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Archigram’s “Walking city” Concept The Walking City was an idea proposed by British architect Ron Herron in 1964. In an article in avant-garde architecture journal Archigram, Ron Herron proposed building massive mobile robotic structures, with their own intelligence, that could freely roam the world, moving to wherever their resources or manufacturing abilities were needed. Various walking cities could interconnect with each other to form larger 'walking metropolises' when needed, and then…

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M+ announced ‘Archigram Cities’, a series of online and offline events in November 2020 organised in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong and Power Station of Art in Shanghai. In 2019, the Archigram archive entered the collections of M+. Through its dense layering of infrastructure, media, and commerce, Hong Kong can be read as an ‘Archigram city’, and the archive’s presence there offers the potential to trace new, situated lines of inquiry in…

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The World Architecture Community has enabled architects around the globe to share, collaborate and showcase their work since 2006. The renowned WA Awards competition, which showcases the projects of our community members runs three times a year.

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Peter Cook, Dennis Compton, Colin Fournier, David Greene with Ken Allison. Engineered by Frank Whitby. It seems that Ron Herron worked on the competition albeit whilst he was in America and consequently on the unbuilt scheme. This was a limited competition for an entertainment building on the reclaimed foreshore of Monte Carlo. Archigram reached the final stage and came very close to building in the sun. The Brief required a multi-purpose space to cater for a large banquet, variety shows, a…

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