• Architects look to Warsaw for lessons on rebuilding Ukraine from rubble

    Architects look to Warsaw for lessons on rebuilding Ukraine from rubble
    An exhibition highlights the Polish city’s innovative reconstruction effort after the second world war The idea of Warsaw as a phoenix city, reconstructed from ruins after the second world war, is a key part of the Polish capital’s identity. Now, an exhibition has shed fresh light on the innovative way the rebuilding effort used ruins and rubble to create a new city.The exhibition, which has run over recent weeks at the Museum of Warsaw, argues that rubble is to Warsaw what Carrara m
  • It’s back to the Futuro in Australia, where seven of the ‘UFO houses’ have landed

    It’s back to the Futuro in Australia, where seven of the ‘UFO houses’ have landed
    Mona’s David Walsh has restored one of the cult prefabs and says one day he’ll make it available to the public ‘at an exorbitant fee of course’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailFuturo “UFO houses” are scattered around the world – disintegrating in forests, gleaming on hilltops and peeking out of back yards.They look like retro cartoon spaceships brought to life and imbued with Nordic cool. Continue reading...

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