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Brief Encounters: Amsterdam’s Print Art
16 May 2017Veronica Simpson is in Amsterdam, where she examines a social revolution of a 100 years ago...that of print art.
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Sea change: Resilient Flooding Schemes
27 April 2017By 2060, over a billion people will live in cities at risk of catastrophic flooding. But rather than embark on huge, hard infrastructure projects to prevent the worst, it seems the world’s leading engineers and landscape architects are joining forces with other disciplines – meteorologists and IT experts – to come up with far more nuanced, pragmatic solutions
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Fixing a hole: Fixperts profile
20 April 2017Every idea has its day, and Fixperts is an idea whose momentum has truly arrived. In 2016, the open-source fixing evangelists picked up a major Blueprint award, and trialled a whole new teaching programme around making for arts-starved UK schools. With the BBC recently launching its Big Life Fix, showing design professionals as they tackle real-life problems, it appears that fixing as a universal act of ingenuity and resistance – countering the culture of empty consumerism and built-in obsolescence – is going mainstream
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Brief Encounters: Public Art in Oslo
13 April 2017Veronica Simpson has been to Oslo, where she witnessed a different kind of public art.
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Brief Encounters: Veronica Simpson
15 March 2017Veronica Simpson is in a field in Derbyshire to see the progress of a scheme for a furniture business that is literally growing up.
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Marsh Hill by Mole Architects
14 March 2017This Suffolk house by Mole Architects achieves a fine balance of simplicity and complexity through careful detailing, craftsmanship and sensitivity to scale and the lived experience
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On the drawing board: Panorama by Marc Mimram
10 March 2017French architect and engineer Marc Mimram is realising his first inhabitable bridge, spanning the railway lines near Gare d’Austerlitz in Paris
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Review: Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern
28 February 2017The work of Robert Rauschenberg, on show at Tate Modern, seems to have predicted almost every contemporary art movement that followed, finds Veronica Simpson.
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Tales of the Unexpected: the work of Bedwyr Williams
20 February 2017We step into the weird and wonderful world of Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams and his surreal staged performances
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Brief Encounters: Underrated Places in the UK
10 February 2017Veronica Simpson assesses the importance of arts festivals being held in the UK’s under-appreciated cities. Are they making a difference?
