Tag: buildings
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London is the wild west of the global property market – and it needs a sheriff
We must legislate to curb the overseas tycoons buying up apartments and leaving them empty
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Bamboo airports and psychedelic oil refineries: Richard Rogers’ thrilling legacy
The visionary architect behind some of the world’s favourite landmarks – and some of its most expensive housing – is hanging up his pencil. Our critic assesses his impact
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Certainly a great gesture of optimism: Hublot, Zenith and Loro Piana announce almost simultaneous openings
Hublot, Zenith and Loro Piana express confidence in the Japanese market new flagships in Tokyo’s Ginza district. The almost simultaneous opening of the three Hublot, Zenith and Loro Piana flagships invites the question of why such an attraction for Japan? The Land of the Rising Sun is the world’s biggest market for…
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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