All Features articles – Page 247
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FeaturesThe divine bovine
Rejoicing at Zaha Hadid's Pritzker Prize was understandably slightly mooted west of Offa's Dyke. It's not just that we feared it would offer critics yet another opportunity to remind the world of the lost Cardiff Opera House, but that it would confirm just how out of touch some of us ...
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FeaturesCathedral culture
As all psychogeographers know, the most appealing features of urban landscape – the industrial wastelands, the unconscious anachronisms, the unreconstructed local distinctiveness – are the victims of regeneration and the heritage industry.
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FeaturesShortlisted: Matthew Springett
A number of jury members were familiar with Matthew Spring-ett's Bartlett diploma project. In 1998, his scheme for an urban pig farm in Lower Manhattan won the 1998 RIBA silver medal.
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FeaturesBuildings need bebop
I'm reading Barney Hoskyns' excellent account of the Los Angeles music scene over the past 50 years, Waiting for the Sun; a book I would thoroughly recommend to all architects. Too many of you only read books about architecture, a fact that is reflected in the almost total absence of ...
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FeaturesLord Rogers’ urban revolution
The government taskforce charged with halting the decline of English cities has published its interim report. How will it go about its job?