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Posts tagged 'Mies van der Rohe'

Mecanoo transforms Mies van der Rohe’s MLK Library

The Washington DC library honouring the civil rights leader has been revitalised with new spaces, a public roof garden and a social focus Dutch architecture

Architecture

Neue Nationalgalerie reopens after ‘surgical’ restoration by David Chipperfield

The iconic Berlin gallery designed by Mies van der Rohe underwent an extensive refurbishment which balanced conservation with future needs The Neue Nationalgalerie, the modernist

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 Barcelona Chair: A modernist classic

The Barcelona Chair: A modernist classic

The Barcelona Chair is one of the most recognisable and iconic designs of the last century. Still frequently used in interiors, the chair epitomises elegance

Design

Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies van der Rohe

Why Mies van der Rohe’s final building is perhaps his most iconic. By Beatrice Galilee It was in Berlin that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe began

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An architectural tour of Barcelona’s iconic buildings

  Everyone knows that Barcelona houses the many peculiar works of Antoni Gaudi, but here are a few other buildings that you should know about

Architecture

Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion heralded the modernist era

The Barcelona Pavilion was a hugely significant temporary structure that forms part of the early modernist canon of architecture Designed by modernism’s golden child Mies

Architecture

Mies van der Rohe: From the Bauhaus to the height of modernism

German-American architect Mies van der Rohe is one of the pioneers of the modernist movement, devising in a paper sketch the world’s first glass skyscraper

Architecture

How the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar uses architecture to link the design movement to Germany’s past and present

 Visualisation of the detail on the front of the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar. Image courtesy of the Heike Hanada Laboratory of Art and Architecture In

Architecture

The only chair design that changed the world

  It’s the only chair that can truly claim to have changed the world. Elizabeth Guffey asks why it’s rarely included in the design canon From modern

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Design London makes LDF debut this September

James Gorst Architects complete new temple complex in Hampshire

An interview with Mimi Shodeinde on creating sculptural furniture and lighting for Miminat Designs

Arts Council Malta to present Urban Fabric by Open Square Collective at the London Design Biennale 2023

Architects fardaa turn a dilapidated barn on the Isle of Mull into an airy restaurant

Our highlights from London Craft Week 2023

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

New York studio Particle recycles footwear into furniture and homeware designs

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

The ICON Guide to Clerkenwell Design Week 2023




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James Gorst Architects complete new temple complex in Hampshire

Architects fardaa turn a dilapidated barn on the Isle of Mull into an airy restaurant

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

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

At the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the curators of the British pavilion draw from diaspora placemaking

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

Johannes Torpe Studios draw upon Italian and Japanese aesthetics to design new Copenhagen restaurant

Ladbroke Hall is reimagined as a meeting place for artistic expression

The must-see design and architecture events this spring


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An interview with Mimi Shodeinde on creating sculptural furniture and lighting for Miminat Designs

Arts Council Malta to present Urban Fabric by Open Square Collective at the London Design Biennale 2023

Our highlights from London Craft Week 2023

New York studio Particle recycles footwear into furniture and homeware designs

The ICON Guide to Clerkenwell Design Week 2023

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

Vitra, the Eames Office and Herman Miller unveil a limited-edition design with Steinberg Cat

Swedish label Sandqvist collaborates with Emmely Elgersma to bring Nordic style to London

The must-see design and architecture events this spring


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Design London makes LDF debut this September

James Gorst Architects complete new temple complex in Hampshire

An interview with Mimi Shodeinde on creating sculptural furniture and lighting for Miminat Designs

Arts Council Malta to present Urban Fabric by Open Square Collective at the London Design Biennale 2023

Architects fardaa turn a dilapidated barn on the Isle of Mull into an airy restaurant

Our highlights from London Craft Week 2023

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

New York studio Particle recycles footwear into furniture and homeware designs

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

The ICON Guide to Clerkenwell Design Week 2023