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• Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World review – Thomas Heatherwick’s simplistic critique of modern architecture

  22-10-2023 14:00
  
  The designer is right to criticise boring buildings, but picks his targets poorly and shows no inclination to confront the forces that create such structuresThere are, says Thomas Heatherwick, too many boring buildings in the world. There has been “a century-long global catastrophe” caused by “bland, vague and forgettable” architecture, a “global epidemic of inhuman buildings”, a style of flat glass grids which, whether in Bengaluru, Dallas, Buenos Aires, Canb
  
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• Andrea Branzi obituary

  22-10-2023 12:38
  
  Architect and designer who was part of a radical Italian movement in the 1960s and 70s that rejected mass productionAndrea Branzi, who has died aged 84, was the last of a generation of Italian architects and designers that made their country the world’s leading centre for design. The art curator Germano Celant coined the term “radical design” to describe the work of Branzi and his friends Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini, even before he had identified the arte povera move
  
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• Sunspot, Jaywick Sands review – a ray of hope for the beleaguered Essex resort

  22-10-2023 12:00
  
  A bright, no-frills business development of office space, workshops and market hall is bringing amenities and employment to one of the country’s most beleaguered communitiesJaywick Sands in Essex, population 4,800, is a survivor of a largely lost world, the interwar phenomenon called “plotlands” that enabled the working-class dwellers of big cities to own, and often build, their own home in the countryside and by the sea. It manifests a dream of freedom and self-reliance, with
  
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