All Review articles – Page 69
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ReviewDavid Greene: L.A.W.U.N* Project #19 and L.A.W.u.N.* Project #20- until May 24
As a founder member of Archigram, Architect, educator; David Greene has been hugely influential for generations of architects. Accompanied by an AA publication, the exhibition will explore Greene’s interest in how new technologies inform new architectures by demonstrating his increasing disinterest in form and a willful drift towards invisibility. Conceived ...
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Review'DES RES - London's Housing Challenge': Housing and the Public Realm- June 14
Well designed streets and public spaces make dense, populated areas attractive, enjoyable and efficient. What is our approach to the public realm? What effect will it have on where we want to live? How can we create places that improve people's lives and provide safe, clean environments that have their ...
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Review'DES RES - London's Housing Challenge': Planning to Deliver - May 13
Discussing and debating over the key issues concerned with delivery and planning, (regularly seen as the biggest barrier to delivering new homes), is the purpose of this half day conference from the NLA. It is the first of the ‘Des Res’ series of talks and conferences aimed at exploring the ...
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The Hayward at 40: architects pay tribute
To celebrate 40 years of the Hayward on London’s South Bank, architects who have designed exhibitions there recall its finest moments
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ReviewRichard Rogers + Architects: From the House to the City – until August 25
Covering such high-profile projects as the Pompidou Centre, the headquarters for Lloyd’s of London, the Millennium Dome and the National Assembly for Wales.The Design Museum presents a detailed survey of most influential British architects of our time; right back from the early years at Team 4 in the 1960s with ...
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Time to build on the green belt? - 30 April
From 'eco-towns' to redeveloped brownfield sites, are the government's plans really able to address the chronic housing shortage? and are the environmental concerns influencing housing policy inhibiting development and construction? Do we need to rethink our priorities? If so, should we unbuckle the green belt and let the developers build? ...
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ReviewTrend: Reductions
Many designers have sought to dematerialise their furniture or reduce it to its most basic form.
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ReviewTrend: Infusions
The exploration of the traditional, which in recent years has been more at the level of surface pattern, is increasingly focusing on silhouette.
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ReviewMilan interviews: Nigel Coates and Naoto Fukasawa
Interview with Nigel Coates: ‘The difference in a curve on furniture is as precise as on a pair of glasses’
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ReviewBD’s top five chairs from the Milan Furniture Fair
1. Alexander Taylor’s Uniform chair for Established & Sons.2. Bertjam Pot’s Vica chair for Moooi3. Cappellini’s folding Stitch chair.4. Stripe chair for L’Abbate.5. Jasper Morrison’s Basel chair for Vitra.
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ReviewArchigram’s David Greene revisited
Sixties icon David Greene tells Liz Bury how his work is being revisited for the noughties
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ReviewHow radical sixties architecture let it all hang out
Forty years after the unrest of May 1968, Shumon Basar reviews Spaced Out, a study of some of the avant-garde structures of the psychedelic sixties
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ReviewMilan 2008's feast of furniture
Fresh back from tasting the latest wares at the world’s largest furniture fair, Will Hunter tells us what was cooking in Milan
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ReviewLooking good in photos
Anthony Vidler’s new book considers how celebrity influences architecture, says Thomas Muirhead
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ReviewThe strange relationship between sciences and humanities
Geometry is the overarching theme of this new show at Kettle’s Yard, writes Tom Holbrook
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ReviewPaul Catherall: Shaping The City - Until May 18
Catherall is renowned for his clean, sharp prints of London architecture, including Tate Modern, Battersea Power Station and Trellick Tower and also as London Transport’s most popular and prolific poster artists.
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ReviewAnne Desmet - Urban Evolution - until August 3
Presenting collages inspired by The Tower of Babel, the British Museum’s Great Court and the Victoria Baths in Manchester, which is (currently in restoration). Printmaker Anne Desmet deals with themes of urban decay and renewal in her new exhibition at Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery
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ReviewEmbankment Galleries provides a new cross-arts space for London
Pamela Buxton talks to curator Claire Catterall about her plans for Somerset House’s revamped gallery
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ReviewTrend: Confections
Many of this year’s most successful pieces combine jarring forms to make startling compositional statements.
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ReviewKing finds comfort in colour
Sculptor Phillip King’s latest work takes a new and welcome excursion into the world of colour