Podcasts about royal gold medal

Tom is joined by the writer and broadcaster Octavia Bright and the Observer's theatre critic Susannah Clapp to review another version of the Greek classic Oedipus, this time at the Old Vic in London and starring Rami Malek.Also reviewed: The Last Showgirl, which has Pamela Anderson starring as Shelley with Jamie Lee Curtis as her good friend. Shelley's Vegas cabaret show is closing and the imminent change forces her to confront her life choices. And: We Do Not Part, the new novel by Nobel Prize for Literature winner, the Korean writer Han Kang. We also hear about the Japanese collaborative SANAA, founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, which has won the Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold Medal for architecture, from Professor Sadie Morgan. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Corinna Jones

Listen to Byens Podcast reporting directly from the UIA World Congress of Architects taking place in Bella Center Copenhagen from 2 to 6 July 2023. In the Rebuilding Pavilion, curated by The Royal Danish Academy and funded by Realdania, the aim has been to physically test sustainable rebuilding. Rebuilding after a devastating war, a huge flooding or with the intention of changing a slum into a proper city. The reasons of rebuilding are many, strategies differ and local settings are crucial to understand, in order to make a real difference. Meet the receiver of the annual Royal Gold Medal 2023, architect Yasmeen Lari, who has dedicated her late career to combine architecture with a social message by creating houses for flood-victims. You will also hear the Syrian writer and architect Marwa Al-Sabouni on rebuilding-strategies after war and Indian architect Bhawna Jaimini reflects on how to change a slum from within. Ingeborg Hau reflects on rebuilding seen in a Danish perspective. Participants ​ Yasmeen Lari, Architect and NGO-leader Bhawna Jaimini, Writer and Architect Marwa Al-Sabouni, Writer and Architect Ingeborg Hau,Chief Advisor, Architecture and the SDGS, The Royal Academy

Thousands of people gathered together on Thursday night to attend a vigil for those killed in the Nottingham attacks. The mothers of the murdered teenagers Grace O'Malley Kumar and Barnaby Webber both paid tribute to their children. Clare speaks to another mother who lost her child to murder, Lisa Squire. Dr Laura Flexer, GP, emailed Woman's Hour to ask the programme to talk about bone health, especially that of teenage girls with anorexia. Should young women with eating disorders be given oestrogen to boost bone density? Dr Flexer joins Nuala to talk about her research, along with Professor Sandeep Ranote, an expert clinical media spokesperson for the eating disorders charity BEAT and a consultant paediatric psychiatrist for eating disorders in the NHS. Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan's first female architect, talks to Nuala about being awarded the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture 2023, her work in disaster zones and helping the poorest communities impacted by climate change. The actor Cate Blanchett joins Clare to celebrate the work and life of Glenda Jackson, actor and MP who died this week. Jo Tongue is a sports agent who represents some of the best known sporting and broadcasting talent in the UK, including England footballer Leah Williamson. She is vocal in her push for parity of the profile and pay for women in sport - both on the pitch and in the media. For this reason, Jo earned herself a place on the Woman's Hour Women in Sport Power List earlier this year. She joins Nuala to tell her about her career to date in a male dominated industry. A growing number of people are experiencing what psychiatrists have labelled eco-anxiety or eco-grief, an overwhelming sense of hopeless and doom due to the current climate situation. So what exactly is the impact on people and how can we turn the tables and help people to feel more hopeful about the environment? Krupa is joined by climate scientist turned campaigner Jen Newall from the Climate Majority Project, and Judy Ling Wong CBE, President of the Black Environment Network. Susanna Hoffs is a solo artist and a founding member of the Bangles. She joins Nuala to discuss her career and her first novel – This Bird Has Flown – described as "part British romcom, part Jane Eyre” – which gives a glimpse inside the music business. Presenter: Clare McDonell Producer: Lottie Garton

