Our biggest news stories came right at the end of this week, with UK’s decision to leave the European Union.
Many of Britain's best-known architects – including David Chipperfield and David Adjaye –
had campaigned for the country to remain in the EU in the days preceding the national referendum on the issue, but their pleas were rejected by 52 per cent of those who voted.
The result has sent shockwaves through the architecture and design industries in the country, as economic uncertainty begins to take root and the social and cultural repercussions of Brexit become clear.
In sports architecture this week,
France’s rugby federation agreed a deal to begin the construction of a new national stadium designed by Populous. Meanwhile, in the US city Minneapolis, NFL franchise the Minnesota Vikings
were handed the keys to their own new US$1bn home.Following the opening of the Tate Modern last week, another of
CLAD’s most anticipated leisure buildings of 2016 has now opened – Renzo Piano’s green-roofed
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens. Other cultural openings this week include a
Carsten Höller slide in London and
OMA’s extension to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, while Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners announced
their Washington Spy Museum is now under construction. In hotel news,
Conrad,
Unico,
Hard Rock, and
Antara unveiled new properties. Meanwhile, Architects of Invention revealed
a hotel concept designed using biomimicry and Ron Arad completed
his expensive revamp of the Watergate Hotel.Other projects
CLAD reported on this week include
a beautiful planned visitor centre by a Greenland glacier, Christo's
floating piers across an Italian lake,
a new library by Dutch innovators MVRDV and
Kazakhstan’s sustainable Astana Expo City, which will host the world’s next international architecture exposition in 2017.
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