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Archive TitlesSurface Architecture
Surface ArchitectureDavid LeatherbarrowMIT Press£27.50We are all familiar with the notion that the history of Western architecture has involved a shift from buildings that use heavy, static and opaque exterior walls, to ones that rely increasingly for their protection on thin, lightweight and translucent or transparent cladding. Many new forms of ...
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Archive TitlesThe New Paradigm in Architecture
Charles Jencks is the greatest living architectural philologist.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor is in the final stages of creating a vast sculpture that will fill the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. For this, the third in the Unilever series, he is working with structural engineer Cecil Balmond.
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Archive TitlesAll mapped out
The technology used to map the nation is now being bundled into workable solutions for design professionals and the wider public – with varying degrees of success.
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Archive TitlesAcquired taste
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris' redesign of the Barbican's Waterside Cafe unashamedly strips away the layers of a previous refit, taking its cue from the iconic building's original grid to create an elegant dining space.
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Archive TitlesUpstart: Aaron Betsky on why architects must dig deep
It is time to start building with the land instead of on it.
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Archive TitlesAHMM unveils £12.25m friendly facelift for Barbican foyers
£12.25m may seem like a lot of money to spend on two foyers, but the entrance halls at London’s Barbican Centre are having rather more than a lick of paint and some new signage.
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Archive TitlesUncharted territory
In the shadow of the Great Wall of China, a group of Asian architects has created the most radical housing ever seen in the People's Republic. We visit the site and pick the three best houses.
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Archive TitlesStar turn
Audiences are going to love Willem Jan Neutelings' cultural centre in Leuven. From its atmospheric public spaces to its astonishing main auditorium, it is a bravura performance.
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Archive TitlesTalking shop
Young practice Blauraum wanted more in its office than desks. Here's how it turned a Hamburg shop into a base that doubles as a public forum for architecture.
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Archive TitlesPlaying soldiers
As far as arts clients are concerned, Daniel Libeskind is the new Frank Gehry. But does his fractal, shimmering Imperial War Museum North say anything meaningful about conflict, or the English city in which it stands?
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Archive TitlesSize matters
Stephan Braunfels has completed one of the world’s largest museums for 19th- and 20th-century art. The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich has a total exhibition area of 12,000m2, which will house visual art, graphic art and design, as well as the largest special collection on architecture in Germany. The museum ...
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Archive TitlesLibeskind stages Messiaen's opera
Daniel Libeskind staged a rare French opera at the Deutsche Opera this summer.
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Archive TitlesA walk on the left-hand side
Whenever, in the post-war era, the left came to power in Northern Europe, France or Britain, their professed programme seemed to shrink to the simple issue of getting and spending, the end of which was the 'bourgeoisification' of the proletariat.
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NYC mayor to triple housing for homeless
Bloomberg unveils plan to house almost 10,000 families a year.
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Archive TitlesTop US school scraps Holl scheme
Architect cites lack of 'chemistry' as cause of split after two years of design work for Cornell University.
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No limits for Frankfurt plan
Seven international architects have been shortlisted for a mixed-use project with no height restrictions in Frankfurt.
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Great leap forward?
It is difficult not to feel a tingle of ambivalence at the news that the first phase of the long-awaited Commune by the Great Wall – a luxury housing development built in the shadow of China's longest monument – has been completed
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Archive TitlesA millionaire's fantasy
Discovers a snapshot of architectural history at MoMA's new outpost in Queens. The Changing of the Avant-Garde showcases the visionary drawings of a group of postmodern architects collected in the late 1970s by millionaire Howard Gilman.
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Twin towers inquiry extended
US$16m project will ascertain why the towers collapsed and how disasters of its kind can be avoided in the future.