Tag: The New Review
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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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Can virtual reality really get you fit?
Our writer dons a headset and turns boxer, air guitarist and saber wielder in a bid to shake off his lockdown lassitude
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The future of the arts: ‘The world is coming into visual art on a human scale’
Our art critic longs to see paintings in person once more, and looks to a future where exhibitions may run longer and borrow less from abroadSusannah Clapp: ‘Online theatre is a skeleton of the thing itself’
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The five: robots helping to tackle coronavirus
Automatons have been chipping in with the effort to beat Covid, from disinfecting hospitals to delivering groceries
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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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20 apps to up your skills
Want something to show for the weeks you have spent in lockdown? These apps will help you achieve your aims