Tag: UK Culture
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Experience Ai Weiwei’s first virtual reality artwork, Omni
Using the frontiers of technology to tell one of the most urgent stories of our time, Omni immerses you in a jungle full of lost elephants and a refugee camp in Bangladesh Simon Hattenstone interviews Ai Weiwei: ‘At least people in the UK are polite’
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Part dinosaur, part Mars bar … it’s the Avatar-inspired Mercedes-Benz!
With the promised sequels endlessly delayed, fans of the environmentalist blockbuster will have to settle for the next best thing: a baffling concept car
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Desert ski slopes and outdoor aircon: can the scorching emirates really go green?
It is one of Earth’s biggest carbon emitters, a place where SUVs roar from manmade islands to malls with ski slopes. Can an architecture triennial in the UAE really teach us how to go green?
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Welcome to Manc-hattan: how the city sold its soul for luxury skyscrapers
Giant towers are sprouting up all over Manchester. But how will sky lounges and penthouse olive groves help the city’s rocketing homelessness problem?
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Million Dollar Wedding Planner review – the woman who makes brides walk on water
Lelian Chew is so good at her job arranging dream ceremonies that she can even perform Biblical miracles. So why does she look so haunted?
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From Cyberpunk 2077 to The Outer Worlds: are role-playing games getting too predictable?
Two forthcoming games are generating a lot of buzz – but they also suggest the genre is in need of a shakeup