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The intimate space within
The architects of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 have achieved something very unusual with London’s first Maggie’s Centre: a robust, highly visible structure sheltering a familiar, embracing, domestic-scaled space, writes Edwin Heathcote
Flirt, marry, merge
‘Skin+Bones’, an exhibition at London’s Somerset House, attempts to expose the symbiosis between architecture and fashion, writes Edwin Heathcote
An art-filled window for the world
Almost 100 exhibitors will come together in ART HK 08, the top-flight modern and contemporary fair that will reinforce Hong Kong’s position as an international marketplace
Bureaucracy brought to book
Jan Kaplicky’s Czech National Library proposal excites, writes Edwin Heathcote
Architecture: A city that works in spite of itself
The show is a commemoration of the work of Design for London, the organisation that is trying to ensure some semblance of intelligence in a city scarred by years of rudderlessness, writes Edwin Heathcote
A building tells a million stories
Renzo Piano who is working on a scheme to transform London’s neglected St Giles quarter talks about 21st century architecture
The award that had a redesign
The Brit Insurance Design Awards, which replace the UK Designer of the Year Awards, have brought a diffuse focus, if that is not an oxymoron, by splitting the 100-strong shortlist into seven categories ranging from architecture to fashion and including a wheelchair for children, writes Edwin Heathcote
The ascent of Manhattan
The towering New Museum marks a high point for New York architecture and is a striking addition to the ragged profile of a tenaciously ungentrified street
The work that makes the noise
LA’s new Broad Contemporary Art Museum would have provided the perfect opportunity to outstrip the theatrical impact of the Pompidou, writes Edwin Heathcote. But in a city where anything goes, architect Renzo Piano lets the pictures do the talking
Rough diamonds by the river
Clad in rusting steel, these little structures occupy a strange border zone that straddles the unselfconscious, ad hoc world of boats, with its decks and jetties, the muddy foreshore and the lumpy brick cliffs of the World’s End Estate, writes Edwin Heathcote
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