Architecture news

• ‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’: radical study centre is named best building in Europe

  25-04-2024 20:30
  
  A ‘non-hierarchical’ university space that can be continually altered or even moved has won the EU’s biennial prize for contemporary architecture A lightweight university study centre designed to be easily disassembled has won the prize for the best building in Europe. Longevity, permanence and a sense of immutability might be the ambition of most architects, but Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke would be delighted to see their building adapted and reconfigured, or ultimately di
  
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• Lost New York: remembering the city’s forgotten landmarks

  25-04-2024 16:30
  
  A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society looks back on years of radical change in the city for better and worseIn recent decades New York City has changed dramatically, transforming from the lows of the crime and drug epidemics that ravaged the city in the 1970s and 80s to the resurgence and optimism that typified the 90s and the surge in gentrification that has been a source of debate more recently. Amid all of this transformation, one might make the assumption that these are new for
  
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