Architecture news

• July design news: meet the Evocado and discover the Design Library

  26-07-2022 10:16
  
  A new book on old fabrics, a commemorative scriptorium and a sneaker exhibition celebrating vintage shoesHistory is changing. More and more stories are being retold from different perspectives and with new analysis. Once you realise that the past is not a foreign country, but something that can be renovated, upgraded or restored, your worldview changes. Don’t like the environmental impact of avocado farming but love the taste? Make a new, locally produced fruit. Want to honour Scottish his
  
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• ‘The council tenants weren’t going to be allowed back’: how Britain’s ‘ugliest building’ was gentrified

  26-07-2022 07:00
  
  The east London brutalist landmark Balfron Tower was conceived as the perfect neighbourhood in the sky by its Marxist architect. Now its flats are being sold as ‘trophy properties’A dizzying dining deck crowns the summit of the newly renovated Balfron Tower in Poplar, east London, perched like a crow’s nest on top of the brutalist concrete lift shaft. Floating almost 30 storeys up in the air, with spectacular views across the city, it marks the apex of a new dedicated tower of
  
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