• John Miller obituary

    John Miller obituary
    Architect who modified Tate Britain and other institutions sympathetically and designed discreet new structuresWhen the Tate Gallery split in half at the turn of the millennium, John Miller was the architect who turned its original Millbank home into Tate Britain. The new development, Tate Modern, carved out of the brick cliff of the former Bankside power station by Herzog & de Meuron, attracted larger crowds. But in architectural terms the remodelling of the somewhat underpowered classicism
  • A tropical storm, an ancient sisterhood and Toni Morrison sculptures – the week in art

    A tropical storm, an ancient sisterhood and Toni Morrison sculptures – the week in art
    Postcolonial architecture in Ghana, fresh responses to an all-female medieval community and sculptures inspired by radical writing – all in your weekly dispatchTropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence
    An atmospheric look at how high modernist architecture was reinvented as the style of postcolonial Ghana and India in the 1950s and 60s.
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