Culture – Page 6
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Features
Can you design one of the world’s most famous buildings and be forgotten?
You’ve slaved for years over window details before finally getting to work on the project your grandchildren will talk about. But will anyone else remember you as they take a selfie in front of it? Eternal fame is far from guaranteed, cautions Jonathan Glancey
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Features
From the spoon to the city: Richard Rogers on Alvar Aalto
In his introduction to a new book on Aalto, Richard Rogers hails the Finnish architect’s sensitivity to detail at every level
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Review
Sacred Geometries: An exhibition in search of an angle
Richard Gatti reviews a show where architectural photographers are cast as high priests, but finds them more interested in shapes than symbolism
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Features
How business park architecture has traduced London's skyline
In this extract from his new book, Jonathan Glancey accuses leading architects of souring world-class views with a grubby provincialism
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Review
Communal spaces are essential to a city's resilience. But they are under attack from our consumer and surveillance society
Mark Pimlott’s latest book on the concept of the public interior is fascinating – and practice-altering, finds Nicholas de Klerk
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Features
Should we be celebrating or lamenting Glasgow's 'renaissance'?
Glasgow once built more tower blocks than any city in Britain. In a demolition programme of similar ambition, a third have have been lost in the last decade. It’s time to reappraise the whole enterprise, says Johnny Rodger, co-author of a new book on the subject
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Review
Book Club review: How to Read Towns & Cities
An appealing idea doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, finds Zac Carey
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Review
Book Club Review: Studio Craft & Technique for Architects
Every architect will find this handy guide to practical skills useful, says Matthew Elsinor
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Features
The tragic myth of Scotland's modernist masterpiece
As a ruin, Gillespie, Kidd Coia’s Cardross Seminary has become a cult object. But the folklore obscures a much richer story, argues the author of a definitive new book
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Features
Two years after Patty Hopkins ‘vanished’, women are still being airbrushed out of architecture
The issues raised by a new and wide-ranging exploration of gender in the profession are as relevant to men as they are to women, explains co-editor James Benedict Brown
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Review
Book Club review: Big Saves: Heroic transformations of great landmarks
Benjamin Fallows thinks this book’s ‘pamphlety’ delivery obscures its important message on conservation
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Features
Behind the scenes at London Bridge Station – with the architect
It’s probably Britain’s most notorious station, but Grimshaw partner Mark Middleton thinks thoughtful procurement has given London Bridge Station a bright future
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Review
Why can’t architects write in a language normal people can understand?
A good book on a great architect is let down by its impenetrable prose, laments Balazs Endrodi
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Review
New titles to review in BD's summer architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of 10 new titles
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Review
Book Club review: Form Heft Material
The literal and figurative journeys that have brought David Adjaye to the eve of the opening of his Smithsonian are traced in this thematic collection
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Review
Book Club review: Architectural Agents
Can buildings kill, maim and trigger addiction? And if so could they also be designed to have a positive effect on users?
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Perfecting a language of architecture that the 99% can understand
If everyone is an architect, how come language is such a barrier, asks Daniel Elsea
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Review
A distressing history of cultural genocide
From ‘Bomber’ Harris to Isis, this new documentary, The Destruction of Memory, takes an even-handed approach to its appraisal of vandals, says Richard Gatti
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Review
What does architecture mean in places like Syria and the Calais Jungle?
Joanna Day is impressed by the Architecture Foundation’s refugee festival
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Inspirations
Book review and competition: 50 Architects 50 Buildings - The buildings that inspire architects
BD’s long-running Architects’ Inspirations series is one of the magazine’s best-loved features. Now the twentieth-century buildings have been brought together for the first time in a new book. Paul McGrath takes a look.