Tag: architecture
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Balfron 2.0: how Goldfinger’s utopian tower became luxury flats
The selloff of Erno Goldfinger’s landmark building in Poplar is a central element of a new plan to transform London’s East End
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Settlement reached over San Francisco’s notorious sinking luxury tower
Deal marks end of legal battle between homeowners, 58-storey structure’s developer and neighboring construction project
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This project with 271 sky-high swimming pools isn’t just another tower in Dubai’s skyline
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…
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City of London tightens rules on skyscrapers over wind tunnel fears
Developers will have to modify designs deemed likely to affect cyclists and pedestrians
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Left to rot: the new global effort to preserve lost monuments
From a railway run by children in Ljubljana to brutalist monuments in the Balkans, the Nonument Group maps abandoned 20th-century architecture
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Stirling prize 2019 shortlist: from a cork creation to a Teletubbies-style whisky distillery
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