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  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2020
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    Rooms at the top: the cutting-edge homes appearing on high-rise roofs

    Architects are exploiting unused spaces, which provide instant citywide views in sought-after locations

  • Friday, 7 February, 2020
    Design
    Surrealism to Ikea — inside the history of interior design

    An exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum explores the evolution of domestic decor

  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2020
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    Now our online data has been mined, big tech is coming for our faces

  • Friday, 24 January, 2020
    Architecture
    Inside Nithurst Farm — an architect’s sci-fi dream

    Adam Richards’ rural home has won Wallpaper’s Best New Private House award

  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2020
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    Portugal’s architects finding inspiration from the economic crisis

    Downturn and sense of place help foster daring, distinctive interventions and newbuilds

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    Plans to redesign Smithfield meat market as a tourist haven will destroy the soul of the site

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    A Brussels non-profit is fighting waste by helping designers reuse salvaged building components

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    Climate change is prompting architects to build innovative structures under the ground

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    A new show at London’s Royal Academy asks how art, architecture and design can address climate change

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    There’s nothing new about tomorrow’s city

    Recycling and reimagining buildings will be crucial to the circular urban economy

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    A show about showing: Art on Display at the Gulbenkian

    Rather than art itself, the Lisbon museum is showcasing fresh ways of exhibiting

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
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    Best books of 2019: Architecture and design

    Edwin Heathcote selects his must-read titles

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    Reimagining the workplace

    Second Home’s shared workspaces use adventurous designs to foster wellbeing

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    Flights of fancy: from the urbane grandeur of Tempelhof to Singapore’s indoor waterfall

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    Edward Cullinan, pioneer of eco-architecture, 1931-2019

    His work was recognised for meticulous attention to detail, landscape and context

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    How the Bauhaus architects reshaped conservative 1930s Britain

    Though Walter Gropius and his fellow practitioners lived and worked in the UK for a short time, their influence was significant

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    The Design Museum takes a thrilling leap into the future with an exhibition imagining life on Mars

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    A prodigious polymath who breathed life into buildings

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    ReviewArchitecture
    Chicago’s Architecture Biennial is a radical take on tough themes

    The event’s third instalment abounds in hidden narratives but offers few new buildings

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