Posts tagged 'review'

Between beauty and the sublime: Water After All

Still from Vertigo Sea by British filmmaker John Akomfrah, 2015. Image: Smoking Dogs Films. MCA Chicago explores how the source of all life also nourishes

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Formafantasma’s century-spanning exhibition Cambio takes a holistic view of wood exploitation

The Serpentine Sackler has been filled with wood, and infused with specially-designed scents. Photo: George Darrell. The Amsterdam-based design duo’s exhibition at the Serpentine serves

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Cars: Accelerating the Modern World is a serious crowd pleaser

General Motors Firebird I (XP 21). Photo by General Motors Company LLC, courtesy of the V&A The car is arguably one of the most transformative

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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

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Stanley Kubrick: An Exhibition shows he was as much designer as director

Still from 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick (1965–68). © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Kubrick’s obsessive attention to detail made him murder to

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The definitive guide to Venice Biennale Pavilions 2018

Connected by the loose theme of Freespace, this year’s national pavilions were particularly eclectic. Joe Lloyd tours the highlights of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018

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Design as an Attitude: Alice Rawsthorn at her best when confronting conservatism

Alice Rawsthorn is a former director at the Design Museum. Photo: Michael Leckie Alice Rawsthorn argues that design has never been better placed to serve

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New Town Utopia: A portrait of Basildon

Basil Spence’s Brooke House, completed in 1962 and now grade II-listed Christopher Ian Smith’s documentary portrait of Basildon charts a familar journey from postwar optimism

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Review- Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style

Normandie in New York 1935 39, photo courtesy of Collection French Lines V&A’s exibition reveals Ocean Liners as the most intense, total works of

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Superstructures: is high tech architecture making a comeback?

High tech superstructures are re-examined in a new exhibition. Edwin Heathcote examines a movement full of contradictions. Superstructures is a cute title for an exhibition.

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