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ZUS: ‘the end is not the end’Subscription
ZUS remain resilient and resistant under the threat of reflex demolition, marking out their own spaces for the city in unsolicited projects that bring life to areas made static by the city’s speculative value
Changing places: reuse of obsolescent buildings in south LondonSubscription
Driven by culture, commerce, convenience and the vogue for adaptive reuse, south London’s current wave of gentrification is still problematic
Waste not: Rotor and the practice of deconstructionSubscription
Building on an ancient culture of reusing and recycling building components, Rotor argues that there is an urgent need to rediscover the art of destruction
Impractical genius: Jørn Utzon's Sydney Opera House and Can Lis, MallorcaSubscription
The Sydney Opera House and Can Lis, both completed in 1973, are two of Jørn Utzon’s masterworks yet the products of a catalogue of errors
Light and enlightenment: libraries in Finnish cultural identitySubscription
The openness conveyed by the light, form and texture of Finland’s libraries is pivotal to the country’s identity and social consolidation
Urban grain: NRW Landesarchiv in Duisburg, Germany, by O&O BaukunstSubscription
AR Library Commended: rising from the carapace of an old granary, NRW Landesarchiv is both a tombstone for the Ruhr’s industrial age and a monument to our need to remember
Zero tolerance: Amsterdam, the cradle of capitalismSubscription
Despite a historical culture of tolerance, the Netherlands is also guilty of oppression. With the global rise of the far right, perhaps it is time for Amsterdam to reassert its liberal values
Retirement plan: Titan, FranceSubscription
Titan’s visitor centre in the Vendée heightens the sense of anticipation when entering the intimate world of a former French prime minister
Hides of industry: Johansen Skovsted, DenmarkSubscription
Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter are increasingly drawn to post-industrial rural sites where they can deploy wider regeneration initiatives
Rem Koolhaas (1944–)Subscription
Koolhaas’s heroic trajectory provides an impossible formula for success, combining unquestioned genius with a waning culture of willigness to embrace the figure of the starchitect
