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• ‘I’m overwhelmed’ – Balkrishna Doshi, India’s most celebrated living architect, wins top UK honour

  09-12-2021 17:28
  
  The defining architect of post-independence India, who worked with the likes of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, has been awarded RIBA’s royal gold medal for his ‘delightfully purposeful’ buildingsThe 2022 RIBA royal gold medal, the UK’s highest honour for architecture, has been won by Balkrishna Doshi, India’s most celebrated living architect. The 94-year-old, who worked with Le Corbusier on his designs for the city of Chandigarh, was instrumental in defining the archi
  
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• Made in Dagenham: the artist homes designed to slow gentrification

  09-12-2021 11:00
  
  Filled with light and designed around community living, A House for Artists in Barking is a radical model for affordable housing in the UK There is something about the very English muddle of regulations, codes and standards that has set the quality of housing in this country on a race to the bottom. There are rules to ensure that a bare minimum of space, light and ventilation is provided, but, such are the commercial forces driving the industry, these minimum levels also serve as the maximum. Me
  
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• ‘A wake up call to the industry’: the artist homes blazing a trail for affordable UK housing

  09-12-2021 11:00
  
  Filled with light and designed around community living, A House for Artists in east London is designed to soften the impact of gentrificationThere is something about the very English muddle of regulations, codes and standards that has set the quality of housing in this country on a race to the bottom. There are rules to ensure that a bare minimum of space, light and ventilation is provided, but, such are the commercial forces driving the industry, these minimum levels also serve as the maximum.
  
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