architecture

Balfron 2.0: how Goldfinger’s utopian tower became luxury flats

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The selloff of Erno Goldfinger’s landmark building in Poplar is a central element of a new plan to transform London’s East End

This project with 271 sky-high swimming pools isn’t just another tower in Dubai’s skyline

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    FIVE Jumeirah Village Dubai isn’t just another tower in Dubai’s skyline. Its visionary design allows for each apartment to incorporate a vast landscaped garden and private swimming pool – even at a staggering height of 800 ft. The tower’s rotating design maximises natural daylight and creates warm and welcoming spaces that simultaneously conserve … Read more

City of London tightens rules on skyscrapers over wind tunnel fears

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Developers will have to modify designs deemed likely to affect cyclists and pedestrians

Left to rot: the new global effort to preserve lost monuments

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From a railway run by children in Ljubljana to brutalist monuments in the Balkans, the Nonument Group maps abandoned 20th-century architecture

Stirling prize 2019 shortlist: from a cork creation to a Teletubbies-style whisky distillery

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Energy efficiency is a priority this year as a railway station, visitor centre, social housing project and opera house vie for the RIBA award for British building of the year