Useful Websites

The Wallpaper Graduate Directory 2009
http://www.wallpaper.com/content/feature/graduate-directory-2009/
On this website you will find up and coming architects, designers, illustrators, photographers and more, fresh from university.

The Wallpaper Architects Directory 2008
http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/architects-directory-2008/2474
Here you’ll find well known architects from all over the world.
 
The Architects Website
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/
Building design is a website where you’ll find up to date news from the architecture world.
 
Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/
A video sharing website.
 
blogcatalog
http://www.blogcatalog.com/
Network [...]

Young Architects of 2008 Shortlist

Amenity Space
AOC
Architects in Residence
Architecture 53 Seven
Barnaby Gunning Architects
Claridge Architects
DOS Architects
Duggan Morris Architects (see other post)
Exploration
Feix & Merlin Architects
Friend & Company Architects (see other post)
Hackett Hall McKnight
Harry Dobbs Design
Inglis Badrashi Loddo
Khoury Architects
Kraus Schoenberg
McChesney Architects
Michael Trentham Architects
Mobile Studio
Nekton Design
Platform 5 Architects
Roewu
Serie Architects
Sybarite
William Tozer Architecture & Design.

A Couple from the Young Architects of 2008 Shortlist in More Detail…

Duggan Morris Architects

Their project portfolio includes work such as construction in retail and exhibition, commercial and office, leisure, education, housing and private residence. As well as commercial work they also enter competitions. They create architecture to have attitude rather than aesthetics’ or style and encourage free thinking.
“We believe all architecture should demonstrate a consistent approach [...]

The Brit Insurance Design Awards 2009 Shortlist (Architecture & Graphic’s)

Here are the nominees for the Architects and Graphic Designers put up for this coming Brit Insurance Design Awards 2009. The exhibition opens 12 February until 14 June 2009, the category winners will be announced on 24 February and the overall winner will be awarded at the Awards Dinner on 18 March at the Design Museum London, so [...]

Steven Holl Architect’s

Steven Holl is an American architect. He is up for the Brit Insurance Design Awards 2009 for his companies Linked Hybrid building in Beijing completed October 2008.

The 220,000 square meter Linked Hybrid complex, for pedestrians is sited adjacent to the site of old city wall of Beijing. It aims to counter the current urban developments in China [...]

Norman Foster

Norman Foster is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice. He is Britain’s most prolific builder of landmark office buildings. He was born in Manchester in 1935. After graduating from Manchester University School of Architecture and City Planning in 1961 he won a Henry Fellowship to Yale University, where he gained a Master’s Degree [...]

Jean Prouvé

Jean Prouvé is one of the greatest French designers of the 20th century. Working as a craftsman, designer, manufacturer, architect, teacher and engineer, his career spanned over sixty years. He mainly worked with buildings and furniture. I heard about him during my first visit to the design museum and there fore looked up his work.
From his [...]

Richard Rogers

One of the most influential British architects of our time, RICHARD ROGERS has established himself and his practice, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, at the cutting edge of today’s architecture industry.

The Pompidou Centre in Paris has proved itself to be one of the most remarkable buildings of the 20th century. The image of the Pompidou pervaded [...]

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the first architects that caught my eye when I first got into researching art and design. I used to not find geometric designs that appealing but within architecture I feel it works very well. The way angular shapes are positioned on such a large structure seems unnatural. It not only makes you question its [...]

Herzog & de Meuron

When asked ‘Who are my top ten architects?’ one of the first to come to mind is, Herzog & de Meuron.
This year was the year of the Olympic Games at Beijing, China as your most likely aware of and these are the guys that designed the Main National Stadium. It is the most striking of [...]