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The car park as a way of life
The designers of Tate Modern and the Bird’s Nest transform the bleak darkness of a multistorey garage into a sculptural structure, reviving it as a Miami symbol, writes Edwin Heathcote
Bauhaus 1919-1933, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The revival of modern design approaches its apotheosis with this Bauhaus blowout, a survey that is at once focused and bountiful, shrewd and sprawling, writes Ariella Budick
An elegant work of diplomatic architecture
The new British embassy in Warsaw, designed by Tony Fretton, is intelligent, dignified and ethereal, says Edwin Heathcote
Beauty in form and function
Two influential galleries on opposite sides of the Atlantic are about to open their first design displays, writes Edwin Heathcote, and though they have diffferent approaches, they also have something in common: Konstantin Grcic
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A huge redevelopment of the self-proclaimed “world’s oldest public museum” has increased the floor area by 50 per cent, rethought the method of display and flooded the place with light and colour, writes Robin Blake
Dallas’s new cultural buildings
Edwin Heathcoate wonders if the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre and the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House can help animate the cultural life of this ‘epicentre of the generic’
David Chipperfield’s first UK exhibition
The Stirling Prize winner’s disappointment in the UK shows the lack of a serious discussion of architecture, writes Edwin Heathcote
The greening of Arabia
It is easy to snipe at Abu Dhabi’s ambitious, futuristic and slightly absurd plan to build Masdar, the world’s first eco-city, but Edwin Heathcote says it may yet bear dividends for us all
Investors seek to revive faded glory of Cairo
Whatever their state, the buildings of central Cairo represent a rich architectural heritage.
Square the Block, London School of Economics
Edwin Heathcote visits a strange and arresting addition to this city’s stiff, imperial attempt at a Parisian boulevard
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