All Review articles – Page 108

  • Flood, by UK designers Michael Cross and Julie Mathias.
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    A thin slice of Europe

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Use of new technology proves the highlight of a show on European design

  • Study in Scarlet: El Greco’s Saint Jerome.
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    El Greco and Me

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Every time I am in New York, I make the trip uptown to the Frick Collection at 1 East 70th Street. New York City’s smaller museums such as the Frick and the Morgan Library are an amusement and a delight and contain the personal collections of some of America’s robber ...

  • Production designer Nathan Crowley wanted to create a more believable city.
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    Gotham isnt gothic anymore

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    A new type of city provides the backdrop to the latest Batman movie

  • Summerhouse on the banks of the Volga, self-built from junk and reassembled each year.
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    Water, water everywhere

    2005-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Rotterdam’s biennale focuses on flooding

  • Peter Cook, offering non-architectural experts a glittering Aladdin’s cave of an exhibition
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    Cook’s eclectic summer menu

    2005-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Peter Cook, architecture curator at the Royal Academy’s summer show

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    Architecture Week - highlights

    2005-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Gingerbread houses, tours of pubs, designer bird boxes— this year’s Architecture Week brings the usual lively concoction of events often only loosely associated with architecture.

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    Jimi Hendrix and me

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    It was either 1966 or 1967: In our uniform of army surplus great coats — the renegade troopers of the Bury St Edmunds counter-culture — we folded ourselves into Roderick’s mum’s Hillman Imp and made our way through the market towns of mid-Suffolk, laconic conversation accented by the sucking of ...

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    Heres one I prepared earlier

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    A new book vents frustration at architects’ lack of vision for prefabricated housing

  • Louise Bourgeois’ The Red Room, (Child), 1994, demonstrates how we see spaces as meaningful
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    Hue and cry

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    The crowd-pullers at the Barbican’s After Klein show disappoint, but it is the less familiar that add the real colour

  • Design for a Weekend Bungalow, 1938,  by Christopher Nicolson.
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    Up the garden path

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    A V&A/RIBA exhibition of landscape design is worryingly inaccessible

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    On the bookshelf

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    The New Boutique Fashion and Design, by Neil Bingham. Merrell, £29.95.A glossy look at leading fashion boutiques across the world as designed by the likes of OMA, Future Systems, Marcel Wanders, Ron Arad and Claudio Silvestrin. Pictured : Prada Epicentre by OMA, Tokyo.From William Morris: Building Conservation and the Arts ...

  • End of the Twentieth Century, by Joseph Beuys, was displayed in Tate Modern earlier this year as part of an exhibition of the artist’s work
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    Joseph Beuys and me

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Whether contemporary artist Joseph Beuys produced a sculpture or a portrait, his work was never static. His appeal to me is that his work represents change.

  • Cars, by Edgar Martins. He took the photograph after watching a group of youths set fire to it after a joyride. He was more interested in the aftermath of the event.
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    The spaces in between

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Charlie Gates finds eerie beauty in Edgar Martins’ gritty photographs

  • Adjaye’s Lost House in London’s Kings’ Cross.
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    Living up to the hype

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Despite first impressions, Richard Weston finds evidence of a major talent in this David Adjaye

  • The “triple Julia” crop circle created at Avebury, Wiltshire, on July 26 1996. Within two hours, 194 circles appeared spread across a 300m-long area.
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    Crop circles and me

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Crop circles are a cultural highpoint of artistic expression in rural England that rival anything in Tate Modern.

  • Echoes of Colonial Cuba, 2005 — “It encapsulates the experience I had in parts of Cuba.”
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    From cad to canvas

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Ellen Bennett talks to architect-turned-artist Christopher Firmstone

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    The life aquatic

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Water House (by Felix Flesche and Christian Burchard, Prestel, PB, £25) is a great chance to indulge all manner of marine utopian fantasies.

  • Hugh Ferriss’s 1945 drawing of  New York’s Municipal Asphalt Plant.
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    Sketchy strategy

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Thomas Muirhead on an eclectic collection of architectural drawings

  • Davide Bertocchi’s animation of a curved-to-fit limo spiralling down the Guggenheim New York is described by the curators as the “ultimate locus for site-specific artists”.
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    Power struggle

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    The influence of architectural spaces on exhibitions within them is examined at an AA exhibition

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    David Lynch and me

    2005-05-13T00:00:00Z

    What I find interesting about film director David Lynch is the fact he operates on two levels.