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London's 'Cheesegrater' could be Richard Rogers' finest high-rise yet
9 December 2014The Leadenhall Building, London’s new star skyscraper, crystallises Richard Rogers’ design philosophy and may be his practice’s finest high-rise yet. Despite realising a concept that’s more than a decade old, and being informed by even older principles forged in the high-tech revolution of the Seventies, this is structurally and symbolically a building facing into the future.
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The art of repetition: artists depict The Shard
2 December 2014100 drawings of London by 100 famous architects and designers are going up for auction to raise money for charity Article 25.
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MVRDV’s Markthal, Rotterdam - building study
2 December 2014Adding its own unique signature to the regeneration of Rotterdam is MVRDV’s stunning Markthal, a market hall sitting in a 10-storey, 120m-deep arch of apartments, while the vibrant Horn of Plenty mural by Dutch artist duo Arno Coenen and Iris Roskam inside the arch is trumpeted by the developer as the largest artwork in Europe.
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Richard Serra at the Gagosian Gallery
24 November 2014Watching an oil tanker being launched made a profound and lasting impression on a four-year-old Richard Serra. Now 75, the artist is still feeding off that memory and it informs his latest works at the Gagosian Gallery in London’s King’s Cross.
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Design Museum Designers in Residence - profile
24 November 2014Returning for a seventh year, Designers in Residence at the Design Museum invited four up-and-coming designers to respond to the theme of disruption. From a solution to Britain’s housing shortage and a hypothetical legal case to a working cash machine and a den-building construction system for children, each designer has diverged from traditional practices and proposed new, unexpected ideas. Here the residents talk about the experience and what they hope to take away from it. An exhibition of their work is on display at the Design Museum until 8 March.
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Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age
24 November 2014Photographer and journalist Gareth Gardner on the Barbican Art Gallery's new exhibition.
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Calling architects: win a £40,000 commission
19 November 2014The call is out – Blueprint is looking for a young architecture practice to work with an artist on a major new £40,000 commission. Blueprint has teamed up with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Ryder Architecture for this exciting installation.
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Country life: Hauser & Wirth's new Somerset gallery
13 November 2014The contemporary art gallery Hauser & Wirth has spaces in Zurich, London and New York. So when it was announced it was going to open an art gallery in deepest Somerset, the question on everyone’s lips, was ‘Why Bruton’?
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Piet Oudolf - interview
13 November 2014Dutch landscape architect Piet Oudolf, the man behind the planting on the High Line in Manhattan and Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Pavilion in 2011, talks to Cate St Hill about his garden for Hauser & Wirth Somerset, including the perennial meadow that sits behind the gallery buildings.
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Back to (the New) School: the new University of Greenwich building
3 November 2014How do you update the home of time? Architecture students at the University of Greenwich will take possession of a brand new building this term. Dublin-based practice Heneghan Peng has negotiated the area's historic fabric to produce an unobtrusive, elegant solution, with high-tech roof gardens and a 'crit pit'.
