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21 Apr 2017
Last captive orca born at SeaWorld
Just over a year after SeaWorld announced plans to end its controversial orca breeding plan, the company’s last killer whale has been born in its captivity. The last generation of orcas under SeaWorld’s care, the company now has a total of 23 killer whales across its parks in San Diego, San Antonio and
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20 Apr 2017
Madame Tussaud’s talking waxwork first step in ‘bringing figures to life’
A waxwork model of Darius Rucker has been taken to a whole new level of realism. Not only does the figure look like the Hootie and the Blowfish frontman, it talks like him too. Madame Tussauds Nashville, the music-inspired Merlin midway in Tennessee, unveiled its “living waxwork” this week, and is the first
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20 Apr 2017
Heatherwick's 'incredible jigsaw puzzle' landmark rises at Hudson Yards
Vessel, Thomas Heatherwick’s centerpiece for the public square and gardens at the Hudson Yards development in New York, is rising from the ground. The first pieces of the sculptural urban landmark were placed together earlier this week on Manhattan’s West Side. The public will be able to follow construction
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19 Apr 2017
Snøhetta celebrate 'radical reinvention' of New York's Times Square
International architecture studio Snøhetta are today (19 April) celebrating the official completion of their hotly-anticipated revamp of the most visited destination in the United States – New York’s Times Square. The firm was commissioned in 2010 to find a way of doubling the amount of public space in the
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19 Apr 2017
Kengo Kuma designs Turkish modern art museum formed of stacked wooden boxes
The ever-busy architecture practice of Kengo Kuma have added yet another large-scale leisure project to their growing slate of work: the Odunpazari Modern Art Museum in the Turkish city Eskisehir. A series of overlapping stacked wooden volumes will form the 3,582sq m (38,500sq ft) museum building, which will
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19 Apr 2017
Discovery unveils grand ambition for US$400m Costa Rica theme park
Discovery Communications is hoping to entice some of its three billion worldwide viewers to a US$400m (€373m, £312m) eco-theme park resort it is developing in Costa Rica. Discovery, which owns both the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet airing in more than 180 countries, will develop the 8sq km (3sq m)
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19 Apr 2017
Design competition launched for 'world-class' Kaunas concert venue
An international design competition is to be held in the next few months for a new concert venue in the heart of Kaunas, Lithuania. Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC) has been appointed by Kaunas City Municipality to run the one-stage design contest, which will identify an architect to build a world-class music
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18 Apr 2017
Landmark Gaudí summer house in Barcelona to open as a museum this year
Antoni Gaudí was the creator of Barcelona’s most famous and significant buildings and parks, including Sagrada Familia and the Palau Güell. Now, final preparations are underway to give the public an inside look at one of his lesser-known architectural landmarks in the city: the Casa Vicens summer home. The
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18 Apr 2017
Half of natural World Heritage sites threatened by crime, says WWF report
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has said that close to half of the world’s natural heritage sites are being “plagued” by wildlife criminals. According to figures released by the conservation charity, crimes of illegal poaching, logging, harvesting and trafficking are rampant in places recognised as being of
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