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The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Join us in London for the announcement of the winners of the AR Emerging awards 2024 on Thursday 14 November! This year’s shortlist includes architects who are investigating earth and bio‑based materials,…. Architecture is a site of exchange ...
From pillar to lamp post: lighting city streets
Sep 7, 2021 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The history of the street light traces the course of political turbulence and the rise of capitalism. Street lighting might seem like a product of modernity, but there is little new about it. The Romans illuminated their city streets at night and ...
Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) - The Architectural Review
Oct 9, 2019 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. In 2003, at the age of 96, Oscar Niemeyer designed the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London’s Hyde Park. At the time, he was a living legend: the last active modern architect.
The History of Architecture in Eleven Arches
Dec 19, 2014 · Gateway Arch by Eero Saarinen and Hannskarl Bandel, St Louis, 1965. A 192-metre vision in stainless steel, the Gateway Arch is national expansion writ large, an icon of mid-century Modernism that has become architectural shorthand for the city of St Louis. Designed by Eero Saarinen and Hannskarl Bandel, the catenary arch was technically ...
Tadao Ando (1941-) - The Architectural Review
Apr 16, 2020 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The young boxer turned self-trained architect mastered a signature style of concrete and shadow in Japan before exploding onto the global scene. Ando-reputations-illustration-architectural-review-lili-zarzycki. In his 1977 essay In Praise of Shadows ...
Thatch is back: a traditional material could inform new sustainable ...
Jun 28, 2023 · T hatch almost disappeared across Europe in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution. The exception is the low‑lying and watery terrain of the Netherlands, where reed beds – and consequently thatch materials – were part of the vernacular.
Kowloon Walled City: Surreal photographs of day-to-day life …
Apr 9, 2014 · Part of the south elevation, illustrating in the narrowness of its buildings how the Walled City had evolved from a squatter settlement. Individual huts had been redeveloped over time, rising to four or five storeys in the 1950s, then up to nine storeys in the early 1960s and reaching a maximum of 17 storeys in the 1970s.
Typology: The semi-detached house - The Architectural Review
Jul 6, 2015 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Symbol of middle-class aspiration, conservatism and compromised individualism, the semi-detached house is England’s modern domestic type par excellence. ‘My pink half of the drainpipe keeps me safe from you’: so sang the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band ...
Philip Johnson’s AT&T: The Post Post-Deco skyscraper
The trouble with nine days’ wonders in architecture is that buildings take more than nine days to erect. Before AT&T’s distinctive silhouette was any more than a steel outline against the sky, the media abandoned it and ran across the continent to drool over Michael Graves’ Post-Deco cube in Portland, Oregon (AR November 1982).
Cardboard Cathedral by Shigeru Ban in Christchurch, New Zealand
Mar 24, 2014 · The trans-Pacific connections that emerged from the disasters have been reinforced by the completion of Shigeru Ban’s Cardboard Cathedral. The neo-Gothic Anglican cathedral in Christchurch’s central square was the highest-profile architectural casualty of the February earthquake, and cathedral staff soon began pondering the idea of a building to serve as a temporary cathedral and events venue.