All Review articles – Page 111
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Situation abnormal
Thomas Muirhead enjoys a new book on situationism and discusses how the movement remains pertinent to architects
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ReviewLasting resorts
Like many architects, Morris Lapidus, US designer of huge resort hotels, had to wait until after he’d died for critical reappraisal
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ReviewFind your way there
Better known for his geodesic domes, Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion World Map was an attempt to present the world in a less distorted form with a stronger sense of the world as one land mass.
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Talking up China
Tom Levitt heard OMA director Ole Scheeren tell the AA about his practice’s CCTV building.
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ReviewFats best friend
The houses we designed at New Islington in Manchester were inspired by the way the tenants had transformed their existing homes.
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ReviewDial-a-building
Some people are horrified and some amused by the inspiration for our Liverpool project (a conference centre and arena at King’s Dock), which is my mobile phone — a Motorola V600.The design aesthetic of the mobile phone is highly relevant today because nearly everybody has one and they are now ...
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ReviewCommon thread to the Swiss role
Ellis Woodman learns about the particular influence of the ETH school in Zurich
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ReviewModernism up against the wall
Post-war modernist architecture is the inspiration for artist Toby Paterson, writes Johnny Rodger
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ReviewHubris over Manhattan
Once the tallest office building in the world, New York’s Pan Am Building is a ‘micro-history’ of the decline of the modernist movement
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Animated response
Charlie Gates on an exhibition of films by Bartlett students that hopes to inspire presentations
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ReviewSoanes sculptor
His influential work moved bystanders to tears and was the first contemporary sculpture that John Soane collected.
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Nature intervenes
Richard Holder reads how Darwinism and botanical discoveries affected the 19th century built environment
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ReviewA city warped by celluloid
Chris Hall sees a documentary examining the way Los Angeles portrays itself in its movies