A masterplan drawn up by architecture firm Snøhetta envisions an "island" neighbourhood for 12,000 students off the Danube river in south Budapest . Snøhetta won the Budapest South Gate International Masterplan Design Competition with its design, which involves creating a new channel of water off the Danube branch to form a new peninsular. Accommodation for 12,000 students is proposed across the 135-hectare site. There will also be education and sporting facilities, set between parks and recreation areas. An athletics arena in the South Gate will have the capacity to seat 15,000, and the district will be connected to the upcoming Danubias railway station. Snøhetta, which has offices in Oslo and New York, was selected to design the new neighbourhood ahead of 17 other invited applicants including UNStudio , Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios , Adept and Squire and Partners . The co...
The Berthold Lubetkin-designed Penguin Pool at London Zoo, an icon of modernist architecture, should be demolished says the architect's daughter. The pool, created by Lubetkin and the Tecton Group in 1934, has been empty for 15 years, because penguins contracted bumblefoot infection from walking on the concrete . Sasha Lubetkin told local paper the Camden New Journal that the pool should be destroyed as it is now useless. "It was designed as a showcase and playground of captive penguins, and I can't see that it would be suited to anything else," she told local paper the Camden New Journal . "Perhaps it's time to blow it to smithereens." "Latest thinking in the 1930s has long been superseded" The Penguin Pool is regarded as a landmark project, both in terms of architectural design and engineering. It saw Lubetkin – who emigrated from Soviet-era Georgia to London in 1931 – and structural...