Kester Rattenbury
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A great little cover-up
This riveting show of little magazines reveals a time of independence and challenge, says Kester Rattenbury
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Mind-expanding trip to the frontier
Cecil Balmond has made hugely complex ideas rewardingly accessible
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Wembley team disappoints fans
Norman Foster and Rod Sheard did not capitalise on a sure-fire scoring opportunity.
- Building Study
Laboratory of the senses
The collaborating artist and architect arrived at their winning Serpentine Pavilion design by talking abstractly about ideas. But if that is too demanding, just enjoy the beautiful result, advises Kester Rattenbury
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A display of joie de vivre
Patrick Bouchain’s exhibition of three ingenious and diverse projects is fantastic
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Playing the computer game
Gianni Botsford’s flexible use of computer modelling reveals him as one who bucks architects’ usual traps.
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Reflections of a model citizen
Kester Rattenbury is simultaneously charmed and scared by Kas Oosterhuis’s ‘swarm’ architecture
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Sint Lucas Art Academy, Netherlands by Fat
Kester Rattenbury enjoys Fat’s reworking of a Dutch art school, but wonders whether the practice’s quirkiness is a cover for something more serious.
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Bob bows out with Barthes
The profession came to pay tribute as Maxwell’s last lecture posed the audience some challenging questions.
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Engaging with difficult territory
Sauerbruch Hutton’s ambitious lecture posed more questions than it answered.
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The hero triumphs
A new film about Frank Gehry portrays his genius in imaginative, revealing and often hilarious ways, says Kester Rattenbury
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Plenty to bow about
Ryue Nishizawa stopped running away long enough to dazzle a sell-out crowd.
- Opinion
Our chance to make the Stirling stirring
Modern life amazes me. In a world of infinite viewing options, a million people watched the Stirling Prize Live, on Channel 4 last Saturday night.
- Building Study
Theatre in the round
John McAslan & Partners' revamp of the Roundhouse retains the building's essential drama as a venue while giving it a new lease of life
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The architecture of yearning
Is Alain de Botton making the same arguments as Prince Charles 20 years ago
- News
Viva Havana
With developers poised to swoop down on Cuba, what will become of Havana’s architecture? Kester Rattenbury says western models of redevelopment may destroy this extraordinary cultural marvel
- Building Study
All the best moves
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects' studios for the Siobhan Davies Dance Company has a synergy with the human body that has delighted the client.
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From crisis to comfort zone
The Cambridge School exhibition is an unquestioning celebration of its influence.
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On the Nordic trail
A new show promotes Norway’s architecture, but it is the architects that really sell it.