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• ‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’: how RIBA is decolonising its HQ

  29-04-2024 14:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The Royal Institute of British Architects has been taking stock of the disturbingly imperial decoration of its palatial home – with a new show telling a larger, more unsettling storyPart Egyptian tomb, part masonic temple, the 1930s headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects has always exuded a cultish air. Sited on London’s illustrious Portland Place, among embassies, consulates and oligarchs’ pieds-à-terre, it is a fittingly regal headquarters for a char
  
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• Letters: John Miller obituary

  29-04-2024 13:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Having not built a theatre, John Miller missed the competition shortlist in 1997 for one in Runcorn. But the night before the interviews a practice dropped out, so he and Su Rogers came, without the rehearsed presentation of their competitors.Photographs of previous work – close-ups of a beautifully formed banister, or a brickwork detail – swiftly made John the unanimous and excited choice of the panel. The resulting Brindley theatre is a masterpiece of quiet authority, beauty and we
  
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• Cats, cuddly toys and a portrait of Stalin: the last lift lady guarding Tbilisi’s brutalist skybridge

  29-04-2024 13:23 via theguardian.com
  
  In the Georgian capital, 70-year-old Mzia Sabanadze manually operates the pay-as-you go elevator to the bridge connecting the once-futuristic Nutsubidze apartment blocksThe three blocks of flats which step up a Tbilisi hill, linked by a metal bridge, are a concrete reminder of Georgia’s Soviet past.The state-owned Nutsubidze apartments and their skybridge opened in 1978, the 140 flats distributed to blue- and white-collar workers as part of a USSR effort to expand urban housing in its terr
  
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• Infinity According to Florian review - mission to save Ukraine’s extraordinary modernist masterpiece

  29-04-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Oleksiy Radynski chronicles the visionary architect Florian Yuriev’s drive to rescue Kyiv’s Institute of Information from destruction after he was given weeks to live The extraordinary mind of Florian Yuriev, a visionary Ukrainian architect and artist, visualises an astonishingly holistic view of the world. His abstract paintings brim with geometric colourful shapes and patterns that also carry a sonic component, as each shade has their own tonality. On his piano, whose keys are mark
  
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