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Comparing two small houses by Go Hasegawa in Japan Subscription Required

22 December 2011 | By Andrew Wilson

Two dwellings display an equally deft approach to the constraints of the suburb and the freedom of the forest

The 17-Storey Tower

Lacaton & Vassal's revitalisation of a Parisian tower block Subscription Required

22 December 2011 | By Andrew Ayers

The striking transformation of a run-down tower in northern Paris suggests an alternative approach to the physical and social redevelopment of decaying post-war housing

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Lutheran church by Johan Celsing follows in the footsteps of Lewerentz Subscription Required

21 December 2011 | By Edwin Heathcote

A dark brick box perforated by cool, pale light forms an austere yet serenely numinous setting for Lutheran worship in a Stockholm

The rough texture of the concrete walls evokes Clyfford Still’s energetic, impassioned brushstrokes

Allied Works's arresting art museum in Denver Subscription Required

21 December 2011 | By Michael Webb

A major new art museum dedicated to the life and work of Clyfford Still draws on the expressive energy and elementality of the painter’s oeuvre

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Glen Howells Architects challenge conventions of volume house building Subscription Required

20 December 2011 | By Crispin Kelly

Conceived as an exemplary riposte to the dreariness and mediocrity of most volume housebuilding, this new residential scheme in Swindon actively engages with ideas about community, sustainability and place

Joint Winner: Kantana Film and Anitmation Institute, Thailand

Joint Winner of ar+d awards : Film Institute by Boonserm Premthada, Thailand Subscription Required

23 November 2011 | By Pirak Anurakyawachon

A worthy joint winner, Premthada’s Film Institute broadcasts itself in rural Thailand. With an air of Eladio Dieste, adept brickwork directs the design and prompts an inventive way of looking at interactive space

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21 September 2010

The Architectural Review is looking for enthusiastic architectural students and graduates to join its editorial team as part of its internship programme

Basmah Kaki's RIBA medal winning project

Award Winning Acoustic Sanctuary by Basmah Kaki Subscription Required

27 January 2012 | By Maria Kuzmenko

This RIBA President’s medal winning project the building engages its users in educational programmes, while transforming the abrasive sounds of quarrying

Renzo Piano talks about The Shard

Pioneers of Modernism: Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann

Modernist Pioneers exhibition in Vienna Subscription Required

23 December 2011 | By Andrew Mead

New exhibition in the Lower Belvedere celebrates the 150th anniversary of Klimt’s birth.  

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Urbanism and Architecture at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Biennale Subscription Required

22 December 2011 | By Raymund Ryan

Shenzhen is not Venice but it does have an architectural biennale

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Eric Owen Moss speaks at the RIBA Subscription Required

21 December 2011 | By Jack Self

A review of the ninth annual Jencks Award winner’s RIBA lecture.

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Comparing two small houses by Go Hasegawa in Japan Subscription Required

22 December 2011 | By Andrew Wilson

Two dwellings display an equally deft approach to the constraints of the suburb and the freedom of the forest

The Architectural Review: January 2012

Saturated Space – A brilliantly layered church interior in the otherwise austere town of Gordes

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23 January 2012

The Architectural Review is Media Partner for the Saturated Space Cluster, a forum for the sharing, exploration, and celebration of colour in architecture

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RCA ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES 2011/12 Subscription Required

23 November 2011

Over a series of five lectures, ten high-profile speakers will share their cutting-edge research

Designed by Renzo PIano, London Bridge Tower, nicknamed the Shard, was part of a mayoral drive to give London a ‘world-class’ city skyline. But though it extols its mixed-use credentials and will improve the public realm, it is an incontrovertibly overbea

The Big Rethink – Towards a Complete Architecture Subscription Required

21 December 2011 | By Peter Buchanan

AR’s new campagn is launched with a critical broadside at the many “Starchitects” of the industry from Peter Buchanan

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Deal or No Deal in Durban Subscription Required

21 December 2011 | By Harald N Røstvik

In the anticlimactic aftermath of the COP17 Climate Change Conference, how can architects respond in the face of overwhelming political apathy?

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Innovators interview – Renzo Piano Subscription Required

17 December 2011 | By Rob Gregory

Video: Renzo Piano is the subject of this month’s Innovators interview from the top of The Shard in London, produced in partnership with Hunter Douglas

Prehistoric buildings hold an overlooked social complexity

Prehistoric buildings hold an overlooked social complexity

27 December 2011 | By Timothy Taylor

The discovery of the oldest known wooden stairway in Europe, preserved in an Alpine saltmine, revealed astonishing levels of design sophistication among some of our distant ancestors. Timothy Taylor muses on Bronze Age construction and placemaking and the effects that prehistoric architecture may have had on social control.

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21 December 2011 | By Matthew Barac

Should the serious business of sustainability be a laughing matter? According to the holistic learning principles promoted by CAT, the combination of green technology, having fun and fresh country air can lead to making better buildings.

Designed by Renzo PIano, London Bridge Tower, nicknamed the Shard, was part of a mayoral drive to give London a ‘world-class’ city skyline. But though it extols its mixed-use credentials and will improve the public realm, it is an incontrovertibly overbea

The Big Rethink – Towards a Complete Architecture Subscription Required

21 December 2011 | By Peter Buchanan

AR’s new campagn is launched with a critical broadside at the many “Starchitects” of the industry from Peter Buchanan

Antique embroidered panel showing life in old Suzhou, long swept away in China’s dash for growth. The country’s next challenge is to forge coherent practical and political responses to notions of sustainable development. Christophe Loviny/corbis

View From – Suzhou, China Subscription Required

25 December 2011 | By Austin Williams

As the COP17 talks emphasise the need for action on climate change, China is using sustainable development as a political tool

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Going for Gold at the RIBA and the AIA Subscription Required

21 December 2011 | By William JR Curtis

Reflecting on the medal winning success of Herman Hertzberger and Steven Holl

From its ‘war address’ in Cheam, the AR surveys a brave new post-war world in August 1945

Troubles in Theory: Picturesque Postmodernism Subscription Required

20 December 2011 | By Anthony Vidler

The second essay in AR’s series: Troubles in Theory

EMERGING ARCHITECTURE

Celebrating the winners of the 2011 ar + d awards Subscription Required

23 November 2011

This issue celebrates the winners of the 2011 ar+d Awards for Emerging Architecture

Joint Winner: Kantana Film and Anitmation Institute, Thailand

Joint Winner of ar+d awards : Film Institute by Boonserm Premthada, Thailand Subscription Required

23 November 2011 | By Pirak Anurakyawachon

A worthy joint winner, Premthada’s Film Institute broadcasts itself in rural Thailand. With an air of Eladio Dieste, adept brickwork directs the design and prompts an inventive way of looking at interactive space

Joint Winner: Harbour Redevelopment, Malpica, Spain

Joint Winner of ar+d awards : Harbour remodelling by Creus e Carrasco, Malpica, Spain Subscription Required

23 November 2011 | By Catherine Slessor

A worthy joint winner, Carrasco solicitously approaches this transformation with creative panache turning an inert harbour into an engaging haven

Runners Up:  Biodiversity Centre by Thomas Garcia Piriz

Biodiversity Centre by Thomas Garcia Piriz, Loja, Southern Spain Subscription Required

23 November 2011

Piriz commands Spanish soils with an irregular, dramatic insertion-seaming the landscape via an intrepid geometry