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Review: England’s Post-War Listed Buildings
1 March 2016A new book by Elain Harwood profiles England’s extraordinary variety of buildings listed after 1945, from humble prefabs to top-secret Cold War bunkers
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Gasholder Park, London by Bell Phillips Architects
22 February 2016Once part of the largest gasworks in the world, one surviving gasholder in King’s Cross has been brought back to life in the regenerating area as the lawn-filled Gasholder Park, by Bell Phillips Architects. Cate St Hill reports
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This is Temporary: Transient Architecture
9 February 2016Temporary architecture has been appearing and disappearing more and more in urban public spaces. Many such structures have been branded ‘pop-ups’, follies to provide a moment of light entertainment and camera-ready delight. But there is a long history of a more holistic type of temporary architecture that subtly suggests how we could live, work and play more harmoniously. Here we feature an extract from Cate St Hill’s new book, published by the RIBA, including interviews with 13 exciting, young, socially minded architects, designers and multidisciplinary collectives, making and building their own way.
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Non-Conformist: Eileen Gray’s E-1027 house revisited
11 January 2016Modernist furniture designer, architect and painter Eileen Gray was long overlooked, but her recently restored E-1027 house on the Côte d’Azur drove Le Corbusier to impetuous acts of jealousy. Now open to the public, the house forms part of a new Modernist Mecca called Cap Moderne that also includes Corb’s Le Cabanon. Yet E-1027 is undoubtedly the star of the show, as is Gray - back in the spotlight with a new film, exhibition and book out this year
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Through the keyhole: Adolf Loos interiors in Pilsen
21 December 2015Brno-born architect Adolf Loos was renowned for his modernist interior designs for affluent Austrian and Czech clients. Now, in its year as European Capital of Culture, the city of Pilsen has restored and opened to the public three of the 56 apartment interiors Loos completed in his lifetime. Previously depicted in dingy black-and-white photos, then abandoned and occupied by the Nazis during the Second World War, the apartments have been brought back to their former rich and colourful glory for all to see
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On the drawing board: Foster + Partners' Droneport Project
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Caruso St John’s Newport Street Gallery for Damien Hirst
3 December 2015The architecture practice’s latest projects, including Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall and the new Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, are examples of Caruso St John’s expert, finely tuned appreciation of the visitor experience
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London Design Festival: Tylko
23 November 2015Emerging Warsaw-based start-up Tylko suggests how we might all be purchasing furniture in the future — with the use of an augmented reality app. Cate St Hill tests it out
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Meet: Kacper Hamilton
19 October 2015London-based designer Kacper Hamilton creates curious artefacts and experiences that aim to take the user on an emotional and spiritual journey
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