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All Archive Titles articles – Page 27
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I’ve always found bricks, mortar and concrete a little ‘last century’, but happily all those tedious real-world materials are superfluous in Second Life, the immense online world or ‘metaverse’ where designers, architects and businesses while away their actual lives by living in silicon.
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Archive TitlesNecropolis now
London practice mæ has a special interest in the architecture of burial, so it’s fitting that its first civic commission is a cemetery in North Hertfordshire. By Hugh Pearman. Photographs: Michele Panzeri
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Worsley memoriam
Architectural historian Giles Worsley, who died of cancer last year at the age of only 44, is to be commemorated by a travel fellowship set up by his wife Joanna Pitman.
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Archive TitlesModern masterpiece seeks tenants
Fancy taking on a listed modern masterpiece? You can: the National Trust wants appreciative tenants for Patrick Gwynne’s masterly, restored Surrey house The Homewood. This sprawling 1938 family home, set in acres of woodland, was lived in by Gwynne up to his death in 2003.
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Archive TitlesLetter from... Walsingham
Chris Cowper of Cowper Griffith feels the weight of history in designing a centre for pilgrims in Norfolk
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Archive TitlesJakobs ladder
In its new synagogue in Munich, Wandel Hoefer Lorch reconciles the traditions of the Jewish faith with the needs of today’s more liberal worshippers. By Grant Gibson. Photographs: Rolande Halbe
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Archive TitlesThe other Pugins: saving Gorton Monastery
The one we all know was Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, he of Palace of Westminster fame, whose house in Ramsgate, The Grange, has recently been beautifully restored by the Landmark Trust.
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God only knows
Burgeoning faiths don’t care about aesthetic heritage. They don’t need to. That’s left to the poor old failing ones.
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Archive TitlesWhat is...Architecture sans Frontières?
A loose international federation of ‘informal, independent and non-hierarchical organisations’ concerned with improving the environments of developing nations, that’s what. It is behind the latest exhibition at the RIBA in Portland Place, Fragile Seams: Life on the Edge, which fills the Florence Hall with story-telling temporary structures of timber and ...
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A matter of faith
If the church, the pub and the village green used to define English rural life, Nonconformist chapels traced the characters of many an industrial town, synagogues sprang up to serve displaced communities, and the spread of urban mosques and mandirs indicated the aftermath of Empire, then we await with interest ...
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Archive TitlesEye of the storm
Just as well Mangera Yvars isn’t easily fazed. Their proposal for a mega-mosque on the London Olympics site is causing all kinds of controversy.
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Archive TitlesEuropean union
Giles Worsley sets Inigo Jones’s work in its European context and sheds new light on its influences
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Archive TitlesSoul-searching cities
Modern multicultural cities still need spiritual sanctuaries accessible to all. Architects can best provide these by focusing on enhancing people’s lives rather than so-called iconic buildings.
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Archive TitlesPod cast
Fire-resistant steel is key to Kisho Kurokawa’s plans to renew the modules of his 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower while its concrete cores remain.
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Archive TitlesCall to prayers
The cross-currents between British and Islamic architecture have proved fecund. In the 19th century one thinks of the Mughal-inspired forms of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton or Owen Jones’s fascination with the Alhambra and Islamic decoration.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Pittsburgh isn’t the most obvious place for an exhibition devoted to British practices. But Raymund Ryan, curator of Gritty Brits (until 3 June at the Heinz Architectural Center), tells Grant Gibson it makes perfect sense…
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Off the wall
Surreal Things:Surreal and Design Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 29 March to 22 July, Review by Grant Gibson
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Archive TitlesSuffolk punch
London practice Project Orange knew it had its work cut out attempting a modern house in Tudor Lavenham, but, by George, they’ve done it.