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• New York, new architecture: how is the city changing with the times?

  24-02-2023 16:49
  
  A new Moma exhibition takes a look at projects for so-called public-facing spaces in the city and what young designers are doing for New YorkersNew York no longer makes sense. And like everything in New York, it all comes back to real estate and the politics of space.It doesn’t make sense to live here (rent is too high), or work here (most can work anywhere), or, really, to play here (no regular bars left in Manhattan.) New York is absurd in every way these days. There are millions of squa
  
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• ‘A lovely building’: charity launches plan to save Bristol’s Rupert Street car park

  24-02-2023 16:00
  
  Concrete multistorey threatened with demolition but C20 launches campaign to keep ‘innovative’ buildingThe NCP Rupert Street car park in Bristol has a one-star rating on Parkopedia, its stairwells stink of urine and a four-hour stay costs £15.80.But C20 (Twentieth Century Society), a charity that campaigns to protect “outstanding” buildings, has submitted an application to list the city centre car park and save it from threatened demolition. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Delicate as the seashore’: rare Frank Lloyd Wright home sells for $22m

  24-02-2023 07:00
  
  Architect designed his only oceanfront house in California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea for a lumber executive’s widow The only oceanfront home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright has sold for $22m in California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea, the dreamy coastal enclave where Clint Eastwood once served as mayor.Known as the Mrs Clinton Walker house and the Cabin on the Rocks, the residence was built for the artist Della Walker in 1952, according to the Wall Street Journal, and had remained in
  
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