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    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Masterpiece London 2022
      How sculpture park Jupiter Artland reached for the stars

      Nicky and Robert Wilson’s collection has grown to almost 40 site-specific outdoor artworks, including Tracey Emin and Cornelia Parker

      A circular swimming pool incorporating and surrounded by a loopy colourful design in its tiles
    • Friday, 17 September, 2021
      House & Home
      Charles Jencks, the man who mistook his house for a postmodern manifesto

      The critic designed Cosmic House, in west London, with ideas to replace Modernism and around themes of time and space

      The Winter Room, Charles Jencks’s Cosmic House
    • Thursday, 17 October, 2019
      Obituary
      Charles Jencks, architect and architectural historian, 1939-2019

      A prodigious polymath who breathed life into buildings

      Photographed sitting down outside the front of the building, Charles Jencks at Maggie's Centre at Charing Cross Hospital, Portrait, Europe, United Kingdom, 2008, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Portrait of Architect and co-founder of Maggie's Centres. (Photo by View Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
    • Friday, 4 January, 2019
      Architecture
      Architect Charles Jencks on the Bauhaus — what is its legacy 100 years on?

      The movement brought together the most creative team of artists and designers that crossed paths in the 20th century

      Frau im Clubsessel B3 von Marcel Breuer, Maske von Oskar Schlemmer, Kleid von Lis Beyer
    • Thursday, 3 November, 2016
      Recruitment
      Maggie’s cancer charity chief has grand architectural designs

      Laura Lee has commissioned architects from Hadid to Gehry to build therapeutic centres

    • Tuesday, 8 September, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Maggie’s Centres: a sanctuary from sickness

      The pioneering cancer centres are using art to aid and empower patients

      Statue by Antony Gormley at Maggie's Centre, Dundee
    • Friday, 26 June, 2015
      Life & Arts
      The Crawick Multiverse: sandpit becomes land art

      Garden designer Charles Jencks has turned an abandoned coal mine into a playful representation of the wilder reaches of modern physics

      A supercluster and galaxies at Crawick Multiverse
    • Friday, 14 September, 2012
      David Tang
      The mark of a gentleman

      What’s your position on tattoos? I have a tattoo, but I confess that tattoos are not for gents

    • Sunday, 2 September, 2012
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Northumberlandia, Cramlington, Northumberland

      Charles Jencks’s ‘Goddess of the North’ is both a sensual, cryptic artwork and land reclamation on a grand scale

      Charles Jencks’s 'Northumberlandia' was created from 1.5m tonnes of rock, clay and soil discarded from a neighbouring surface mine
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