UNESCO’s socio-architectural reconstruction project for Mosul (Iraq) at 17thInternational Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
UNESCO, the Government of Iraq and the Ministry of Culture and Youth of United Arab Emirates, will present an exhibition on the ongoing…
The Cass of the City, University of London is renamed Bayes Business School
In July 2020, the Business School committed to changing its name after it was found that some of Sir John Cass’s wealth was obtained through…
2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award goes to Jean-Claude Mourlevat
Jean-Claude Mourlevat is one of France’s leading children and young adult authors. Since his publishing debut in 1997, he has written more than…
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal Receive the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize
These two architects of France, have been selected as the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of The Hyatt Foundation,…
Guggenheim Bilbao installs an impressive work by Lucio Fontana in the Atrium
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is unveiling the installation of a spectacular work by Lucio Fontana in its Atrium, which Museum visitors will be…
UNESCO calls for COVID-19 vaccines to be considered a global public good
UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee (IBC) and the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) have called for a change…
Highest-ever funding to UN rural development agency IFAD to tackle hunger and poverty for the world’s poorest
US$3.8 billion, that’s how much the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will now be able to invest in the world’s rural…
Bilbao and Painting
– At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, Bilbao is a town that expands in every sense of…
Future cities: new challenges need to reimagine the look of urban landscapes
Nick Dunn, Lancaster University and Paul Cureton, Lancaster University Imagining future cities has long been a favourite activity for architects, artists and designers. Technology is often central in…