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Folly or art? Catalonian town to buy labyrinthine Espai Corberó for €3m

18-07-2022 19:55

In need of repair, futuristic yet surreal complex built by artist Xavier Corberó is to become public spaceLike a three-dimensional De Chirico painting or an Escher staircase to nowhere, the labyrinthine Espai Corberó near Barcelona defies architectural logic, being designed “without plans, obeying only space and poetry”.“It’s not my home, it’s a place I made with the help of patrons and buyers as a home for my sculptures,” the artist Xavier Corbe

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Folly or art? Catalonian town buys labyrinthine Espai Corberó for €3m

18-07-2022 19:55

In need of repair, futuristic yet surreal complex built by artist Xavier Corberó is to become public spaceLike a three-dimensional De Chirico painting or an Escher staircase to nowhere, the labyrinthine Espai Corberó near Barcelona defies architectural logic, being designed “without plans, obeying only space and poetry”.“It’s not my home, it’s a place I made with the help of patrons and buyers as a home for my sculptures,” the artist Xavier Corbe

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‘Stripped back’: how a cattle farm became a sustainable coastal community

18-07-2022 19:30

Innovative builders and architects are leading a revolution in socially and environmentally aware housing across regional AustraliaDeveloper Brendan Condon was visiting relatives in the small seaside village of Cape Paterson in south Gippsland, Victoria, when an exercise session led to a vision for a regional housing project with a difference.“I found the site because it’s my family beach,” says Condon, originally from nearby Warragul in the Latrobe Valley. Continue reading...

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The climate crisis is coming home in our sweltering cities | Letters

18-07-2022 19:20

Innovative ways are being found to cool cities, and justice demands that rich countries help those in the global south, say Dr David Dodman and Dr Aditya V Bahadur. Plus letters from Ann and Neil Holmes and Sarah WinneWe were glad to see Oliver Wainwright draw attention to soaring heat in cities – a critical aspect of climate change (Metropolis meltdown: the urgent steps we need to take to cool our sweltering cities, 14 July). Indeed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to whose

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Melbourne’s Federation Square doesn’t need to change – we do

18-07-2022 08:31

The proposal to divide Fed Square into colour-coded zones with ‘totems’ to help visitors find their way ignores the beauty of chaosGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastMelbourne loves an installation. We’ve got the soaring Arts Centre spire, laneways filled with street art, and that hotel on Eastlink that’s just big enough to make you do a double-take. Fitzroy had a skull-faced banana, and Beach Road cyclists are watched over by a lifesize h

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