Skill
Day care center in Chimundo, Mosambique
Nineteen students, five weeks in Mozambique, one school - built in twelve days
CANE AND ABLE – THE EXPRESSIVE SKILL OF BUILDING WITH BAMBOO
An increasingly used renewable local resource, Bamboo, is being innovatively used to build a primary school in Thailand
House? Boat? Iceberg?
Paul Smith’s latest flagship store by Kim Chan-Joong/System Lab, Seoul, South Korea
AIA Pavilion 2011 by Gernot Riether, New Orleans, USA
A hydroponic pavilion for the 2011 AIA convention in New Orleans cleverly exploits sugar cane plastic
Athletes Village Block N15 by Niall Mclaughlin Architects, Stratford, London
Niall McLaughlin replicates the Elgin Marbles as a facade for London’s Olympic Village housing
Marble Mural by Point Supreme, Interior Design Show 2010, Athens, Greece
How the art and craft of marble carving, cutting and printing comes together in a spectacular mural. Photography by Giannis Drakoulidis
O Outro, O Mesmo, São Paulo, Brazil and Shanghai, China
Cardboard shakes off its functional connotations to form an unlikely material for two art installations
Earth Pavilion by Peter Rich Architects and Michael Ramage, London, UK
Peter Rich investigates masonry vault structures for the Prince of Wales’ sustainability garden party. Photography by Michael Ramage
Workshop by Studio Mumbai, Alibaug, India
Based in a plantation in Alibaug, the Studio Mumbai workshop demonstrates a return to craft
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Swiss School in Grono by Raphael Zuber
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Delhi Defence Colony House by Vir Mueller Architects
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Rafael Moneo's Iesu Church in San Sebastian, Spain
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Perkins+Will's University Campus in Luanda, Angola
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Belfast's Metropolitan Arts Centre by Hackett Hall McKnight
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Texel Maritime Museum by Mecanoo, Netherlands
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Tetrarc's collective housing scheme in Nantes, France
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El Batel Auditorium in Cartagena Harbour by Selgas Cano
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TAO's Museum of Handcraft Paper, Xinzhuang, China
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Raised House in Hiroshima by Kimihiko Okada
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A light touch: Bing Thom's Library in Canada
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Stuttgart City Library by Yi Architects
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Urban spaces by GUN Arquitectos and Eduardo Castillo
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Veil and grid: Library by Li Xiaodong, China
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Film Theatre in Catalonia by Mateo Architects
Folio
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow, Russia
Pushing at the boundaries of the conventional academy, this architecture school is where technology meets internationalism
Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination
The Royal Academy reflects on the 350th anniversary of the architect’s birth
MONDRIAN AND NICHOLSON IN PARALLEL
This exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery explores the relationship between Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream at MoMA
New York’s Museum of Modern Art joins the conversation about the national financial/housing debacle
John Pawson's Visual Inventory
The architect’s ‘obsessive’ passion for the photography collected in his new book
British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age
The Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection of the best of British design
Houses without windows
Jeroen Hofman photographic book of the architectural props used to train the western military paint a gloomy picture of archetypal european community
Guerrilla gardening in the city
Revolutionary purposes of nature are not forgotten at The Garden Museum’s green fingured exhibition
An evening with the Mayne Man
Thom Mayne disposes of the myth of the Great Architectural Creators in his SCI-Arc lecture In Los Angeles
Scenes, Actors and Spectacles
Starchitectural Review: Exploring the process of procurement within today’s pluralism
