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Interview: Kengo Kuma - sharing the same shadows
11 November 2013The Japanese architect talks to Clare Farrow about growing up in a traditional wooden house in the suburbs of Tokyo, and the ways in which technology can reinforce the relationship between architecture and nature
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Interview: Neville Brody on the changing face of graphic design
11 November 2013From putting his visual stamp on youth culture through the 80s and 90s to designing survival strategies for the creative sector, Neville Brody is a man with an appetite for challenge. Veronica Simpson discusses typography and tactics with one of few remaining gurus of graphic design.
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Not What, But How: creating socially sustainable architecture
8 November 2013A new exhibition at the Architectural Association showcases the achievements of WORKSHOP architecture.
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Review: The Images of Architects
1 November 2013The Images of Architects, edited by Valerio Olgiati. Review by Jack Self
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Motioning a Table: How RSH+P Is Building the 'Cheesegrater'
1 November 2013The construction process for Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ Leadenhall Building is almost like architectural theatre in the City of London. Herbert Wright reports from 140m up, as he watches the yellow table-modules being craned into position..
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Robe and Crown: Birmingham's new library
24 October 2013Its brutalist predecessor divided opinion in the city, but the new, £189m Library of Birmingham triumphs as a building of the 21st century. It should also be a building for the next century, hopes architect Mecanoo’s Francine Houben.
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The Art of Repetition: flattened Fiats by Ron Arad
22 October 2013Flat tyres, flat everything - designer Ron Arad has squashed iconic Fiat 500s into two-dimensional, wall-hung art
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Blueprint magazine celebrates 30th birthday in style
18 October 2013Doyens of British design and architecture including Richard Rogers and Terence Conran attended a special party this month to celebrate the magazine they helped establish 30 years ago
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Project: One Waverton Street, London, by Squire and Partners
7 October 2013A seven storey townhouse has been squeezed into the space behind the restrained facade of an 18th century pub in Mayfair. Herbert Wright quizzed project architect Marcie Larizadeh on how its Tardis-like design manages to include six bedrooms and a swimming pool
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Post world's end architecture: Portugal
13 September 2013Once the apex of contemporary excellence, Portugal's architecture has paralleled the Eurozone crisis with a fall from grace. But there may be hope: a new wave of architects is uniting with the community to create provocative new projects with the potential to reclaim the civic domain
