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Zaha Hadid on designing the new Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku
31 January 2014The architect speaks to Blueprint about her approach to creating the new Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku
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Familiar theme: China's copycat cities
22 January 2014Quite apart from the industrial production of fake branded products and counterfeits is the double phenomenon of China’s ‘copycat cities’. Often spectacularly unoccupied, these have not only borrowed heavily from townscapes around Europe, but also speak of an unique aspiration of self-invention
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The past is an English country: the story of English Heritage
22 January 2014A hundred years ago, worried about Britain’s built environment, the state established the listings system and gave itself the power to make a collection of buildings for ‘public benefit and education’. Today English Heritage, which continues that work, fights to preserve a modern heritage that its antecedents would be astounded by. We look at some of the more dramatic case histories of recent years
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Canterbury student James young wins award from ReardonSmith
15 January 2014The winner of the 2013 Sleep ReardonSmith Student Award is James Young, a fourth-year student studying for his Masters in Architecture at the Canterbury School of Architecture.
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Leading architects come together for new design event The Fix
15 January 2014FX collaborated with Gensler, Livewire and Cole Consulting to bring together property, retail and design with this new initiative, The Fix. At its launch, we focused on the pop-up and the implications for the retail, hotel and the hospitality, and property sectors. How creative are pop-ups — and how is money made from them? Toby Maxwell reports
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New urban quarter unveiled for historic London site
13 December 2013Sheppard Robson, Maccreanor Lavington and Piercy&Company have revealed detailed facade designs for buildings located within Barts Square – a new urban, 3.2 acre mixed-use quarter in the City of London’s Smithfield Conservation Area.
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Interview: Kengo Kuma - sharing the same shadows
11 November 2013The Japanese architect talks to Clare Farrow about growing up in a traditional wooden house in the suburbs of Tokyo, and the ways in which technology can reinforce the relationship between architecture and nature
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Video: campaign to save Chicago's iconic women's hospital
7 November 2013The Absent Column, a film by journalist Nathan Eddy spearheads the campaign to save the Prentice Women's Hospital building, a late modernist masterpiece by Bertrand Goldberg, which is scheduled for demolition.
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Review: The Images of Architects
1 November 2013The Images of Architects, edited by Valerio Olgiati. Review by Jack Self
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Motioning a Table: How RSH+P Is Building the 'Cheesegrater'
1 November 2013The construction process for Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ Leadenhall Building is almost like architectural theatre in the City of London. Herbert Wright reports from 140m up, as he watches the yellow table-modules being craned into position..
