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Reflecting the Romans: Musée de la Romanité by Elizabeth de Portzamparc
12 June 2018Elizabeth de Portzamparc’s new Musée de la Romanité in Nimes responds to two millennia of history with undulating reflections and a building that draws the city into — and on to — it.
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Access all areas: designing spaces and places for diverse sensory needs
5 June 2018For those with specific sensory experiences — from deafness and blindness to autism — the design of spaces can help or hinder. Increasingly, architects and clients are working together to create environments that are more inclusive than ever before
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The Blueprint curated diary: Katerina Gregos
4 June 2018The curator of the first-ever Riga Biennale of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA), Katerina Gregos, shares her pick of the season’s best exhibitions, events and books
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'The only brief was to express our values': Grafton Architects on curating the Venice Biennale
29 May 2018Before the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale opened, we met with the curators, Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects, to discuss the practice's work, alongside the perils and pleasures of bringing the Biennale to fruition
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Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children 1900 to Today — review
22 May 2018The V&A Museum of Childhood’s survey of Nordic design for children since 1900 explores how Scandinavian designers have used play and wonder to put children at the heart of the design of homes, cities and communities
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A ring road runs through it: Blox by OMA
17 May 2018OMA’s long-anticipated home for the Danish Architecture Centre has opened as a waterside stack of blocks in Copenhagen. The project, which embraces a major road physically and metaphorically, sits at odds with Denmark’s pedestrian-friendly urbanism — but does it work?
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Reclaiming the Tube: Art on the Underground commissions only female artists in 2018
9 May 2018In honour of the suffrage centenary, Art on the Underground’s 2018 programme focuses solely on female artists, bringing creativity and feminism to London’s public transport network
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Meet: COBE Architects
2 May 2018Danish practice COBE Architects is busy reimagining the petrol station of the future as a social, healthy hub for people and electric vehicles
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Tetris brutalism: 81–87 Weston St by Solidspace and AHMM
24 April 2018Next to the transformed London Bridge Station, a new kind of mansion flat block has risen, with a 21st-century, high-quality take on brutalism — and a craft-focused design approach described as ‘slow architecture’
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Flying into the future: 10 new airport projects
23 April 2018We look at 10 new airport projects around the globe due to be built over the next five years, including two completely new hubs set to become the largest airports in the world