Architecture

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LA’s graffiti-tagged skyscraper: a work of art – and symbol of city’s wider failings
After its Chinese backers pulled out, Oceanwide Plaza stands abandoned – could it be turned over to those who need it most?

Oliver Wainwright

17, Mar, 2024 @2:00 PM

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The Phoenix, Lewes: a new riverside neighbourhood that sounds almost too good to be true
A dream team of architects has planning permission to convert a former ironworks in the old Sussex market town into a sustainable new community. If built, it could spearhead a transformation of British housing

Rowan Moore

17, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM

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‘A tipping point for the city’: anger in Birmingham as Electric cinema closes
Campaign to save UK’s oldest working cinema and designate Station Street ‘a historic asset’ launched amid redevelopment plans

Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

10, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM

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New River Wing, Clare College, Cambridge review – a perfect fit
Built offsite in Yorkshire and carefully squeezed into its narrow riverside site, the oak-framed extension to Cambridge’s second oldest college combines Tudor-tech spirit and cutting-edge, ship-in-a-bottle engineering

Rowan Moore

10, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM

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John Miller obituary
Architect who modified Tate Britain and other institutions sympathetically and designed discreet new structures

Deyan Sudjic

08, Mar, 2024 @9:10 PM

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A tropical storm, an ancient sisterhood and Toni Morrison sculptures – the week in art
Postcolonial architecture in Ghana, fresh responses to an all-female medieval community and sculptures inspired by radical writing

Jonathan Jones

08, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM

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‘I am not very good at design’: architecture’s top honour goes to Riken Yamamoto
The Pritzker prize has been won by the 78-year-old Japanese master whose work ranges from an open-access Hiroshima fire station to a building seemingly made of books

Oliver Wainwright

05, Mar, 2024 @2:00 PM

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New Yorkers rail against luxury tower blocking Empire State Building: ‘The mighty dollar rules the sky’
Amid a nationwide housing crisis, residents say 262 Fifth Avenue – a batch of condos for the wealthiest – is ruining the view downtown

Alaina Demopoulos in New York

05, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM

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‘It’s a monkey’s puzzle’: is it possible to rebuild the Crooked House pub?
The venue’s owners have been told to put it back to its wonky glory after it was gutted by a fire and bulldozed

Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

03, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM

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Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows
Modernist architecture’s arrival in India and colonial west Africa, and how, post-independence, a new generation of local architects made the style their own, is explored in an intriguing new exhibition

Rowan Moore

03, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM

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‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat
Architects use local materials and merge traditional techniques with modern technology to make schools and orphanages cool, welcoming places

Èlia Borràs in Burkina Faso

29, Feb, 2024 @12:43 PM

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Long-buried Atlas statue raised to guard Temple of Zeus in Sicily once more
Eight-metre statue dating from fifth century BC restored and assembled piece-by-piece to be displayed in Valley of the Temples

Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

29, Feb, 2024 @12:32 PM

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