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Meet: Ben Adams Architects
2 March 2015Introducing the London-based firm whose projects include workspaces for two major UK practices, Feilden Clegg Bradley's London office and WilkinsonEyre's design studio
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Making connections: Grimshaw’s Fulton Centre, Manhattan
2 March 2015The trains now pulling into Manhattan’s Fulton Center are several years late, but welcome nonetheless... The Grimshaw-designed transit hub, just opened, stands out in the subway system for its natural light and clear sightlines, inspired by the city’s great civic transit halls. It is certainly attracting the attention of the commuters, who are pausing to view the unique Sky Reflector-Net overhead that is bouncing light around the new spaces.
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The Art of Robert McGinnis – book review
2 March 2015Robert McGinnis with Art Scott; Titan Books, £24.99
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Federico Babina’s illustrated alphabet of architects
24 February 2015A new publication out this month documents Federico Babina’s fun illustrated alphabet of famous architects, from Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier and Norman Foster to Walter Gropius and Zaha Hadid.
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Miguel Arruda’s Vila Franca Library
24 February 2015Split from its river by the 19th-century arrival of the railway, the Portuguese town of Vila Franca has been made whole again by Lisbon architect and designer Miguel Arruda. His library and its connecting bridge straddling the railway tracks is at the same time the latest in the new generation of Great European libraries.
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Miguel Arruda – interview
17 February 2015Miguel Arruda studied sculpture at Lisbon’s Faculty of Fine Arts, where he would later become a professor, and serves as chair of its board of directors. He studied architecture at Lisbon’s Technical University. He is a furniture designer for several international houses, and he was the subject of a 2013 retrospective at Portugal’s fashion and design museum MUDE. He talked with Herbert Wright about the library at Vila Franca.
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Lobbying for Mies van der Rohe
17 February 2015Having worked on the uncompromising IBM building in Chicago 50 years ago with his grandfather Mies van der Rohe, Dirk Lohan has been called back to help with the reception part of its conversion into a luxury Langham hotel, in which Mies’ ‘less is more’ dictum was apparently not the driving factor.
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Surreal estate – the art of Alex Chinneck
10 February 2015From a house which melts before the eyes of thousands of commuters, to a neoclassical portico which hovers precariously over London’s Covent Garden, the magical, ambitious work of Alex Chinneck suspends belief, forcing viewers to question the urban environment. Shumi Bose catches up with the young artist in a rare moment of repose, before he pulls his next reality-bending trick...
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Moscow Urban Forum – Review
10 February 2015Herbert Wright braves the Russian winter to report on this year's event
