All Culture articles – Page 24
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ReviewHands off this architectural masterpiece!
This conference on James Stirling’s red university buildings saw feelings running high about proposals to alter one of them, the Engineering Department at Leicester
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ReviewBristol's architectural brave new world?
Two Belgian artists undertake an architectural reworking of Bristol’s waterfront for this show at the Arnolfini gallery
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NewsBaroque 1620 – 1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence (Video)
Michael Snodin, curator of the V&A’s Baroque exhibition gives BD a guided tour, and explains to Liz Bury why its architecture was such a clear expression of the time.
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ReviewBaroque 1620 – 1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence
The V&A’s new blockbuster spring show opens with a painting that celebrates the Swedish Queen Christina’s conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism. It shows a riotous procession of ornate floats, dancers and horsemen with unfeasibly large headdresses thronging the square in her honour. Welcome to the party.
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ReviewBuildings in bloom
Upcoming cultural attractions with an architectural tinge this spring include more Le Corbusier, the Baroque and Milan’s furniture fair
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ReviewRut Blees Luxemburg’s visions of decades
Photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg is diversifying from the images for which she’s best known
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ReviewRock down to view the architecture of Western Avenue
Recent architectural developments along the western route out of London are worth a look
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ReviewHow buildings stand up
An exhibition of Cecil Balmond’s work shows he is all he’s cracked up to be, writes Sanford Kwinter
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ReviewWhen new towns go bad
Indie maestro Darren Hayman has produced a folk opera based on Frederick Gibberd’s 1947 vision for Harlow
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ReviewAsta Gröting’s human formations
This retrospective of sculpture by Asta Gröting at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds traces her influences and antecedents
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ReviewWhitechapel Gallery director Iwona Blaswick's cultural life
The eagerly-anticipated Whitechapel Gallery extension is due to open next week. Here director Iwona Blaswick tells BD about her cultural passions
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ReviewWhen Richard Seifert stalked the land
This take on Richard ‘Colonel’ Seifert’, one of the stalwarts of London’s architectural scene in the 1960s, was a little too cosy
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ReviewLe Corbusier’s Le Cabanon at the RIBA
Le Cabanon, the French Riviera beach home Le Corbusier built for his wife in the 1950s, arrives at the RIBA in a 1:1 reconstruction
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ReviewJohn Bejteman on the architecture of Leeds
A fascinating but little known film made in 1968 by John Betjeman about the architecture of Leeds has been digitised and put online
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ReviewGhostly architecture
How the BBC television drama series Being Human made a star of a terraced house in Bristol
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ReviewTilling infertile architectural ground
There’s a whiff of hypocrisy in Jeremy Till’s call in his latest book for architects to re-engage with the everyday
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ReviewLe Corbusier's lyrical legacy
Jean-Louis Cohen’s lecture at the Barbican last week painted an unexpected picture of Le Corbusier. The academic from New York University Institute of Fine Arts spoke of the architect’s capacity for “lyricism in the machine age”.
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ReviewAlvaro Siza: the epic and the everyday
Why the work of Alvaro Siza, the Portuguese architect who this week receives the RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal, is an inspiration for architects everywhere
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ReviewAlvaro Siza: intensity through dialogue
Alvaro Siza, who will receive the Royal Gold Medal at RIBA tonight, talks to Ellis Woodman about his influences
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ReviewIain Sinclair’s “Hackney, That Rose- Red Empire” is flawed, yet brilliant
Author Iain Sinclair embraces one of London’s maverick hangouts with his usual passion, but it may take some stamina to read it all