Architecture
Architecture
"Dictatorship in the 21st century looks like London or New York"
Moscow shows us that cities created by dictatorships can also have beautiful buildings and welcoming public spaces, says Owen Hatherley. More
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Landscape
Landscape
"Landscape architecture in 2018 provided a bold vision for our shared built environment"
In this Opinion column, Charles A Birnbaum looks back at the highs and lows of landscape architecture over the past year, and predicts that the discipline will continue to blur with other urban fields in 2019. More
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Technology
Technology
"Post-digital architecture will be rough, provisional and crafted by robots"
In the post-digital age, architects will be designing in code and robots will be constructing our buildings, says Owen Hopkins. More
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Design
Design
"Pantone's colour of the year harks of naivety, not optimism"
Pantone's Living Coral shade can't be a harbinger of positivity, says Michelle Ogundehin, when real coral reefs are being devastated by global warming. More
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Bauhaus 100
Bauhaus 100
"Appreciating the role of colour in architecture is a great missed opportunity of the Bauhaus"
It's a shame that, although colour theory was taught at the Bauhaus, it wasn’t significantly applied to architecture, says Michelle Ogundehin in this Opinion as part of our Bauhaus 100 series. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"If forests were meant to burn, why not the houses in them?"
Natural disasters like the recent California wildfires are not going to go away, so the only option is to rebuild with temporality in mind, argues Aaron Betsky. More
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Bauhaus 100
Bauhaus 100
"Bauhaus histories tend to be disproportionately dominated by male protagonists"
Women are often edited out of the history of the Bauhaus, says Catherine Slessor, in this Opinion as part of our Bauhaus 100 series. But the role of female Bauhauslers in shaping the course of modern design is at last being addressed. More
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure
"Amazon HQ2 will strain spaces and systems on which all New Yorkers rely"
Amazon HQ2 will only exacerbate New York City's already stretched infrastructure, cramped public spaces and sky-high rents, says Alan G Brake in this Opinion column. More
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Bauhaus 100
Bauhaus 100
"Nowhere did the heritage of the Bauhaus find ground as fertile as in America"
The Bauhaus fundamentally changed the philosophy and methodology of design education in the United States, says Margret Kentgens-Craig, author of The Bauhaus and America, in this Opinion as part of our Bauhaus 100 series. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Calgary's New Central Library is an example of the best practices in modern monument making"
Why can't all public libraries be as warm and welcoming as Snøhetta and Dialog's New Central Library for Calgary, asks Aaron Betsky in this Opinion column. More
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Opinion
Opinion
"The beautiful buildings commission is just a front for the continuing attack on progressive ideas"
The historicism of the UK's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission is no laughing matter, says Sam Jacob. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Brian Eno's ideas have unexpected resonance for architecture"
Brian Eno's approach to producing music, through simple, open systems, should be adopted for the design of our towns and cities, says Finn Williams. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"To change Sheffield for the better, the answer might lie in anger and civic action"
Sheffield is one of the UK's most important cities for modern architecture, says Owen Hatherley, and we need to take action to stop it being destroyed. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"The role of the contemporary visualiser is deeply misunderstood"
After architectural visualisers received a bad rap from Aaron Betsky and Es Devlin, Troy Hodgson defends his profession and explains why renderings don't always exactly match the finished buildings they portray. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Just because a building looks ugly, it doesn't make it a bad building"
Buildings like Amin Taha's 15 Clerkenwell Close may not be to everyone's taste, but they deserve to be judged on more than just aesthetics, says deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Hiring an African American woman on your leadership team is a step in the right direction"
Improving the diversity of your architecture firm will help you win more projects, says Gabrielle Bullock. More
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Opinion
Opinion
"Humans are clever. They can solve problems. There is hope"
We are entering a new geological era: the anthropocene, in which human activity is a dominant influence on earth's geology and environment. At Dutch Design Week, a special edition of our Good Design for a Bad World series will ask if design can harness this phenomenon to prevent global catastrophe, writes Marcus Fairs. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"It makes no difference whether you draw with Rhino or a Pelikan"
An architect's tool of choice for visualising designs is not important, says Aaron Betsky, as long as the effects of time and use on the finished creations are considered during the process. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"The world's most sustainable office building isn't enough to save the planet"
Awarding the Stirling Prize to Foster + Partners for its Bloomberg building sends the wrong message and risks runaway global warming. We need a new approach to sustainability says Phineas Harper. More
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Design
Design
"Let's start designing the future that gives us a future"
The United Nations says we have 12 years to take action against climate change, to avoid global disaster. It's the greatest design challenge in history, says Nicolas Roope. More
