(No ducks were harmed in the launching of this project).
If it did not sink this year, it would sink next year. If it did not sink next year, it would sink the year after that. After nearly fifty years service, Henley Royal Regatta, had decided they needed to retire the much loved Regatta Control Barge. Continue reading »
As part of their 25 year celebrations Arsenal in the Community approached Populous to set up an Architecture Series. The Emirates Stadium was turned into a tool for teaching students about architecture. The first event of the planned series was set up by passionate Arsenal fan and architecture student James Norris and his lecturer Steve Bowkett. The group from South Bank University investigated alternative uses for the stadium.
A few of us popped down to the London School of Economics recently to hear a talk given by Professor David Goldblatt on the inescapable connections between global sport and global capitalism. He summed up his argument in an anecdote from when he was studying for his PHD at Cambridge explaining that his tutor was insistent that to get an understanding of global capital and its movement he should read the Financial Times from cover to cover each day. Having a busy work life balance he argued it was just as plausible to only read the sports pages. Continue reading »
Mayor Boris Johnson was the star attraction in the London Tent at this years MIPIM event, in Cannes. The Mayor announced a number of key initiatives, including the next stages of development for the London Olympic Park, before making a visit to the Populous Stand – where he discussed the London Olympic Stadium project with John Barrow and Tom Jones.
Boris Johnson reviews the London Olympic Stadium on the Populous Stand with John Barrow
Yesterday we received an email from the SEGD that we didn’t win the Design Awards this year (but were encouraged to re-submit in 2011 – ah well). Awww, I was quite keen to go to Washington DC for a change. Anyway, it ain’t happening this year, but for all the effort that we made in digging out the photos and scrambling some text together I might as well share the sheer beauty of the project with anyone else willing to look 
We started working on this wayfinding / signage project in summer/autumn 2009 and we had about 5 months to have everything (from strategy to design to actual production supervision) in place before the Fifa 2009 Club World Cup kicked off in December.
Enjoy
Zayed Sport City Entrance Gate with Numerals
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Recently, William Chen joined an architectural wine trip to Bilbao, San Sebastian and La Rioja; with an aim to explore the contrast between old and new in this historic part of Spain and to visit the Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition in the Guggenheim Gallery. The trip was organized by Architectural Association for a small group, including current AA students, architects in practice and retired AA members.
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