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Two London Schools: Cottrell and Vermeulen, Agents of Change and revitalising beautiful brickwork Subscription Required

31 January 2012 | By Cany Ash , Robert Sakula

In stitching together disparate school campuses, these two additions reinterpret a London idiom to reaffirm the facade’s urban significance and the lost art of ornament

Fluidly planned, humanely scaled and inviting, Sandal Magna aims to dispel notions of educational authoritarianism

Wiggleworth's Wakefield School design Subscription Required

30 January 2012 | By Gillian Horn

Reworking local urban and industrial morphologies for a human scale and young imaginations, this primary school in Wakefield transforms anomie into engagement

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AAVP Architecture's Casares-Doisneau School decorates French soil Subscription Required

30 January 2012 | By Andrew Ayers

Emblematic of wider transformation in the grim flatlands north of Paris, a new school rises from the ashes of a former industrial site in Saint-Denis

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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

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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

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Emerging Architecture Spring Lecture Series Subscription Required

24 January 2012

A series of three seminars and presentations by young architects from the 2011 ar+d Awards for Emerging Architecture. Participants will discuss their work in general as well as describing their winning projects

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

Saturated Space Launch Subscription Required

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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Internships at The Architectural Review

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

Renzo Piano talks about The Shard

The Architectural Review: February 2012

Le Corbusier designed the Villa Savoye between 1929 and 1931. ca. 2002 Poissy, France

THE BIG RETHINK: Farewell to modernism's inherent lack of sustainability

30 January 2012 | By Peter Buchanan

The second essay in the new Campagin decries Modernism for its betrayal of our essential humanity, and puts the case for why this must be regained to achieve true sustainability. In an emerging epoch based on a vision of a ‘living, organic universe’, architecture must start again to mediate our relations between nature, place and community.

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Typology Quarterly: Schools Subscription Required

1 February 2012 | By Christian Kuhn

In the industrial era, schools developed as highly controlled environments to instil the discipline to thrive in a machine age. Now, to prepare pupils for success in a knowledge economy, the evolving typology is more fluidly conceived to provide flexibility, connectivity, and spaces for social and educational encounters

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10 Years On: Evaluating kroll’s eco school Subscription Required

1 February 2012 | By Peter Blundell Jones

Ten years ago, the AR published a new secondary school at Caudry in northern France by Lucien Kroll, which marked an important advance in green building. The result of an architect/contractor competition, the school had to meet a demanding list of ecological criteria. As reported in January 2002 these were met and the school got off to a good start. But how has its life developed?

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TQ Schools: Rinsgtabekk School by DIV.A Subscription Required

1 February 2012 | By Christian Kuhn

This school in Norway was designed to be flexible and workshop-like in its nature, as well as energy efficient and sustainable

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Innovators interview: Renzo Piano

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

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

This poster was used to illustrate part of Green Party MP Caroline Lucas' ‘Home front’ initiative. The campaign sought to connect images of Britain's war-time past with today's age of dangerous climate change and energy insecurity.

The Greens under Scrutiny Subscription Required

2 February 2012 | By Austin Williams

Roger Scruton pushes for community responsibility to save the local environment before approaching the depths of global change

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MAXXI exhibition: tribute to the act of recycling Subscription Required

31 January 2012 | By Luigi Puglisi

Luigi Puglisi reviews the new exhibition at Zaha’s MAXXI, which offers a large collection of drawings, buildings and projects, united by the theme of recycling

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci

The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Drawing Subscription Required

31 January 2012 | By Joseph Rykwert

Toby Lester observes the legacy of Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Vitruvian Man