The Scout Association is not doing enough to protect and safeguard children from child abuse, that's according to two young women who have set up a website which launches tomorrow (Tuesday) asking for people to share their own testimonies of abuse. They are also calling on the Government as well as the Scout Association to do more. On Tuesday BBC Radio 4's File on Four investigates the Scouts handling of such cases. Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan's first female architect, talks to Nuala on being awarded the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture 2023, her work in disaster zones and helping the poorest communities impacted by climate change. The last in our series Under Pressure about how couples cope when their relationship comes under great strain. An American study from 2010 found that couples who had experienced stillbirth were at a 40% greater risk of their relationship ending. Jo Morris went to meet Mustafa and Hawra who told their story. Presented by Nuala McGovern Reporter Jo Morris Producer: Louise Corley Editor: Karen Dalziel

US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on December 8 outlining a multi-billion-dollar plan for the federal government to achieve ‘net zero' by 2050, The Verge reports. Under the plan, the US government will switch to electric vehicles, upgrade federal buildings, and use the power of the government to shift to cleaner forms of electricity. The government will stop purchasing petrol-powered passenger cars in 2027 but would only achieve 100 percent electric vehicle purchases by 2035. Biden's order will direct the government to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by the end of the decade before reaching full carbon neutrality by 2050. Amazon has been fined € 1.13 billion ($1.28 billion) by Italy's anti-trust regulator, CNBC reports. The Italian competition regulator, AGCM, has found that Amazon abused its market dominance by promoting its own logistics service, called Fulfilment Amazon. It claimed businesses had to use the FBA service to access benefits such as selling products with Prime delivery and participation in Black Friday sales. Amazon said, it "strongly disagrees" with the decision, and would appeal. Instagram's chief Adam Mosseri has called on US lawmakers to help regulate the platform, at a Senate hearing on December 8, which examined the harmful impact of social media on the mental health of teen users, BBC reports. Mosseri argued that Instagram is actively working to address the app's negative effects. However, he called for the creation of industry-wide regulations to police how social media platforms can operate. Inrupt, a startup co-founded by Tim Berners-Lee—widely credited as the leading figure in the creation of the internet—has raised about $30 million in Series A funding, TechCrunch reports. Forte Ventures led Inrupt's new round, the two said on Thursday, but both declined to disclose the size of the deal. The round saw participation from all existing investors, including Akamai Technologies and Glasswing Ventures, as well as new investors Allstate and the Minderoo Foundation's Frontier Technology Initiative. At Inrupt, Berners-Lee, the creator of the standards of the world wide web, and co-founder John Bruce are attempting to “reshape the internet” by building a platform that gives users control of their data. Miro, a visuals-based collaboration software maker, is seeking $17 billion in a new round of venture capital funding, Financial Times reports. The 10-year old startup describes itself as an online whiteboard platform for team collaboration. Miro's ‘infinite canvas' enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, and brainstorm ideas. Miro claims 25 million users worldwide, including more than 100,000 enterprise customers and 95 percent of the world's 100 biggest companies. Miro was founded by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin in 2011. Meanwhile, Pleo, a Danish startup that makes expense management tools aimed at SMBs, has raised $200 million in fresh funding that doubles its value to $4.7 billion, TechCrunch reports. Jeppe Rindom, Pleo's co-founder and CEO, said it will use the money for acquisitions, accelerating expansion to new markets, adding more functionality to its product. Pleo helps SMBs issue company cards and better manage how employees spend money. Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has been awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold Medal for 2022, Dezeen magazine reports. Awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and personally approved by the Queen, the Royal Gold Medal celebrates those who have shaped the "advancement of architecture”. Doshi was selected in recognition of his 70-year career and his influence on the direction of architecture in India.

