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  • August 2016

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  • Bolivian salt flats reflect the Milky Way

    • 10 August 2016

    The world's largest salt flat provides a stunning setting for photographer Daniel Kordan, who traveled there in search of the darkest possible sky.

    The world's best designed sports stadiums 2016

    DesignCurial searches for the world’s best-designed sports stadiums

    Bay Area Behemoth: SFMOMA by Snøhetta

    • 09 August 2016

    Architecture practice Snøhetta’s largest American building to date has just opened, seeing some of Mario Botta’s features from the 1995 original San Francisco Museum of Modern Art removed and receiving mixed reviews for its design. But with several of the new SFMOMA’s featured artists congratulating Snøhetta, it’s happy

    Listen: George Ferguson

    • 09 August 2016

    George Ferguson is an architect and a former RIBA president, who has just concluded four years running Bristol city as elected mayor. Not aligned with any political party, he used his independent status to implement radical transport, education and outreach schemes and partnerships during his time, aimed at creating a more resilient, connected and healthy city. His grand finale was devising and hosting Bristol’s European Green capital 2015 programme, harnessing the city’s rich creative, social and intellectual capital to generate enthusiasm for sustainable living

    Brighton seafront welcomes British Airways i360

    The Brighton seafront is about to change forever, thanks to the British Airways i360, the tallest moving observation tower in the world which will open to the public on Thursday 4th August.

    Profile: David Harber

    • 03 August 2016

    Out of the shadows of a varied CV and into the sunchine of creating a much-desired portfolio of garden sculptures, David Harber is a new recipient of a Queen’s Award for Trade for his metal art.

    Reporter

    • 03 August 2016

    Highlighting the important of engineering in daily life, a series of exhibitions considering engineers as the ‘unsung heroes’ of design forms part of the V&A’s Engineering Season.

    Switching place: Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension

    Tate Modern’s latest extension is radical in form and surface, yet intimately relates to the vast building it joins, which opened as London’s foremost modern art gallery in 2000. The new Switch House’s angular geometry, permeability, movement and, materiality are explored by Herbert Wright, who also earlier talked to its architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

    Blueprint reviews Alejandro Aravena’s 15th Venice Architecture Biennale

    • 01 August 2016

    We share the very best of this year’s festival, curated by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena with the theme Reporting from the Front, and find a distinctive move away from starchitecture in favour of socially minded projects and research

  • July 2016

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  • A hypnotic theatre turned bookshop in Buenos Aires

    A 1919 palatial theatre in Buenos Aires, named the ‘El Ateneo Grand Splendid’, has been transformed into a booklover’s paradise. Originally designed by architects Peró and Torres Armengol for Empresario Max Glücksmann, the auditorium features spacious ceiling murals painted by Italian artist Nazareno Orlandi and caryatids sculpted by Troiano Troian which subsequently created an ecclesiastical structure.