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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

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Editor’s Picks: 5 highlights from Lake Como Design Festival

FLOOR_STORY launches bold new collections at the London Design Festival

Archaeology of the Future

7 things to see at London Design Festival 2023

ICON 213 : Autumn 2023

Iris Ceramica Group – thank you for submitting your RSVP

Iris Ceramica Group

Bunn Studio draws on the classic virtues of Danish design for new Garde Hvalsøe showroom

Pietre Incise by Lithos Design: modular coverings with infinite applications




Architects

Bunn Studio draws on the classic virtues of Danish design for new Garde Hvalsøe showroom

What is the possible endgame for The Line, one of the most viral and controversial architectural projects?

Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects by András Szántó

How recycled hospital equipment is transformed into a plastic pavilion designed for inhospitable climates

The Sustainable City looks at how truly good architecture can transform a city

Copenhagen-based research and design lab SPACE10 explores the building blocks of future homes that give back

Visual artist Michal Zahornacky’s drone photographs make reality look like fiction

Why architects need to consider emotional inhabitance

The iconic Buchli house at USM’s Münsingen campus in Switzerland is back in use


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Editor’s Picks: 5 highlights from Lake Como Design Festival

FLOOR_STORY launches bold new collections at the London Design Festival

7 things to see at London Design Festival 2023

Why brand space needs pace: what we can learn from the art of filmmaking

Arina Shokouhi, the designer of the Ecovado, believes that experimenting should begin at home

Bryan O’Sullivan Studio launches first collection of furniture, lighting and objects

British designer Faye Toogood on creating contemporary classics

Design Icon: The Fiat Nuova Cinquecento brought driving to the Italian masses

US-based surface innovator Kaijie Chen talks tech and visual artistry


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Editor’s Picks: 5 highlights from Lake Como Design Festival

FLOOR_STORY launches bold new collections at the London Design Festival

Archaeology of the Future

7 things to see at London Design Festival 2023

ICON 213 : Autumn 2023

Iris Ceramica Group – thank you for submitting your RSVP

Iris Ceramica Group

Bunn Studio draws on the classic virtues of Danish design for new Garde Hvalsøe showroom

Pietre Incise by Lithos Design: modular coverings with infinite applications