Reality is brutal.
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With Robin Hood Gardens in danger of being destroyed, it’s time to look beyond appearances and recognise its real value.
London’s famous Shard is one big window, but bricks and wood are more efficient.
Bill Smith
Air conditioning alone won’t make global warming more bearable – architects must reinvent the window.
Every time and MP coughs, a gargoyle dies.
Graeme Maclean
Some wild ideas have been put forward for the UK’s seat of power over the years.
Completed in 2009, Citi Field is the home of the New York Mets – and part of a recent wave of new ballparks.
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TV ratings are down, but the rebirth of the ballpark could be a reason that the sport still boasts the highest total attendance of any in the world.
In cities like Nashville and Vancouver, home teardowns are on the rise.
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Home teardowns are often unnecessary and costly, in more ways than one.
Burntwood School is up for the prestigious architectural prize.
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A university building and a school are two of the six buildings shortlisted for the Stirling Prize.
Pots, pillars and electric bulb sockets at the Nek Chand Rock Garden in Chandigarh, India.
Giridhar Appaji Nag Y
The country lost two utterly different, and utterly compelling interpreters of India’s urban world this month. They left a legacy rich with beauty and meaning.
‘Here I am, the most intelligent robot in the galaxy, welding a bridge.’
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3D printing robots are to create a new bridge in Amsterdam - would you walk on it?
Taking decisions.
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Architects should experiment with cues that encourage potential thieves to make unconscious decisions not to steal.
The 34-storey timber tower planned for Stockholm.
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Until recently, tall wooden towers were an engineering impossibility. Following a breakthrough a few years ago, the sky is increasingly the limit.
A TWA annual report from the early 1960s featured its gleaming new terminal.
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With air travel no longer possessing the romantic allure it once did, the structure is slated to become a hotel.
Kathmandu’s Darbar Square was one of the worst affected by the earthquake.
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Hundreds of monuments of the Kathmandu Valley’s World Heritage sites were completely destroyed on April 25. Here’s the story of a few of them.
Beautifully rendered: rammed earth walls don’t typically need decorating.
Rammed earth has been used for centuries, for buildings that have stood the test of time, including China’s Great Wall. It’s also cheap and environmentally friendly, so why aren’t modern architects embracing it?
The initials ‘ES’ on the parapets are those of Elizabeth Talbot, who built Hardwick Hall.
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Women played a far greater role in designing, commissioning and building country houses, gardens and parklands than was once imagined.
Architect and designer Michael Graves in a 1962 photograph. Graves passed away earlier this month.
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From his line of Target homeware to his one-of-a-kind buildings, Michael Graves was inspired by the basic needs of everyday people.
Ringing through the changes.
Hernán Piñera
The Palace of Westminster is due to undergo a refurbishment and the original designs for its ventilation system are still relevant today.
Using the image of the most famous 19th-century land rights activist may be a backhanded tribute.
Peter Bennetts
Melbourne’s new landmark building celebrates the Indigenous leader William Barak. But what should we make of the overt association between its luxury apartments and Barak’s lifelong struggle over land?
Santana Row, located in San Jose, California, is one of many Lifestyle Centers cropping up around the country. Parading themselves as a Main Street from a bygone era, these new retail centers hope to recreate what was lost in the rush to cover America with large malls from the 1950s through the 1990s.
Santana Row
Meet the indoor shopping mall’s hipper, “New Urbanist” cousin.
Different inside and out.
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It is 1529. Cardinal Wolsey leaves his palace at York Place, giving way to the triumphant Anne Boleyn, who holds court in the long gallery. But this York Place is not the princely residence of the Archbishops…
Mixed-income developments replace Chicago’s Cabrini-Green Homes: Old Town Village West townhouses rise in front of the last remaining towers (since demolished) in this 2009 photograph.
For decades, public housing stood as the most architecturally visible and politically stigmatized reminder of urban poverty in many American cities. Originally built to accommodate an upwardly mobile segment…