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Govine Tendencies: Jeremy Till on GOV.UK’s Design of the Year
22 April 2013I was pretty depressed on the night of Wednesday 17th April 2013. I was sat by myself overlooking the beautiful but bleak Norfolk marshes with a sense of foreboding about what the BBC would bring me, the day after the day of Thatcher's funeral. And then my twitter feed flickered in to life.
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If You Build It, Will They Come?
22 April 2013Edwin Heathcote chaired a packed Architecture Foundation event to listen to architects’ presentations and discussion about new cultural projects. The big issue was, is there any steam left in the Bilbao Effect (the architectural extravaganza of Gehry’s Guggenheim transforming the city into a destination)?
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L’Afrique, c’est chic! Afrofuture at Milan
18 April 2013The most intriguing exhibitions during Milan’s Salone del Mobile are often to be found in unconventional spaces. Gritty, abandoned warehouses on shabby side streets provide backdrops for on-trend, temporary exhibitions. But for one of the most stimulating events of this year’s Salone to take at a department store seemed slightly unusual.
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Pae White: Too much night, again
12 April 2013Insomnia strings people out, but Californian artist Pae White used the condition to conceive a site-specific installation that strings out 48km of yarn across 4,725 eye screws, spanning the main gallery of the SLG. The result for her was therapy, and for the viewer a remarkable play on space and typography.
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Il Mio Milano: Philippe Starck on the Milan Salone
7 April 2013Blueprint catches up with design maestro and Salone veteran Philippe Starck on the eve of the world’s biggest design event, to find out what he’s upto and where he will be hanging out.
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Richard Seifert: Reputations Reassessed
26 March 2013A catastrophic technical failure that wiped out any presentation visuals for an hour did not stop the Twentieth Century Society‘s Catherine Croft delivering a talk on the UK’s most successful commercial architect of the post-war era, Richard Seifert.
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Simon Starling’s Black Drop
20 March 2013Oxford’s moniker as ‘the city of dreaming spires’ is invariably harped upon in the guidebooks. Though once immortalised in the poetry of gentleman-scholars, the city’s architectural beacons of power and learning are probably more often remembered today on the smartphones of the omnipresent herds of tourists who roam the city centre.
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RIBA acquires Charles Correa archive: India’s ‘greatest’ architect
20 March 2013Celebrating 50 years of architectural work in India and the recent acquisition of his archive, RIBA is launching a new exhibition this spring – Charles Correa: Indian’s Greatest Architect.
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Review: Black Eyes and Lemonade at the Whitechapel Gallery
20 March 2013Popular, outsider and ‘folk’ art seems to be undergoing somewhat of a resurgence over the last few years, brought back not least by the Museum of Everything‘s irregular appearances in spaces around London (and now the world). From March until September, East London’s Whitechapel Gallery is getting in on the action with an archive exhibition drawing on an exhibit first shown at the gallery in 1951.
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Design Days Dubai 2013
17 March 2013Design fairs are becoming de rigeur for any city worth its cultural salt; increasing critical and commercial importance is transferring from traditional hubs of design, like Milan and Frankfurt, towards emerging markets such as Moscow, Gwangju and Mumbai.
