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1961 May: Psychiatric Institute Milan by Vittorio Vigano Subscription Required

9 May 2012

A functionalist approach to a challenging brief is resolved in this unintentionally Brutalist hospital

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2002 January: Library And Archive, London by Wright & Wright Architects

9 May 2012 | By Catherine Slessor

On the site of a Victorian public baths, a new library and archive illuminates women’s lives and is a model of good practice in en,ironmental regulation

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1990 April: Platform Houses in Katsuura, Japan by Kazuyo Sejima Subscription Required

27 April 2012

Houses as neutral enclosures for transitory human activities, this is what Kazuyo Sejima wanted to create in her platform houses: but their reality is a great deal more imbued with presence

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1994 February: Henri Ciriani's Antiquities Musem, Arles, France

24 April 2012 | By Raymund Ryan

Henri Ciriani’s new antiquities museum at Arles in southern France boldly reinterprets and extends the spatial disciplines of the Corbusian Modernist inheritance in a sensually stunning interaction of light, form and colour

A retail unit is transformed into a rounded caravan swathed in Moroccan-Moorish colours

1989 January: Retreats of Fashion

3 April 2012 | By Adrian Dannatt

In the fickle world of fashion retailing, the interior is merely a marketing tool, however noble the aspirations of the designer. Seasonal changes have sparked a startling change of style in the Katharine Hamnett stores. Adrian Dannatt compares the contrasting architectural responses to new demands in three of her shops; one by Foster and two by Nigel Coates

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1961 APRIL: AMANCIO GUEDES "ARCHITECT OF LOURENÇO MARQUES" Subscription Required

21 March 2012 | By Julian Beinart

For the past ten years a Lisbon-born architect, Amancio d’Alpoim Guedes, has been practising in Lourenço Marques, the capital of Mozambique, producing work both original and idiosyncratic to which no attention has been given by the outside world.

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1977 May: The Pompidou Centre, The "Pompodolium" Subscription Required

2 March 2012 | By Reyner Banham , John Partridge

Reyner Banham discussed the roles of Megastructure, Archigram and modern technology in Pompidou’s design

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1972 December - Cars Cathedral

1 March 2012 | By Lance Wright

How not to do it? National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire by Leonard Manasseh and Partners

What is disarming about Prestwood is that none of the strictly self-imposed disciplines of its language are immediately obvious.

1971 August: House at Prestwood, Buckinghamshire

24 February 2012 | By John Partridge

House designed by Peter Aldington on a simple structural and spatial proposition

The entrance portico seen from within the rotunda. The restaurant lies below the entrance level. The nearest office tower, though not part of the Museum of London, rises above part of the museum site and was included in the architects' commission.

1977 July: The Museum of London by Powell and Moya

24 February 2012 | By Michael Brawne

All Glorious Within – Michael Brawne’s critism of Powell and Moya’s museum for London

Close up of the three-storey bridge connecting the two blocks

1961 April: Chamber of Commerce Building

24 February 2012

John H. Madin’s 12-storey tower is home to the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and offices

Night view of the office

1966 April: Gas Board HQ by Ryder and Yates

24 February 2012

Norgas House is an office building to accommodate all the central activities of the Northern Gas Board

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1971 August: House at Holland Park by Aldington and Craig

23 February 2012

A sensitive response in a London mews by Peter Aldington

Turkey's forgotten Georgian churches

1992 April: 'Turkey's Forgotten Georgian Churches' by Chris Hellier Subscription Required

13 February 2012 | By Chris Hellier

Georgian churches in the eastern provinces of Turkey, although particularly fine, are under threat from neglect and lack of understanding

Facade detail of the private housing block which, over time, will become animated by flourishing greenery

2010 October: Housing Development by Édouard François (Grenoble, France)

13 February 2012 | By Catherine Slessor

A soft building in France’s first ‘eco-quarter’

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2008 May: Resort Proposals by Édouard François (Aldiana, Senegal)

13 February 2012 | By Paul Finch

Gallic flair and light touch construction unite in this ethereal resort proposal

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2007 November: Hotel Fouquet by Édouard François (Paris,France)

13 February 2012 | By Catherine Slessor

An upmarket hotel is reborn as a historical replicant

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1993 February: Le Corbusier In the Sun Subscription Required

20 June 2011

[ARCHIVE] The Marseilles Unite and the monuments of Chandigarh have been held up as an example of Le Corbusier’s interest in passive energy control. Christopher Mackenzie questioned these assumptions on a visit to India

2003 March: Chandigarh, Once the Future City Subscription Required

16 June 2011

[Archive] After years of struggle in Rio, Algiers, Saint Die and Bogota, Le Corbusier, at the age of 62, had the rare opportunity to apply his theories to the design of a new city. Chandigarh was to be his most momentous assignment: the only urban plan of substance he implemented

1987 January: Chandigarh Subscription Required

12 June 2011

The Governor’s Garden which fuses architecture and landscape in a way unparalleled in Le Corbusier’s ouvre is analysed by Caroline Constant, and set in the context of his changing attitudes to landscape.

1964 June: Chandigarh, The Assembly Subscription Required

10 June 2011

The third of Le Corbusier’s major buildings on the capitol at Chandigarh - The Assembly - is discussed in this article by Charles Correa, the Indian architect who practiced in Bombay

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1989 February: Three Schemes By Steven Holl Architects Subscription Required

21 September 2011 | By Peter Buchanan , Gavin Hogben

[ARCHIVE] Three schemes that demonstrate Holl´s ability to draw inspiration from the world of phenomena

Model of the new chapel which continues Holl's current interest in warped geometries

1995 November: Chapel, Steven Holl Architects (Seattle, USA) Subscription Required

21 September 2011 | By Raymund Ryan

[ARCHIVE] Steven Holl’s Jesuit chapel fuses geometry, light and colour to create an articulate symbol of spiritual intent

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Viewpoints: Peter Cook

20 April 2012

The West rests on its laurels, as Oriental originality emerges

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Has the steady march of progress been detrimental to the art of drawing? Subscription Required

30 January 2012 | By Peter Cook

Former head of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, Peter Cook, ponders the death of drawing

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Innovators interview: Peter Cook

22 November 2011 | By Rob Gregory

Video: Peter Cook is the subject of this month’s Innovators interview, produced in partnership with Hunter Douglas

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1980 October: Folio: Cook’s Chefs-d’oeuvre

22 November 2011 | By Nigel Coates

Over the past 20 years Peter Cook’s output has been unique in terms of quantity, status, and sustained ability to inspire others. More than any other he has fathered just about every ounce of experimentalism in Britain.

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