All 50 Wonders articles
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Patty Hopkins: Lucca, Tuscany
Bringing Building Design’s anniversary series to a close with a bang, Patty Hopkins, co-founder of Hopkins Architects, considers the ingredients of a very special place
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Jerry Tate: Lingotto Factory, Turin
The director of Tate+Co Architects celebrates the richness that reuse has layered on to Turin’s fomer Fiat Factory
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Tracy Meller: Pompidou Centre, Paris
The senior partner at RSHP recalls the first time she set eyes on the building that would shape her career
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Chloe Phelps: Page Street housing by Edwin Lutyens
The chief executive of Grounded - an architect, developer and planner by background - picks Lutyens’ only social housing project as her Wonder
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Smith Mordak: Floating reed island villages, Iraq
A 6,000-year-old community in southern Iraq has much to teach us in an age of climate fragility, writes Smith Mordak, newly appointed chief exec of the UK Green Building Council
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Minesh Patel: New Art Gallery, Walsall
The founder of Digbeth-based Minesh Patel Architects invites us to his local art gallery - which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize the year Peckham Library won
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Simon Henley: Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism University of São Paulo
Simon Henley shares his thoughts on João Vilanova Artigas’ university building in Brazil
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Fiona Scott: Teatro Teresa Carreno and Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
The Gort Scott founding director explores the fluctuating meaning of two neighbouring institutions in Venezuela’s capital city
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Sheila Carney: Farnsworth House, Illinois
The director of Scott Tallon Walker’s London studio describes the enduring influence of Mies’ masterpiece on her practice
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Rab Bennetts: Ford Foundation, New York
The Bennetts Associates co-founder recalls his inspiring first trip to Manhattan
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Alice Brownfield: Dawson’s Heights
On International Women’s Day, Alice Brownfield argues Kate Macintosh’s south London social housing is a landmark in every sense – and a call to arms
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Nimi Attanayake: Kandalama Hotel, Sri Lanka
Geoffrey Bawa’s hotel perched on a ridge and surrounded by jungle offers guests an extraordinary experience. The Nimtim co-founder takes us there
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Hana Loftus: Temple Mount, Jerusalem
The Hat Projects co-founder recalls her surprise at experiencing how a place she knew well from books was inhabited in real life
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Sally Lewis: Piazza Del Campo, Siena
The Stitch Architects founder celebrates one of the most beautiful squares in Italy
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Justin Nicholls: Creek Vean
The Fathom Architects director recalls a formative visit to Team 4’s seminal Cornish house
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Denise Bennetts: Royal College of Physicians
The Bennetts Associates co-founder appreciates Denys Lasdun’s daring response to a historic site
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Dav Bansal: Lakeshore Drive Apartments
Dav Bansal recalls the thrill of visiting Mies’ influential Chicago towers for the first time
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Yasmin Al-Ani Spence: Villa Tugendhat
The Wilkinson Eyre director picks the Mies classic for its technical innovation as much as its aesthetics
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | John Tuomey: The Aran Islands, Ireland
The O’Donnell & Tuomey co-founder and RIBA Gold Medal winner (with Sheila O’Donnell) explains his love for the structures and geology of the wild isles