Tag: architecture
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Louvre Abu Dhabi: Jean Nouvel’s spectacular palace of culture shimmers in the desert
With its cosmic dome and starry latticework, the French architect’s water-lapped Gulf outpost shuns the petrodollar glitz of its neighbours. But there’s no whitewashing the appalling treatment of the labourers who built its light-filled halls
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Meet Liz Diller, the rebel architect behind MoMA, the High Line and now a home for Simon Rattle
Her practice beat Foster, Gehry and Piano to clinch London’s new £250m Centre for Music. She talks about fuelling gentrification – and why arts buildings have to be more than corporate baubles
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The Bilbao effect: how Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim started a global craze
Opened 20 years ago this month, the glittering titanium museum had a wow factor that cities around the globe were soon clamouring to copy
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Mocaa, Cape Town: grain silo reborn as Africa’s answer to Tate Modern
Thomas Heatherwick pulls off an awesome act of architectural mutilation – just don’t mention the luxury hotel upstairs
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The Spanish holiday home as an architectural collectible
In rural Aragon, the Solo Houses project is giving international architects free rein to create the buildings of their imagination
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Grand Hyatt Changsha expected to be the destination for impressive views and unforgettable dining experiences
A riverfront landmark just steps from Changsha’s historic sites, Grand Hyatt Changsha is expected to be the destination for impressive views and unforgettable dining experiences in the heart of this cosmopolitan city. Situated in the river valley along the lower reaches of the Xiang River, Changsha is the capital city of the Hunan Province, which…