All Review articles – Page 27
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ReviewArchitecture in Uniform: Designing & Building for the Second World War
The story of architects in the second world war has some surprising twists
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ReviewCultural Guide: August 22- 28
This week’s cultural guide proves the pen is mightier than the sword with a number of forays into hand-rendered architectural drawings
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ReviewAi Weiwei’s Blog, Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009
Ai Weiwei’s compelling blog shows the tensions between the internet and a totalitarian state.
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ReviewCultural Guide: August 15- 21
This week’s cultural guide travels to Edinburgh to listen to Malcolm Fraser’s insight into the future of this literary landscape, amongst other treats.
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ReviewKenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern
An impressive Design Museum retrospective shows how Kenneth Grange designed all the things you never really thought about.
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ReviewCultural guide: August 8- 14
This week’s cultural highlights include taking a guess at the future of the architect in the crypt of Sir John Soane’s One Marylebone
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ReviewThe Secret Life of Buildings
Tom Dyckhoff explores how design can have measureable effects on our lives in Channel 4’s new series.
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ReviewMild dissatisfaction against the machine
A new architectural fanzine lacks the punk spirit of its defiant forerunners, writes Sean Griffiths
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ReviewThomas Struth at the Whitechapel Gallery
A retrospective of the photographer’s work reveals the multivalency of his art.
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ReviewCultural Guide: July 25- 31
This week’s cultural guide visits the moon- early soviet style before learning about the ’most wondrous matter on earth’ at the Barbican
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ReviewStudio In The Woods 2011
Last weekend – while muggles all over the land flocked to cinemas to see the final Harry Potter film – on a little Isle (of Wight) a short swim away, gathered 60 magical architecture creatures for their annual timber-play ritual
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ReviewCultural Guide- July 18-24
This week’s cultural guide opens with an appointment with the Tate Modern’s turbine hall before taking a leisurely trip around the inland waterways of the Midlands.
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ReviewA German solution to the challenges facing the NHS
BookConstruction and Design Manual: Medical Practices by Dorte Becker and Philip MeuserDom Publishers, HB, 400 pages, 2010, £59.55In Germany, with the privatisation of healthcare, the role of the doctor has changed in recent years to become that of “health adviser”. With this change “clients” (the new term for patients) have ...
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ReviewShould future hospitals be small towns?
A work surveying the design of contemporary healthcare facilities posits hospitals as civic spaces but misses a few key examples
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ReviewDiener & Diener monograph
A monograph showcasing 40 of the Swiss practice’s works attests to its urban engagement
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ReviewLa Spezia hospital by Hopkins Architects
Associate partner Laura Carrara-Cagni on the practice’s designs for a new hospital at La Spezia in the Liguria region of Italy.
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ReviewGreat Scott! A Gothic reputation is revived
Next week sees the 200th anniversary of George Gilbert Scott’s birth and, with his masterpiece the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras restored, the architect is once more receiving the appreciation he deserves.
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ReviewOpening up the envelope for students
Watts’ new book is well suited for both students and young practicing architects.
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ReviewGetting right under the skin of modern construction materials
Extensive look at new materials in this Detail edition of the Construction Manual for Polymers & Membranes.