Articles by Eleanor Gibson

Flat-pack startup Jupe has unveiled the “world’s first standalone Intensive Care Unit” and other pop-up care facilities to help hospitals under pressure due to coronavirus. Jupe, which was founded by entrepreneur ​Jeff Wilson​ and investment banker Cameron Blizzard to provide housing to displaced people, announced yesterday it was pivoting services in response to the pandemic.

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Tributes have poured in for architect and critic Michael Sorkin, who has died aged 71 of complications caused by Covid-19. Based in New York, Sorkin headed architect Michael Sorkin Studio and was president of non-profit research group Terreform. His death triggered shock and an outpouring of warm tributes from architects, critics and writers around the

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The American Institute of Architects has urged Congress to support small architecture firms and their employees as they struggle amid the coronavirus pandemic. The call comes as small creative businesses in the US fear they could go out of business as the pandemic slows the economy. “The mega galleries – Larry Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth,

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The American Institute of Architects’ annual conference, which was set to feature Virgil Abloh as keynote speaker, has been postponed this year following US outbreaks of coronavirus. The 2020 Conference of Architecture was set to take place in Los Angeles from 14 to 16 May but is now postponed until further notice. AIA president Jane

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Aaron Betsky has resigned as president of Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture at Taliesin and will become the director of Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture + Design. Betsky, who resigned from the School of Architecture at Taliesin in November 2019, will begin his new role on 1 June 2020, it was revealed this week.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced that it will close indefinitely from tomorrow in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus in the city. The art museum will shutter its main building on Fifth Avenue, as well as its Met Breuer and Met Cloisters locations, on Friday 13 March. The

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First lady of the United States Melania Trump has revealed that a tennis pavilion, which takes cues from the neoclassical style of the The White House, is being built on the grounds of the presidential residence. Melania Trump, whose husband Donald Trump is US president, revealed on Twitter that construction of the tennis pavilion is underway. The building

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