In this episode host Emmett Scanlon talks to Sheila O Donnell, one of Ireland's most celebrated architects. With John Tuomey, Sheila has been running their practice O Donnell+Tuomey in Dublin for over 30 years. The practice have designed and built theatres, cinemans, primary schools, university buildings, libraries, student centres, bridges, art galleries - It is impossible to summarise there their achievement and influence on architecture culture and discourse in Ireland and around the world, and in 2015 the pair were awarded the Royal Gold Medal in London one of architecture's highest awards. The conversation with Sheila though was triggered by the death earlier this year of writer, cartographer and publishers Tim Robinson and Mairead Robinson who were based in Roundstone in Galway. Sheila and John were good friends of Mairead and Time and Sheila is now involved in the campaign to hold this house and its place for future use. During the conversation Sheila talks about the house as she had experienced it, what it was like, and from there the conversation moves to thinking about houses as dynamic, unfixed things, to Tim's own writing on the house, to working with old buildings, to theatre design, to how designing housing would be a pinnacle in Sheila's career and more. Sheila was intrigued though by the question of what it is that buildings do al day, and it is right there, that the conversation began. ___ O'Donnell + Tuomey is a studio-based practice, with offices in Dublin, Cork and London. Committed to the craft and culture of architecture, they have been involved with urban design, cultural, social and educational projects at home and abroad. The practice has an international reputation for its engagement with complex urban situations and sensitive landscapes. They have completed schools and university buildings, theatres and cinemas, community centres and social housing, art galleries and libraries in Ireland, the UK and on the European mainland. Winners of more than 120 awards, recent buildings include the Glucksman Gallery Cork, Timberyard Housing Dublin, Irish Language Centre Derry, Sean O'Casey Community Centre Dublin, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Photographers' Gallery London, LSE Student Centre and the Central European University Budapest. They have exhibited six times at the Venice Architecture Biennale, with installations which advance their research into the useful beauty and poetic purpose of architecture, exploring areas of overlap with other art forms. Sheila O'Donnell graduated from University College Dublin in 1976, when she moved to London. In 1980 she was awarded an MA in Environmental Design from the Royal College of Art London. She worked for Spence and Webster, Colquhoun and Miller and James Stirling before returning to Dublin to teach at UCD and set up her practice. She co-founded O'Donnell + Tuomey in 1988. She is a Practice Professor in Architecture at University College Dublin. She has taught and lectured at schools of Architecture in Europe, Japan and the USA, including the AA, Cambridge, Princeton and Harvard GSD. Her watercolours have been exhibited in the Royal Academy and the Royal Irish Academy. In 2009 she was elected a member of Aosdána, the affiliation of Irish artists. In 2015 she was joint recipient with John Tuomey of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Brunner Prize, both awarded in recognition of a lifetime's work. Sheila was named Architect of the Year at the 2019 Women in Architecture (WIA) Awards for her work on the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. ___ Music is by Sinead Finegan, played by the Delmaine String Quartet (Philip Dodd, leader). The podcast was recorded on Zoom.

生於伊拉克巴格達，伊拉克裔英國建築師，後來定居英國，原本沒沒無聞，但於2004年成為首位獲得普立茲克建築獎的女性建築師。2015年，她成為第一位且唯一位從英國皇家建築師學會獲得皇家金質獎章（Royal Gold Medal）的女性。倫敦衛報稱她為「曲線女王（Queen of the curve）」。紐約時報讚揚她：「解放了建築幾何學，並賦予它一種全新的表現形式。」

Roma, the black and white Mexican film about a young domestic worker in Mexico City in the 1970s, won Best Film at the Baftas on Sunday and is up for the same at the Oscars. The film's producer, Gabriela Rodriguez, talks about the background to director Alfonso Cuarón's personal project which draws on his own childhood, and discusses their working relationship. The death has been announced of the acclaimed author Andrea Levy. Her fiction, including the Orange Prize-winning Small Island and the Man Booker-longlisted and recently televised The Long Song, chronicled the experience of generations from the Caribbean who lived through slavery and emigration. Her friend and fellow writer Louise Doughty pays tribute. The architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw's buildings include the Eden Project, the International Terminal at Waterloo Station and the National Space Centre in Leicester. He is one of a group of architects including Terry Farrell, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster who became the leading architects of the late 20th century not just in Britain but around the world. He discusses his long career in the week that he's been awarded the 2019 Royal Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects.Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Sarah JohnsonMain image: Roma Photo credit: Netflix

