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Market makeovers
15 February 2018In a celebration of the reinvention of a vintage retail format, Veronica Simpson examines the rise of the high-quality, low-cost street food market.
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Brief Encounters - Hackney Town Hall
14 February 2018Veronica Simpson looks at the revival and improvements to Hackney Town Hall, turning it into a state-of-the-art local asset
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Oslo airport's new terminal is designed to be stress-free
7 February 2018In a new terminal for Oslo airport, Nordic — Office of Architecture has tried to create a completely stress-free travel experience
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Top of the Class
17 January 2018Pioneering new approaches are being taken by architects and designers in schools for children with special educational needs, reports Veronica Simpson
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Brief Encounters
16 January 2018Veronica Simpson is in Hastings to look at the story behind dRMM’s Stirling prize-winning pier
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Brief Encounters
19 December 2017Veronica Simpson assesses the importance or otherwise of design and architecture awards.
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Pleasure dome: Louvre Abu Dhabi by Jean Nouvel
13 December 2017Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi is the first building in a proposed new cultural quarter for the city, on land reclaimed from the sea. The building draws on traditional Arab architectural patterns, lighting and forms, but delivers an ambitious programme using 21st-century technologies, materials and sophistication
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Brief Encounters - White Collar Factory by AHMM
14 November 2017Veronica Simpson reports on the White Collar Factory by AHMM for Derwent, once labelled by letting agents as ‘too weird’
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Open Source
8 November 2017Veronica Simpson looks at cultural institutions that are realising that their archives give them a unique edge, and which they are capitalising on with new buildings and spaces
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Brief Encounters - RIBA
13 October 2017Veronica Simpson reports from a recent RIBA conference where some solutions to social and economic divisions were proposed by a hard-hitting cast list of speakers
