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Game, Set and Match
With the Olympic flame due to be in Rio next month, it’s timely to look at new UK stadia that are springing up with an eye to hospitality as well as the game. Veronica Simpson reports...
Profile: Tom Piper
What is art? It’s been a question put to theatre designer Tom Piper since he helped create the moving First World War poppies installation at the Tower of London.
What's on in London this summer
FX assistant editor Emily Martin takes a trip into Kensington Gardens in Hyde Park to have a look at the four summer houses accompanying this year’s Serpentine Pavilion by practice BIG.
A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA and Beyond review
Bringing the Japanese sensibility to New York, this MoMA show focuses on the network of architects and designers that has developed around Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and SANAA
Big Mac: Entrepot Macdonald, Paris
The longest building in Paris has just had a billion-euro makeover. The new Entrepôt Macdonald is a collaboration involving 15 architects including Pritzker Prize winner Christian de Portzamparc and Kengo Kuma of Japan. This is a visionary grand projet away from where tourists tread, but some involved question the megastructure that has resulted. Herbert Wright went down the line to report
Scared of heights? Beware of LA's new 70-story 'Skyslide'
Got a head for heights? In the city of Los Angeles a new ’fr- height-ful’ challenge arrived on the 20th of June, OUE announced the official opening of OUE Skyspace LA. Reaching nearly 1000 feet above the City of Angels in the iconic U.S. Bank Tower, it will honour the culture, community and people that make the city unlike any other city in the world.
Emaar designs an astonishing new skyline for Dubai
It doesn't get bigger or better than this design, really it doesn't. Designed by Santiago Calatrava Valls, a new iconic destination was unveiled at an exclusive preview in Dubai. With a design that was influenced by the natural contours of the lily flower and the region's Islamic culture, The Pinnacle Room will crown The Tower. Once built it is predicted that The Tower will be Dubai Creek Harbour's most desired residential and leisure destinations in the city.
If Only...there was a real Rainbow Bridge to our dearly departed pets
says Renee Hytry of the Formica Group.
One to Watch
The Kit Miles Studio was founded in 2012 by the said Kit Miles shortly after he graduated from the RCA, and specialises in the design of contract fabrics and wallpapers featuring a dynamic use of colour and geographic imagery.
New York story: Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center transit hub
Inspired by a dove being released from the hands of a child, Santiago Calatrava’s transit hub at the World Trade Center features a pair of white steel-ribbed wings soaring 50m into the sky. Delayed and more than twice its original budget, at over $4bn, it is an astonishing Instagrammable spectacle, but will time heal the cost to New Yorkers?
