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"Great Lives" is a biography series exploring the greatest people who ever lived, at BBC. Matthew Parris interviews an eminent guest and an expert to reveal the truth behind their history heroes. The last episode on December 31th finished the year…
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Le Corbusier and Salvador Dali at BBC
Civil engineering company Anta and Agence TER Landscape Architects designed this footbridge in San Sebastian, Spain. Located over the River Urumea, Riberas de Loyola Footbridge means a new connection between the city on one side of the river and the…
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Riberas de Loyola Footbridge. Anta IC and Agence Ter. Photography © Mario Michel. Courtesy of Anta IC
SOM, an International architecture practice, is looking for architects to join its offices in Shanghai and Shenzhen, China. , full_html
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The buildings of 26 prolific architects are transformed into letters of the alphabet in this series of detailed illustrations by graphic designer Federico Babina. , full_html
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The latest project by Wiel Arets Architects is a house in Marbella, Spain. Malaga city has, like business card, always "too much" but it is unusual that good architects have the opportunity to design projects in this world of glamor, money and hype…
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Access to car park. Jellyfish House by Wiel Arets Architects. Photography © Jan Bitter
The Museum of Modern Art yesterday approved initial details of a major building project that will expand the Museum’s public spaces and galleries to provide greater public accessibility and allow the Museum to reconceive the presentation of its…
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Rendering from garden entrance. Extension and connection MoMA project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Image courtesy of MoMA
Snøhetta has concluded the first phase of the reconstruction of Times Square (Seventh Avenue and Broadway), continuing the initiative started in 2009 to pedestrianise large sections of the popular tourist destination, including the construction of…
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Times Square Reconstruction by Snohetta. Rendering by Snohetta and MIR
It is difficult to gain more than a glimpse of the dwelling through the surrounding vegetation. Where the house is visible, it blends within the landscape, the black timber cladding and dark reflective glass selected to help dematerialise the…
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Ridge Road Residence by StudioFour. Photography © Shannon McGrath
One door, one window, one rooflight, one bed, one shelf, one table - everything you need. Under this slogan we introduce you this prefab studio box, that with its only 9,8 m², is capable to house the basic necessities for both sleeping and working.…
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Outside vision. Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Photograph © Torben Eskerod
Until next 23 January, the registration period for entries is open to all kind of interventions creating, recovering or improving the democratic quality of the urban spaces we share and carried out in European cities between 2012 and 2014., full_html
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2014 European Prize for Urban Public Space