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Less is more: the Al Zorah pavilion in Ajman, designed by Annabel Karim
8 July 2014Dubai’s neighbour, Ajman, has just unveiled an elegant and contemporary building by French architect Annabel Karim Kassar. Veronica Simpson hopes it signifies a shift in the region’s architectural sensibilities: could thoughtful and classy architecture be the new bling?
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Hugh Maaskant - Architect of Progress
30 June 2014Michelle Provoost nai010 Publishers, €49.50 Review by Thomas Wensing
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How architects are turning their attention to smaller things
24 June 2014After years of creating buildings, architecture practices are now turning their hand to smaller items and industrial design. For these design professionals, it’s about applying the same level of imagination and practicality that they have done with their larger creations.
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Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, by Haworth Tompkins
24 June 2014Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre, an institution that’s been at the heart of the city’s dramatic landscape for 50 years, has been torn down and replaced with a new building by London-based practice Haworth Tompkins. But the firm has stayed true to the original intentions of the Everyman’s creators
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Pure Folly: a new generation of artistic architecture
17 June 2014The building of follies is not a phenomena restricted to the times of recklessly spending sons of wealthy fathers, full of potty ideas fresh from their Grand Tour. Some were satirical social statements, others have actually served a purpose, and now there is a new wave of artistic structures that are proud to bear the moniker...
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Ray Eames: In the Spotlight
17 June 2014Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, until May 4 Review by Brooke Hodge
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Zeev Aram: A Design for life
17 June 2014Now celebrating its 50th year of existence, the Aram Store is a perfect reflection of the sensibilities of its owner and originator, Zeev Aram, who has never compromised his beliefs in design. Architecturally trained, he chose instead to champion outstanding design by relative unknowns, and hoped would-be buyers would share his beliefs. Fifty years on, it’s probably safe to say they did...
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Public art should be more than just an add-on, says Ossian Ward
9 June 2014During the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice this year the Lisson Gallery, in collaboration with Berengo Studio, will present an exhibition of sculpture and installation that aims to address the complex spheres of the public realm and the built environment, under the title Genius Loci - Spirit of Place. Its head of content, journalist Ossian Ward, argues that public art need not be a decorative add-on but can be used to form meaningful relationships between people and their surroundings
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Meet: Pitman Tozer Architects
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Aberrant Architecture: play for today
9 June 2014Humour has become something of a signature for the work of David Chambers and Kevin Haley, collectively known as Aberrant Architecture. And while finding the fun in the projects they work on, from interactive installations to studies of the British pub, the duo approaches them through historical research and storytelling.
