All Review articles – Page 34
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ReviewCultural Guide: November 22- 28
This week’s cultural guide takes a photographic tour of rural Norfolk before getting into the nitty gritty of a major museum overhaul at the V&A.
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ReviewPatrick Keiller’s Robinson in Ruins
Keiller’s third film brings a darker edge to the dreamy imagery familiar from London and Robinson in Space
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ReviewAre temporary pop-up shops good for retail design?
Our experts say pop-ups encourage creativity and versatility in the design of shops that could influence major stores.
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ReviewCemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens
A new book charts Lutyens and Baker’s designs to honour the first world war dead
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ReviewRecent books on retail architecture
This month’s selection from RIBA Bookshops looks at how shop design entices consumers to spend.
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ReviewBuilding a Library 36: Los Angeles the Architecture of Four Ecologies, by Reyner Banham
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewFrank Watson: The Back of Beyond
BD gets a sneak preview of Frank Watson’s photographic and video journey through England’s crumbling cold war military remnants, the Thames Gateway and the Isles of Grain.
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ReviewCultural Guide: November 15- 21
This week’s cultural guide says a final farewell to the Heygate estate before brushing up on the finer points of German expressionist architecture
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ReviewThe Museum of the Order of St John
This tiny London museum for the knights of St John puts bigger spaces to shame
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ReviewArseniusz Romanowicz at Warsaw’s Powisle Station
A display of Polish architect Arseniusz Romanowicz’s railway stations challenges all you know about Soviet design
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ReviewBuilding a Library 35: Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewRip it Up #5: The Troublemakers - independent practice and its targets
London Met’s Rip it Up lecture series began with a question - where are all the young troublemakers and what they were doing. Well here they are, and the answer is quite a lot.
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ReviewCultural Guide: November 8-14
This week’s cultural guide brushes up on a little Kafka before debating the architectural finery of Westminster Abbey.
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ReviewCook’s Camden: London’s Great Experiment in Social Housing
Camden’s 1960s social housing schemes are a timely lesson in successful experimentation
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ReviewBuilding a Library 34: Mechanization Takes Command by Siegfried Giedion
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewCultural Guide- November 1-7
This week’s cultural guide follows Owen Luder on his last visit to Gateshead’s most famous carpark, in the premiere of a film dedicated to the architect; before showing a childlike side with the Institute of Play at the V&A Museum of Childhood.
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ReviewThis Is Tomorrow
The Whitechapel Gallery’s revisit to its seminal 1956 exhibition adds weight to ephemera
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ReviewThis Is Not A Gateway
This forum on the future of cities voiced anger at the erosion of public space
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ReviewBuilding a Library 33: The Penguin Guide to Ancient Egypt
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewCultural Guide: Oct 25-31
This week’s cultural guide discovers what’s next for Britain’s great historic houses before being chilled with Alfred Hitchcock, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican.