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Over pizza in Venice, the architect talks about the importance of ideas in building design
The Turner prize-winning artist talks about her passion for collecting lost objects and finding pathos in the overlooked and the ordinary
The remodelled Shakespeare Memorial Theatre looks good, but the steel and glass language of the corporate modern is not nuanced enough
Norman Foster’s modernist addition is part of an emerging trend for tasteful surgical intervention
Out-of-focus snaps subtly convey the darkness inherent in London as portrayed in Chris Petit’s novel
Architect Michael Manser’s influence on the development of British postwar architecture inspired a Riba award in his name
Built of smooth concrete and aluminium, Zaha Hadid’s first school building is a celebration of sport and speed
Shrinking state services threaten diverse city centres
Do we need art because we have lost faith in ideas of beauty and function?
Simon Fujiwara’s installation of a partially discovered lost civilisation is every bit provocative
The celebrated architect on ‘messy’ designs, modest materials and his role in ‘The Simpsons’
At home with brutalist architect Owen Luder, who created many of Britain’s best-known modernist structures
John Pawson, whose stripped-down style was touted as setting the scene for the new millennium, talks about why monks make the ideal clients
‘Embrace failure’ is the new manifesto of ‘anti-design’, according to designer and visual thinker Neville Brody
The bedroom is, in architectural terms, a relatively recent invention
Moscow’s Strelka is the world’s first postgraduate research-only school of architecture, design and media
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