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A letter from 40,000ft - aboard Virgin Atlantic’s new Dreamliner
20 January 2015Johnny Tucker doesn’t strap in for the inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic’s latest aircraft — the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner — he’s too busy whooping it up at 40,000ft with London’s hippest DJs at the decks.
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Women Fashion Power - review
20 January 2015Rebecca Swirsky reviews the Design Museum's exhibition Women Fashion Power, which is on until 26 April 2015.
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Milan Expo 2015 - a look at this year's pavilions
20 January 2015All eyes will fall on Milan this May for the opening of the 2015 World Expo. Here, we highlight just some of the pavilions to look forward to, while Herbert Wright meets the British pavilion’s designer, Wolfgang Buttress.
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Neri&Hu at this year's IMM Cologne
13 January 2015Shanghai architect Neri&Hu is creating the focal point for January’s IMM Cologne furniture fair. Johnny Tucker was in Shanghai for the announcement, and then caught up with practice co-founder Lyndon Neri again in London to challenge him about some of the notions behind the scheme.
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SCIN curates materials feature at Architect@Work
13 January 2015Material specialist SCIN is curating the materials feature at Architect@Work and the focus is on facades
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OMA's Reinier de Graaf travels to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
6 January 2015Despite being sanitised for the benefit of the World Cup and upcoming Olympic Games, OMA’s Reinier de Graaf sees the much-discussed favelas of Rio de Janeiro as a stark, if vital, reflection of the paradox of exponential growth — in which those who have traded countryside for city are denied a proper urban life.
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Pile of hope - 20 years of Maggie's Centres
6 January 2015It’s been 20 years since Maggie Jencks dreamt of a single room where cancer patients, like herself, could go to escape. She didn’t live quite long enough to see the first Maggie’s Centre open, but this October marks the opening of the 18th centre in 18 years. Her modest vision has been transformed from her husband Charles Jencks’ ‘pile of hope’ — a stack of articles promising breakthroughs — to the ambitious charity of today...
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Thomas Heatherwick's Gin Palace
23 December 2014Gin brand Bombay Sapphire has sunk its heritage stake deeper into the British psyche by establishing a distillery in the heart of the Hampshire countryside. Thomas Heatherwick converted and developed the Laverstoke Mill on the River Test, and has created a visual heart for the visitor experience with two spectacular glasshouses to cultivate the essential botanicals that flavour the gin.
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Project: Science Museum
23 December 2014The Science Museum in London is undergoing a major £60m facelift, which will see new exhibition spaces by Zaha Hadid, Wilkinson Eyre, Muf and Coffey Architects. Cate St Hill pays a visit to the latest gallery, dedicated to the history of information technology, by Universal Design Studio.
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Can design be an act of political dissidence? asks Ines Weizman
15 December 2014Though manifest for millennia, recent years have seen a rash of urban protest, and an interest in the architectural platforms of social upheaval. Civil unrest has become a cultural phenomenon. But how much political agency can designers really have? Architect and educator Ines Weizman ponders the idea of dissidence – the critical act of standing ‘apart’.
