All Review articles – Page 61

  • Furniture from Unite d’Habitation.
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    Le Corbusier worship in Liverpool

    2008-10-10T00:00:00Z

    A heavenly abundance of Le Corbusier material is on display in the Lutyens’ crypt of Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral

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    Celebrating Osbert Lancaster, a past master of all trades

    2008-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Trying to encompass all the facets of Osbert Lancaster’s career into one exhibition may seem like a losing game.

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    Social snapper

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    John Maltby’s first commission to photograph Odeon cinemas in the thirties began a career that embraced work for architects, manufacturers and designers, among them Tecton, the Design Research Unit and Terence Conran.

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    Saatchi reopens

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The new-look 6,500sq m Saatchi Gallery, by Stirling Prize nominee Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, opens next week with an exhibition of new art from China.

  • Saltdean Lido by Richard William Herbert Jones, 1938.
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    Unbuilt greats

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Unrealised designs by leading architects for projects in London are on show at the AA.

  • From left to right: Reyner Banham, Nikolaus Pevsner and John Summerson at the RIBA, 1961.
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    Past, present and future

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Anthony Vidler plots the influence of four architectural historians on their time, says Thomas Muirhead

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    Essence of Ritchie

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Poetry, drawings, photography, models, components, materials and books capture the essence of 20 international projects by Ian Ritchie Architects.

  • Lautner’s 1973 Mar Brisas House in Acapulco.
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    California dreaming

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    LA’s current John Lautner exhibition finds an integrity in his response to landscape, says Niall Hobhouse

  • Trabant P70 Coupé designed in East Germany by Walter Ende, 1954.
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    Super one-upmanship

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    The Cold War was more than just an arms race, it was a cultural battle between superpowers determined to prove their superiority. Taylor Downing explores the conflict all over again at the V&A’s latest exhibition

  • “His theme is that we are in a period when design as a great, organising, industrial discipline is in parodic decline. Fatigued by excess and redundancy, consumers seek value in abstracts. Meanwhile, designers make big-ticket one-offs.”
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    Design polyglot speaks up

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Deyan Sudjic is well placed to contribute to the debate on the future of design, says Stephen Bayley

  • James Potter
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    Capture the art of concrete

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Concrete Quarterly, in partnership with BD, announces the winners of its photo competition

  • UN Studio’s interconnecting chambers.
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    Future imperfect

    2008-09-18T00:00:00Z

    The vision of future architecture presented by Aaron Betsky in his show at the Arsenale is too confusing to offer genuine insight

  • The British pavilion posed key questions about the housing crisis and invited comparisons with other European markets.
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    House proud at the British Pavilion

    2008-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Traditional and timely, get your hands on a copy of the catalogue of this informative show

  • Gustafson Porter
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    Venice Biennale: The highlights (images)

    2008-09-12T10:53:00Z

    Will Hunter takes us on a guided tour of the highlights of the opening day of the 2008 Venice Biennale.

  • Casa do Baile leisure complex, Pamulha, Brazil, built in 1940.
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    Oscar Niemeyer, sensuous centurion

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    The career of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, often underrated, is celebrated in this marvellous account, writes Richard Weston

  • Edward Jones and Christopher Woodward
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    London as it is built

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    Architects Edward Jones and Christopher Woodward have updated their seminal guide to the capital’s architecture 25 years after their first excursions.

  • Kathryn Findlay
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    Celebrating the best of Scotland’s architectural heritage

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    To mark the opening of the Scottish Pavilion, BD goes in search of the buildings and structures that epitomise the country and its people

  • McCloud: construction as soap opera.
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    Bigging up the architect

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    Saul Metzstein watches Kevin McCloud’s Castleford TV series

  • The Curve in Leicester. Rafael Viñoly's first building to be completed in the UK.
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    Viñoly makes UK debut with The Curve

    2008-09-11T12:45:00Z

    Rafael Viñoly has revealed these images of The Curve, a theatre in Leicester which is the Uruguayan architect’s first building to be completed in the UK.

  • Detroit Collaborative Design Center
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    Venice Biennale: The American Pavilion

    2008-09-10T16:32:00Z

    'Into the Open: Positioning Practice' looks at how architects can reclaim a role in shaping community and the built environment, whilst expanding understanding of American architectural practice and its relationship to civic participation.