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Posts tagged 'Oscar Niemeyer'

Sérgio Bernardes

Hotel Tropical Tambaú in João Pessoa, Brazil A documentary explores the radical designs that made Brazilian modernist, playboy and Niemeyer contemporary Sérgio Bernardes a star

Opinion

Rebel Architecture

Yasmeen Lari outside a women’s centre in Sindh, Pakistan. It is built on stilts to withstand floods Al Jazeera’s documentary series adopts a wide definition

Opinion

Beyond the Supersquare

After Clara Porset and Xavier Guerreiro, by Fernanda Fragateiro, 2013 Claire Barliant salutes a brave and overdue attempt to unravel the legacy of modernist architecture

Opinion

United Nations Redesign

It took a team of 11 leading architects to create the United Nations headquarters in 1952. The assemblage of sculptural forms on Manhattan’s east side,

Design

Six of the Best: Vicky Richardson

  Vicky Richardson is director of the British Council Department of Architecture, Design and Fashion since 2010, Richardson was formerly a magazine editor and writer.

Design

Oscar Niemeyer’s International Fair in Tripoli

Oscar Niemeyer’s International Fair in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, was intended as the foundation of a new city quarter, but civil war intervened and it was

Architecture

Icon Magazine

“Icon” is not a word to be used lightly on these pages but, on the occasion of our hundredth issue, somehow it seemed appropriate Icon

Design

Centro Niemeyer by Oscar Niemeyer

Centro Niemeyer is a new cultural centre for the port city of Avilés in northern Spain, designed by the 103-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. Occupying

Architecture

Brasilia

Oscar Niemeyer’s National Museum of the Republic, Brasilia, with his cathedral, left (image: Cristobal Palma) A city can work as a city and as a

Design

Sensate

Airborne Snotty Vase: Pollinosis, by Marcel Wanders, 2001 (image: © Marcel Wanders) A show that blurs body, furniture and space unnerves and delights Tania Ketenjian

Opinion

Editor's choice

Moleskine CEO Christophe Archaimbault on writing as a creative detox

Editor’s Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

Inside the Malmö studio of Swedish designer Jenny Nordberg

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO

10 must-see design exhibitions not to miss in 2026

How architecture studio DEDRAFT revamped a mid-1960s modernist house

5 Highlights from Design Miami 2025

Inside a fully furnished Artemest London penthouse designed by Róisín Lafferty




Architects

LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO

How architecture studio DEDRAFT revamped a mid-1960s modernist house

MoDusArchitects completes contemporary Alpine home in Val di Non

Fondazione MAST kicks off 7th edition of Foto/Industria with a citywide exploration into the meaning of home

Triennale Milano transforms a historic Milan venue into a design-driven stage where music and collaboration lead the way

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


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Moleskine CEO Christophe Archaimbault on writing as a creative detox

Editor’s Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Inside the Malmö studio of Swedish designer Jenny Nordberg

10 must-see design exhibitions not to miss in 2026

5 Highlights from Design Miami 2025

Inside a fully furnished Artemest London penthouse designed by Róisín Lafferty

Meet the creative duo behind Swiss multi-disciplinary design practice Gini Moynier

PINCH reaffirms the beauty of natural materials with its latest collection

Meet the dynamic duo behind collectible design gallery STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN



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Moleskine CEO Christophe Archaimbault on writing as a creative detox

Editor’s Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

Inside the Malmö studio of Swedish designer Jenny Nordberg

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO

10 must-see design exhibitions not to miss in 2026

How architecture studio DEDRAFT revamped a mid-1960s modernist house

5 Highlights from Design Miami 2025

Inside a fully furnished Artemest London penthouse designed by Róisín Lafferty