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Meet: Tham & Videgard Arkitekter
16 May 2016Cate St Hill gets to know Swedish practice Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, which has just completed a curvaceous new school of architecture in Stockholm
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The architecture of High Rise
9 May 2016Turning the works of JG Ballard into film has been a surprisingly rare occurrence, especially so when you consider in what high regard his output is held. Now filmmaker Ben Wheatley has taken on 1975’s High-Rise
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Hide and Seek – OMA’s Timmerhuis
9 May 2016Almost as soon as the bombs that all but obliterated Rotterdam had stopped falling, the redevelopment of the city began and it’s been going on ever since. The latest addition is the Timmerhuis - a ‘floating cloud of steel and glass’ by OMA, that seems to hide itself in the fabric of the city
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The art of landscape architecture: Belgium’s staircase to heaven
6 May 2016Close to Bone revives landscape architecture in Tielt-Winge with a unique tower
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New York’s iconic buildings, but not as you know them
5 May 2016A photographer provides a new perspective on popular NYC buildings
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Pedestrian bridge design: Copenhagen's Butterfly Bridge
5 May 2016A unique design from Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes uses 'wings' as a solution to the three-point crossing
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UK’s longest treetop walkway opens
4 May 2016Look up, Westonbirt is now home to a very long walkway
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All the wood’s a stage – Studio Gang’s Writers Theatre
3 May 2016Timber is enjoying a renaissance as a contemporary building material, but the USA has been slow to catch up on innovations in Europe and Japan. Enter Studio Gang, one of the US’ leading practices. At the new Writers Theatre in a small town in Illinois, it has given timber a stage and pushed its performance to new levels
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Spaces standards for homes
3 May 2016A new nationwide minimum space guideline for new-build homes has been brought in by the Government, which might mitigate some of the worst abuses. Ten architects, housebuilders and developers give their views on the new move...
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Forum for change – Herzog & de Meuron’s Blavatnik School of Government
26 April 2016Herzog & de Meuron’s latest building, a wedding cake-like stack of glass volumes, is home to Oxford University’s first School of Government. Funded by Britain’s richest man, Leonard Blavatnik, its centrepiece is a grand cylindrical void designed to foster collaboration and interaction between future world leaders
