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Posts tagged 'Charles Holland'

Hand Held to Super Scale: Building with Ceramics

Detail of ceramic tiles designed for the House for Essex by Grayson Perry. Photo by Jack Hobhouse A new exhibition at the Building Centre showcases

Opinion

When architecture becomes art

Now open to the public, architect Konstantin Melnikov’s Moscow home was at the heart of a bitter ownership dispute that pitted its use as a

Opinion

Turncoats: Ornament is Crime is Crime

A mash-up of architecture debate and comedy panel show proved a refreshing format, though the audience was slow to get in the spirit, reports Peter

Opinion

‘Essex, it turns out, is a hotbed of modernist experimentation’

Beyond the A13, the staid seaside towns and the flat, muddy fields of its heartland lies an alternative Essex – an unlikely hotbed of radical

Architecture

The trouble with bridges

Spanning a river was once an exercise in elegance and beauty, but today’s bridges express nothing but their own structural virtuosity. Bridge design, it seems,

Design

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

Charles Holland enjoys a Pynchonesque novel set in the world of branding and “corporate anthropology” – with a suspiciously Koolhaas-like main character To start with,

Opinion

The architecture of London Zoo

The history of London Zoo’s architecture is a record of our changing attitudes to nature and animal welfare, as grand aesthetic statements have been replaced

Architecture

Icon 140: Zoos

Our new issue, out on 8 January, features Bernard Tschumi’s updated Parc Zoologique de Paris, Bjarke Ingels’s human zoo and Charles Holland’s musings on modernism

Opinion

Slacklands by Corinna Dean

Britain’s recent past is illuminated by a survey of some of its bleakest rural buildings, finds Charles Holland In recent years, there has been a

Opinion

William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain

Less an architect, more a stage manager of buildings and gardens, Kent’s mastery of artifice defined an age William Kent (1685-1748) was one of the

Opinion

Editor's choice

Gubi reimagines Pierre Paulin’s 1960s F300 Lounge Chair with sustainable materials for a new era

Lucas Zito explores the evolving design capabilities of 3D printing

Meet MVE-Collection: The design studio transforming construction waste into statement furniture and objects

Copenhagen Architecture Biennial slows down to highlight caring approaches to people and the planet

Interface Design Studio: End to end inspiration

Harriet Allure’s Zenzi candle weaves together Swedish minimalism and Ghanaian heritage

Dubai Design Week 2025: Isola launches its new Isola Space and unveils three curated exhibitions

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

LAYER designs a modular foam-free camping mattress system for sleep start-up MAZZU




Architects

Copenhagen Architecture Biennial slows down to highlight caring approaches to people and the planet

The newly opened Darsena Listening Suite at Il Sereno in Lake Como is a playground for audiophiles

How Lake Como Design Festival became the quiet leader of a slow, local design revolution

Architects join forces to design birdhouse project for charity auction at Christie’s

Triennale Milano presents 24th International Exhibition under the title Inequalities

Lee Broom unveils his first Landmark commission for London Design Festival

Architectural practice Local Local unveils a new contemporary art gallery in the heart of Athens

Archikon Architects uses prefabricated panel structure to build Hungary’s first smart kindergarten

Meet Me Here exhibition by Spacon & X at Danish Architecture Center explores community and sense of place in a digital world


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Gubi reimagines Pierre Paulin’s 1960s F300 Lounge Chair with sustainable materials for a new era

Lucas Zito explores the evolving design capabilities of 3D printing

Meet MVE-Collection: The design studio transforming construction waste into statement furniture and objects

Harriet Allure’s Zenzi candle weaves together Swedish minimalism and Ghanaian heritage

Dubai Design Week 2025: Isola launches its new Isola Space and unveils three curated exhibitions

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

LAYER designs a modular foam-free camping mattress system for sleep start-up MAZZU

How Poland’s economic boom is fuelling a design revolution

Henry Holland Studio unveils its inaugural furniture collection


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Gubi reimagines Pierre Paulin’s 1960s F300 Lounge Chair with sustainable materials for a new era

Lucas Zito explores the evolving design capabilities of 3D printing

Meet MVE-Collection: The design studio transforming construction waste into statement furniture and objects

Copenhagen Architecture Biennial slows down to highlight caring approaches to people and the planet

Interface Design Studio: End to end inspiration

Harriet Allure’s Zenzi candle weaves together Swedish minimalism and Ghanaian heritage

Dubai Design Week 2025: Isola launches its new Isola Space and unveils three curated exhibitions

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

LAYER designs a modular foam-free camping mattress system for sleep start-up MAZZU