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Posts tagged 'Le Corbusier'

Brutalism: The world’s ugliest buildings are back in fashion

Trellick Tower by Erno Goldfinger. Photo by Jonathan Retico Probably the twentieth century’s most controversial movement, Brutalism was characterised by its utilitarian style, modular elements

Architecture
Form follows function: Modernism’s guiding principles

Form follows function: Modernism’s guiding principles

The Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier is one of the most recognisable example of a modernist house In the first half of the twentieth century,

Architecture

The landscape of humanity: how the countryside holds the keys to the future

The Planta Solar 20 power plant near Seville, Spain. PS20 produces electricity with large movable mirrors called heliostats. Alamy. As climate catastrophe looms, the interdependence

Architecture

How has the industry reacted to Building Better, Building Beautiful report?

Living With Beauty is the final report from the government-appointed commission on the controversial subject of what beautiful housing looks like After 13 months, two

Architecture

How radical was the modernist Frankfurt kitchen?

The Frankfurt Kitchen. Courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s mass-produced, modular kitchen transformed domestic life but shows that modernist efficiency didn’t necessarily lead

Design

Villa Savoye: Le Corbusier’s exemplary modernist building

Villa Savoye is a definitive example of a modernist building. Set in the Parisian suburb of Poissy, it was designed by Swiss architect and modernist

Architecture

Food for thought: Le Corbuffet brings architectural history to the dinner table

Robert Rauschenburger,. Photo by Esther Choi Writing about food has never been so good, or serious, as now. Le Corbuffet, Esther Choi’s book of recipes

Opinion

Why building with concrete has sparked a backlash among architects

Unité d’habitation in Marseille by Le Corbusier. Photo by Ken Ohyama via Flickr It was the miracle product of the post-war period, but its edifice

Design

Le Corbusier: The Swiss architect, his life and work

Notre Dame du Haut, built in Ronchamp, France, in 1955. Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel A century since Le Corbusier began his journey as an

Architecture

Artist sinks Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye in Danish fjord

An enormous replica of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye has been half-sunk off a Danish fjord as part of Vejle’s Floating Art festival, writes Rita Lobo

Architecture

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The imaginary worlds created by Berlin-based designer Anna Cwik

Constantin Prozorov brings his collage art to a collaboration with MINI

Oliver Du Puy transforms a Victorian house in Melbourne into a contemporary sanctuary

Dr Sandra Piesik shows what we can learn from cultures worldwide

Two Australian brothers handcraft their own aluminium furniture style

Can the paint industry work together to find sustainable and less harmful solutions?

Hauser & Wirth’s new art exhibition in rural Somerset celebrates the gallery’s Swiss heritage

imm cologne: a source of inspiration for the world of interior design

Entries are open for the Design Guild Mark Awards 2024




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The imaginary worlds created by Berlin-based designer Anna Cwik

Oliver Du Puy transforms a Victorian house in Melbourne into a contemporary sanctuary

Dr Sandra Piesik shows what we can learn from cultures worldwide

Escape to Danish design hotel The Monica hidden away on the island of Ærø

Space to play: Innovative landscapes inspiring children’s imaginations

The new Centre de sciences Cosmocité opens in France’s Pont-de-Claix

Clément Cividino’s restoration of a 1960s fibreglass pod by Nikolaos Xasteros lands in the Spanish countryside

Bonavista Biennale provides platform for Canadian artists to explore sustainable architecture and art in the most unexpected of places

re:arc is the new philanthropic initiative supporting architectures of planetary wellbeing


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Constantin Prozorov brings his collage art to a collaboration with MINI

Two Australian brothers handcraft their own aluminium furniture style

Can the paint industry work together to find sustainable and less harmful solutions?

Hauser & Wirth’s new art exhibition in rural Somerset celebrates the gallery’s Swiss heritage

Design Icon: &Tradition has released the Jørn Utzon’s classic 1947 lamp in a deep blue

Andreas Murkudis and Muller Van Severen unveil colourful collaboration at Store 77

Liaigre invites Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata to create site-specific intervention at converted Paris mansion

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The imaginary worlds created by Berlin-based designer Anna Cwik

Constantin Prozorov brings his collage art to a collaboration with MINI

Oliver Du Puy transforms a Victorian house in Melbourne into a contemporary sanctuary

Dr Sandra Piesik shows what we can learn from cultures worldwide

Two Australian brothers handcraft their own aluminium furniture style

Can the paint industry work together to find sustainable and less harmful solutions?

Hauser & Wirth’s new art exhibition in rural Somerset celebrates the gallery’s Swiss heritage

imm cologne: a source of inspiration for the world of interior design

Entries are open for the Design Guild Mark Awards 2024