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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

Lee Broom invites visitors into a unique showcase of his ground-breaking work from the past year.

La Junqueira to open a second residency with additional co-living spaces for intergenerational connection

Lee Broom unveils his first Landmark commission for London Design Festival

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

Triennale Milano presents 24th International Exhibition under the title Inequalities

New contemporary craft fair comes to Scotland this autumn

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

Forestalgia launches its first multi-sensory furniture concept

Anglepoise celebrates 90 years of its Original 1227 Desk Lamp with a limited-edition iteration




Architects

Lee Broom unveils his first Landmark commission for London Design Festival

Triennale Milano presents 24th International Exhibition under the title Inequalities

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

A slice of heaven: The Puglian trulli offering pure escapism

Ismael Medina Manzano designs small apartment in San Sebastián with flexible living spaces

The Brecon designed by Nicemakers combines local craftsmanship and Welsh design touches to create midcentury-inspired interior

Return of a legend: Gathering revives Cologne’s iconic Café Central


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Lee Broom invites visitors into a unique showcase of his ground-breaking work from the past year.

La Junqueira to open a second residency with additional co-living spaces for intergenerational connection

Lee Broom unveils his first Landmark commission for London Design Festival

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

New contemporary craft fair comes to Scotland this autumn

Forestalgia launches its first multi-sensory furniture concept

Anglepoise celebrates 90 years of its Original 1227 Desk Lamp with a limited-edition iteration

Meet YOUTH: The interior design studio seeking to enhance connection through a human-centred approach

Meet the creative duo behind Deya – the Turkish homewares brand merging traditional craft and contemporary design


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Lee Broom invites visitors into a unique showcase of his ground-breaking work from the past year.

La Junqueira to open a second residency with additional co-living spaces for intergenerational connection

Lee Broom unveils his first Landmark commission for London Design Festival

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

Triennale Milano presents 24th International Exhibition under the title Inequalities

New contemporary craft fair comes to Scotland this autumn

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

Forestalgia launches its first multi-sensory furniture concept

Anglepoise celebrates 90 years of its Original 1227 Desk Lamp with a limited-edition iteration