Professor Sir Peter Cook received a knighthood for services to architecture and was awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architecture, yet he has never designed a building in Britain - until now. He shows us around the drawing studio he's created for the Arts University Bournemouth.In 1962, Francois Truffaut persuaded fellow film director Alfred Hitchcock to sit with him for a week-long interview in which they discussed the secrets of cinema. Hannah McGill reviews a new documentary about this meeting, which resulted in Truffaut's seminal book "Hitchcock/Truffaut".The Barbican is staging Shakespeare as we've never seen it before; each of his 36 plays have been condensed and are presented on a table top using a cast of everyday objects. Macbeth is a cheese grater, Pericles a light bulb and Hamlet's a bottle of ink. Tim Etchells from Forced Entertainment explains why.The Hepworth Wakefield gallery has announced details of one of the UK's largest bequests. It's one of the most significant gifts received from a private collector. Tim Sayer was a passionate collector, a self-confessed 'art-oholic', and a retired BBC Radio 4 newswriter. So how did he acquire such an important collection?Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Angie Nehring.

Architect Dame Zaha Hadid will receive the 2016 Royal Gold Medal from The Royal Institute of British Architects this week. She's the first woman to be awarded the prestigious honour in her own right. She talks to John Wilson about her work.John Irving, author of hugely popular novels including The World According to Garp and A Prayer for Owen Meany, discusses his latest book Avenue of Mysteries, an examination of miracles, damaged childhoods, the writer's life and the perils of the circus.Adrian Lester stars as Victorian actor Ira Aldridge in Red Velvet, the latest production from the Kenneth Branagh Company. In 1833 Aldridge became the first black actor to play Othello on the London stage when he was invited to take over from Edmund Kean. Playwright Gabriel Gbadamosi reviews.Pieter Bruegel the Elder is known for his highly-coloured, earthy and vivid depiction of rowdy peasants in 16th-century Netherlands. But he also painted religious works. For the first time his only three surviving grisaille paintings will be shown together at the Courtauld Gallery in London. Curator Karen Serres explains their significance.Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Angie Nehring.

Architects Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey of O'Donnell and Tuomey discuss their practice and ideas around Space and Architecture, having been presented with the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture this February, 2015

With John Wilson. Based on the bestselling novel by Markus Zusak, the film of The Book Thief - starring Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson - tells the story of a spirited young girl Liesel in World War II Germany. Liesel finds solace from the war by stealing books and sharing them with others. Novelist Meg Rosoff reviews. Professor Joseph Rykwert is one of the few critics to win the prestigious Royal Gold Medal for architecture for a body of work that includes the ground-breaking book The Idea Of a Town. Written in 1963, it warned of the problems of traffic congestion in cities and the rise of the high-rise building. He tells John if anything has improved over the last 50 years. The comedian and actress Isy Suttie, from the TV series Peep Show, discusses her new stage role in a 'musical fable' The A-Z of Mrs P, about Phyllis Pearsall, the woman who set out to map an entire city in 1936, resulting in the classic A-Z map of London. Two books of monologues for black actors have been published to provide young performers with a diverse range of speeches to use at auditions. The monologues are taken from the Black Play Archive and have been compiled by theatre producer Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway. She and actor Jimmy Akingbola explain why these books are needed and discuss whether there is a glass ceiling for black British actors. Producer : Dymphna Flynn.

