Museum of Architecture has announced the winners of an open ideas contest to reimagine the Crystal Palace The post Crystal Palace ideas competition winners revealed appeared first on The Architects’ Journal Merlin Fulcher

Hunt starts for £60m Crystal Palace Park housing contractor

Clarion moves quickly to market after securing consent for 202 affordable homes

Bovis no longer working on Crystal Palace stadium expansion

Club had said it wanted work on Selhurst Park scheme to start last summer

HTA designs playground in Crystal Palace Park as ‘paleontological dig’

The Architects’ Journal HTA designs playground in Crystal Palace Park as ‘paleontological dig’ HTA Design has created a new playground in Crystal Palace Park featuring layers of geology, fossils and prehistoric creatures The post HTA designs playground in Crystal Palace Park as ‘paleontological dig’ appeared first on The Architects’ Journal Rob Wilson

Museum of Architecture launches competition to imagine a contemporary Crystal Palace

Winning entries to be displayed at this summer’s Great Exhibition Festival in central London this summer

ARTiculations - When Did Modern Architecture Actually Begin? 22072018

Did modern architecture really begin in the 1920s with the founding of the Bauhaus school? Perhaps. But perhaps the changing landscape of architectural practice and theory throughout the last 200 years is not as straight forward as it seems

Cheddar - How Glass Skyscrapers Conquered Our Cities, 28072020

New York City has over 6,000 high rise buildings and for the last 75 years most of the skyscrapers built were constructed with glass facades. This trend has continued in cities across the world like London, Moscow, and Shanghai. But over the years, the drawbacks have become more prominent. They may look like elegant symbols of modernity, but beyond that shimmer is a list of problems that has some leaders proposing bans. All that beauty comes at a price.

Mega Projects - The Crystal Palace, An Omen of Things to Come 27072020

England was a vast commonwealth that was perhaps best encapsulated by one building, a building that like the empire no longer exists: The Crystal Palace was the very definition of opulence and it epitomised a Victorian-era Britain. Constructed to house the great exhibition in 1851 in London's Hyde park, it was an extraordinary glass structure the likes of which had barely even been imagined let alone constructed.