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'Magnificently luminous': Lewis Center for the Arts + Maggie’s Centre Barts by Steven Holl Architects
2 March 2018With the $300m Lewis Center for Princeton University, Steven Holl has extended a beloved campus with three new buildings. Meanwhile, in London, his bold Maggie's Centre is conceived as a 'breath of life'
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Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
17 January 2017‘Rolling up the street’ was the starting idea for this 14-storey addition to the Columbia Medical School by Diller Scofido + Renfro. With it the practice has also realised a 20-year long exploration of a continuous surface building, albeit as a specific response to site and program.
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A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA and Beyond review
4 July 2016Bringing the Japanese sensibility to New York, this MoMA show focuses on the network of architects and designers that has developed around Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and SANAA
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New York story: Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center transit hub
27 June 2016Inspired by a dove being released from the hands of a child, Santiago Calatrava’s transit hub at the World Trade Center features a pair of white steel-ribbed wings soaring 50m into the sky. Delayed and more than twice its original budget, at over $4bn, it is an astonishing Instagrammable spectacle, but will time heal the cost to New Yorkers?
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Grace Farms by SANAA
4 January 2016SANAA has added yet another curved-glass building to its portfolio in the form of Grace Farms, a minority evangelical Christian church and ‘sanctuary’ in rural Connecticut
