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Archive TitlesStable companions
Brighton Dome and Museum must be the only arts centre originally built to house the horses and the mistress of a prince. How did Arts Team's renovation respect its history while creating a modern cultural complex?
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Colour White
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex Until 7 Julywww.de-la-warr-pavilion.org.uk
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Discreet charm
Unlike the architects of Manchester's other new museums, Michael Hopkins and Partners didn't have the luxury of a blank canvas. Its additions to the city art gallery had to be a little more polite
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Archive TitlesUpstart: Meet Richard Parnaby, Wales' new design champion
Wales is the probably the last place you would look for the best in architecture or urban design.
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Time to cell up
Until recently, solar panels sat on the top of buildings looking either ostentatious or just plain stupid. Now, with the government dishing out grants and new products raising the profile of photovoltaic design, architects are waking up to the beauty of solar power
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Brief encounter: Young Europeans
Last month, young designers gathered at the European Architects' Forum in Oporto to discuss the political and ethical dimensions of their work.
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Archive TitlesWhite blood cell
When your most famous work is a head filled with frozen blood, your studio can't be a mouldy garret. Here's how Proctor Matthews created a highly serviced, all-white space for Marc Quinn.
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Archive TitlesThis won't hurt a bit
Few small architects have got their teeth into healthcare design but, on a limited budget, Studio Azzurro has created a fun-filled, friendly dental practice that goes some way to counter the dread of the drill. We goe for a check-up.
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Between two schools
Nicholas Hare's Chafford Hundred Campus unites two Essex schools and serves as a hub for the community. But can it appeal to adults and children at the same time?
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Alms and the man
George Devey was one of the first to photograph his own work and the work of other, much earlier, architects. He used these records to help concoct a style of architecture that mixed different styles and dates
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Archive TitlesThe vanishing act
When the manager of Manchester band New Order asked Andrew Wallace to design an extension for her suburban house, he built something so invisible people just couldn't stop looking at it.
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A cut above
Gordon and Ursula Bowyer designed this sleek New York salon for Vidal Sassoon. Their client, a fan of modern architecture, saw himself as 'a sort of Mies van der Rohe of hairdressing'
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Archive TitlesSliver
Take a New York site just 7.6m wide, add an architect best known for radical theory and what do you get? A stunning steel and glass blade, a range of cultural spaces – and a big boost to Austria's reputation
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Saddam wants Olympics in Iraq
Saddam Hussein is formulating an audacious bid for the 2012 Olympic Games, and is calling for tenders from Western consultants to build an athletes' village in Baghdad
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Archive TitlesThe modest hero
When Glenn Murcutt won this year's Pritzker Prize, the international press struggled to explain why a man best known for humble houses had picked up architecture's glitziest lifetime award. World Architecture explains how he earned it and why he is inspiring architects on the other side of the world
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Work and play in Frankfurt
Tower One by Jean Nouvel is to be the first phase of an urban entertainment centre beside Frankfurt's trade fair site. It will be a 210m high glass office building with 51 floors and a sky lobby, surrounded by performing art venues, hotel, shops, offices and restaurants. Tower One is ...
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Archive TitlesThe forgotten man
Jean Prouvé is still a favourite among architects, but the rest of the world needs reminding that he designed some of the last century's best furniture. By reissuing key pieces, Vitra hopes to do just that.
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Rem flies the flag
Rem Koolhaas has designed a graphic identity for the European Union – including ideas for a new flag – in an attempt to make the EU capital Brussels seem less remote to the rest of Europe. Koolhaas' work was part of a report produced by a group led by author ...
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Archive TitlesRevisiting Fascist Italy
Stunningly illustrated and whimsical, the essays in this book discuss 74 Fascist-era new towns built in Italy and its African colonies.
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EU to rebuild tower houses in Kosovo
The European Agency for Reconstruction, the EU organisation funding the rehabilitation of Balkan war zones, is spending €550,000 (US$504,000) rebuilding five traditional tower houses in Kosovo