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Having The Edge
We look at the latest crop of sustainable buildings that are using smart technology to the full.
Brief Encounters
The Design Trust is helping artists market their work through identifying and finding their real audience.
Animal Attractions
Creating buildings for people is one thing, but when they are for animals it’s a whole different thing. We look at a selection of designs that have provided homes for the furry and the feathered...
Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers review
Photographer Martin Parr has curated an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery about Britain as told from the viewpoint of foreign photographers. It’s a revelation, finds Herbert Wright
The battle of Hastings Pier
Once grand statements of Victorian seaside towns’ confidence and bravado, piers, like the towns themselves, are now often neglected and down-at-heel. In Hastings, however, the fire-damaged pier has risen from the ashes thanks to the local community and dRMM architects
Client File
Robert McLean, leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ workplace & capital projects team, tells us what he looks for when commissioning out design projects.
The Grand Entrance Hall, Brunel Museum / Tate Harmer
Designed when he was a teenager, with his father Marc Brunel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s very first project - the Thames Tunnel, spanning 396m underwater - was a world first. Celebrated with underground fairs and banquets before being converted for steam trains, its entrance shaft has lain inaccessible and unused for more than 150 years. Now, thanks to a new entrance and staircase by Tate Harmer, it is welcoming revellers once again
Pablo Bronstein: A Choreography of Errors
Pablo Bronstein’s works explore themes arising from the baroque and postmodern in media including drawings, installations and choreography. Between rehearsals for his Tate Britain commission, Historical Dances in an Antique Setting, Herbert Wright had the pleasure of an audience with him, and an opportunity to enquire about the new production, and sundry diverse matters
A metal morphing head visualizes Franz Kafka's distressed psyche
A visually striking 11m tall head kinetic sculpture in Prague has been formed of renowned writer Franz Kafka. Located inside a busy shopping centre, right next to a building in which Kafka himself once worked as a clerk in an insurance company, the sculpture has been named 'K on Sun' and was created by David Černý, a courageous Czech sculptor.
Sweden's smörgåsbord of Architecture
Sweden is an astounding country being the home of Ikea, smörgåsbord, ABBA, Max Burger and incredibly successful in Eurovision. Today is the National day of Sweden, so what better way to celebrate than to delve into the top five picks of architecture throughout this stunningly modern Scandinavian country.
