Tag: architecture
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Thomas Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yard – shopping in the Instagram age
Thomas Heatherwick’s ‘kissing’ roofs top a new high-end shopping mall in the old coal sheds. But why does the whole King’s Cross scheme not quite feel real?
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Secular Retreat review – a simply miraculous piece of architecture
The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has built ‘a gliding swan’ of a house in Devon that strikes a perfect balance between inside and out, whichever way you look
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Party palaces and funky funhouses: Freddy Mamani’s maverick buildings
With pinball machine interiors and animal-shaped facades, Mamani’s wild venues have transformed Bolivian architecture. Now the former bricklayer is taking ‘neo-Andean’ style to Paris
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Jean Nouvel and The Rooms of Rome architecture: 24 apartments created by the French architect at the rhinoceros palace
The Rooms of Rome, a unique experience that offers personalized stays in which art and architecture have no boundaries, has just arrived in the most historical part of the city. The 24 apartments are located in “rhinoceros” a historic palace conceived by the Fondazione Alda Fendi – Esperimenti and have been designed and furnished…
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Norman Foster’s Bloomberg office in London wins Stirling prize
European HQ sees off Tate St Ives extension to 2018 prize with environmentally friendly design
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Architect Nicholas Grimshaw wins RIBA gold medal
The designer of the Eden Project and Waterloo station’s international terminal awarded the UK’s highest accolade for architecture