All articles by Katherine Hayes – Page 8
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- March 22 to March 28
Find out why London's low on 'liveability' and what can be done about and also drop into the Architecture Foundation to learn how to become an architectural smooth talker in this week's cultural guide
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week: March 15 to March 19
Take an architectural tour of the square mile or dip your toes into a little bit of Romanian cinema, and if that doesn't spark your creative taste buds, perhaps it's time to learn a little about the authority of an architect with Niall McLaughlin.
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FeaturesPolyark this week: The Great Central Railway, Zoetropes and Strathclyde University
Christopher Vansittart's album 'Polyark Mapping' was one of the images that caught Polyark's watchful eye this week, with his group work exploring the great central railway from Leicester to Loughborough.
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week: March 8 to March14
This week's cultural guide takes you on a tour of post-colonial Bamako in Mali, and to the edges of space with John Tunnard's abstract painting, before landing squarely back in London with Tristram Hunt's lecture on Trafalgar Square
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FeaturesPolyark this week: A Birmingham glass works project and a new embassy concept for Rome
This week Polyark makes a visit to Chance Glass factory on the outskirts and Birmingham and also rethinks the concept of an embassy into a one-stop shop of culture.
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FeaturesPolyark this week: Curzon Street Station, dystopian London and iconic architecture
This week's Polyark update sees a photographic tour of the Polyark II exhibition that opened last week at Strathclyde University, a dystopic vision of London and a discussion on what makes an icon.
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ReviewBD's Guide to your cultural week- March 1 to March 7
There's a whole lot of legacy in this week's cultural guide with the Architecture Foundation zooming in the Olympics. But for the more lethargic cultural athlete, why not sample a taste of American glamour in mid-century modern architecture with the Royal College?
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NewsPolyark this week: Parasites, Edinburgh trains and architectural heroes
One thing that caught our eye this week was Ralph Furulund's Eco House competition submission entitled "The Eco-Parasite". Rather than the hapless host being we humans, the victims this time are environmentally unsound or derelict buildings.
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- February 22 to February 28
Zebra finches storm the charts or perhaps just the Barbican with the Curve gallery's latest incarnation. Also on the menu this week are talks on Westminster, the US Embassy and the Commonwealth Institute amongst others.
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FeaturesPolyark this week: A Polyark themed ceilidh, Hammersmith surgery visit and Modernism- dead or alive?
Students go head to head over modernism, don their kilts for a Polyark ceilidh and put a house call into Hammersmith surgery, in this week's Polyark update
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NewsBD's guide to your cultural week February 15 to February 21
The writing's on the wall, well, it is with the Henry Moore Institute's latest pencil to wall installation. If that doesn't spark your cultural plugs, why not drop in Ron Arad's first major exhibition at the Barbican, in this week's cultural guide
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- February 8 to February 14
Fancy listening? Then this week tune into one of the numerous talks and lectures going on, from David Adjaye on I.M Pei at the RIBA, Gene Kohn at the NLA or Mao at the RCA.
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NewsPolyark this week:The Great Central Railway, Strathclyde and Valencia
In every Monday's newsletter we will be keeping you regularly updated with the highlights of what happening on Polyark, the newly launched student networking site.
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- February 1 to February 7
This week's cultural guide has an international flavour, with the London Met showcasing four up-and-coming Flemish practices in their lecture series plus the Architecture Foundation's international exchange programme's focus falls on Istanbul.
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ReviewBD's Guide to your cultural week- January 25 to January 31
There is much to tickle your cultural taste buds this week with Nigel Coates baring all, a guided tour around the finer points of Czechoslovakian architectural heritage with Eva Jiricna and a fresh look at the famed Pevsner guides with their respective authors.
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- January 18 to January 24
Take a bird's eye view of London from the confines of the Balfron tower or join the debate on an influential Italian renaissance figure who may have been more famous for the shape of his nose than his arts patronage, in this week's cultural guide
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- January 11 to January 17
Meet a crop of up and coming Norwegian firms at the Architecture Foundation, or delve into the history of modernism as we know it with the first in a series of exhibitions on modern times at Kettles' Yard
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NewsBD's guide to your cultural New Year
In this week's cultural guide the V&A team up with the RIBA to bring you Gargoyles and Shadows, and no, we're not talking about past presidents here: it's an exploration of the influence of photography on the gothic revival. If that doesn't spark your interest then toddle along to the ...
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Blogs
I'm still standing (temporarily)
In a joint venture Malcolm Crayton of FORM Design Architecture and architect Duncan Mitchell have designed a 450 m2 ‘pop up’ shop, for London’s Covent Garden.
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Blogs
Changing rooms
Forget flock wallpaper, humble algae could become the hottest wallcovering of the future if studioJonandNina have anything to do with it.'The Algae Room' was on show during Tokyo Designers Week and in it visitors were asked to sit back and bask in the cool green glow of fermenting algae, chomp ...