Tag: architecture
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Wasteful, damaging and outmoded: is it time to stop building skyscrapers?
Tall buildings are still deemed desirable, even glamorous, but experts are drawing attention to the high environmental cost of building them
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Climate activists slam Norman Foster over Saudi airport
Architect is ignoring his own environment pledge, say critics
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Antonio Citterio: ‘A good, truly resilient city is also safe and inclusive’
The architect and designer on how projects in Milan are dissolving boundaries between interior and exterior
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Conserve, reuse, retrofit, and recycle are prominent themes running across each 2020 Green Good Design winner
The 2020 Green Good Design Winners. For 2020, 100 product design, graphics, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, together with visionary leaders, were awarded GREEN GOOD DESIGN from 20 nations. A sustainable Rado watch, medical equipment, lighting, a thermoelectric refrigerator, faucets and plumbing fixtures, home and office furniture, a power plant, transportation hubs,…
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The world’s top 10 new architecture projects
Making a virtue out of global lockdown, our critic takes a virtual tour of the world’s best new architecture projects – from a rural Vietnamese preschool to a Belgian folly and a synagogue in Paraguay
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Framing the horizon: dwellings that blend with the desert
Part fantasy escape and part futuristic vision, these desirable desert designs are a stunning blend of structure and landscape