Renzo Piano si è laureato al Politecnico di Milano, nel 1971 ha fondato a Londra lo studio Piano & Rogers in collaborazione con Richard Rogers, con cui ha vinto il concorso per la realizzazione del Centre Pompidou di Parigi, città nella quale si trasferì. Fino agli anni '90 ha collaborato con l’ingegnere Peter Rice, creando l’Atelier Piano & Rice, attivo dal 1977 al 1981, anno in cui ha costituito il Renzo Piano Building Workshop, ufficio che oggi riunisce circa 150 persone con sedi a Parigi, Genova e New York. Con loro ha realizzato progetti in tutto il mondo: la Menil Collection a Houston, il Terminal dell’Aeroporto Internazionale Kansai a Osaka, la Fondazione Beyeler a Basilea, il Centro Culturale Jean-Marie Tjibaou in Nuova Caledonia, Potsdamer Platz a Berlino, la riqualificazione del porto di Genova, l’Auditorium Parco della Musica a Roma, il Nasher Sculpture Centre a Dallas, l’ampliamento dell’High Museum of Art ad Atlanta e della Morgan Library a New York, la Maison Hermès a Tokyo, la sede del New York Times, la California Academy of Sciences a San Francisco, la riqualificazione del sito di Ronchamp, l’ampliamento dell’Art Institute of Chicago, dell’Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum a Boston e del Kimbell Art Museum a Fort Worth, la London Bridge Tower (The Shard) a Londra. Nella sua carriera ha ottenuto numerosi riconoscimenti. Tra gli altri, la “Royal Gold Medal” per l’architettura al RIBA nel 1989, il “Praemium Imperiale” a Tokyo nel 1995, il “Pritzker Architecture Prize” nel 1998 e la “AIA Gold Medal” dell’American Institute of Architect nel 2008. Dal 2004 è impegnato nella Fondazione Renzo Piano, organizzazione non-profit dedicata alla promozione della professione di architetto attraverso programmi educativi ed attività didattiche. La nuova sede è stata inaugurata a Genova, Punta Nave, nel giugno 2008. Il 4 Settembre 2013 è stato nominato Senatore a Vita dal Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano. A Milano è oggi impegnato nel progetto della Città della Salute, il polo pubblico di cura e ricerca che riunisce l’Istituto nazionale dei Tumori e L’istituto neurologico Carlo Besta, che sorgerà nelle aree ex Falck di Sesto San Giovanni.

Rem Koolhaas si è laureato in Architettura alla Architectural Association School of Architecture di Londra ha pubblicato il suo primo libro, Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, nel 1978. Nel 1981 ha fondato OMA, esperienza di lavoro collettiva attraverso cui ha dato una forte impronta teorica al suo lavoro che spazia in diverse aree oltre l’architettura, come media, politica, energie rinnovabili e moda. Nel 2000 ha vinto il Pritzker Architecture Prize che sancisce il prestigio del suo lungo percorso di ricerca e sperimentazione. Con Claudio Abbado, Ken Loach e Mario Merz, Rem Koolhaas ha vinto l’edizione 2003 del Praemium Imperiale, il prestigioso riconoscimento conferito dalla Japan Art Association e considerato il Nobel delle Arti. Nel 2010 si è aggiudicato il Leone d’oro alla carriera della Biennale di Architettura di Venezia e, nel 2012, la Royal Gold Medal del RIBA. È professore alla Harvard University ed è stato nominato curatore della 14a edizione della Biennale di Architettura di Venezia che si svolgerà nel 2014. Tra le sue opere architettoniche, la Borsa di Shenzhen, il Teatro Wyly di Dallas, la China Central Television Pechino, il Taipei Performing Arts Centre, la nuova ala del College of Architecture della Cornell University di New York, la sede della Rothschild Bank a Londra, il Guandgong Baosteel Building di Guangzhou e il Museo nazionale delle arti e delle scienze a Rabat in Marocco. A Milano OMA sta realizzando l’intervento di trasformazione di un ex edificio industriale nella zona sud della città creando la nuova sede della Fondazione Prada. Agli edifici esistenti si aggiungeranno un edificio dedicato alle esposizioni, un auditorium e una torre-museo.

With Mark Lawson Novelist Lionel Shriver reviews a major retrospective of Lucian Freud's work at the National Portrait Gallery, including his final, unfinished portrait, which is on show for the first time. Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger believes passionately that architecture can help bring people together. The Royal Institute of British Architects has just awarded him the 2012 Royal Gold Medal, given in recognition of a lifetime's work. He tells Mark why he thinks a recession is good for architects. Stephen Daldry made history when he received a best director Oscar nomination for his first three films - Billy Elliot, The Hours and The Reader. His latest film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close deals with loss and grief in the aftermath of 9/11. He reflects on why it has divided critics. Producer Ellie Bury.