Architecture news

• Sydney entry beaten by ‘spectacular’ Beijing building in library of the year award

  08-10-2024 16:00
  Liverpool mayor Ned Mannoun just shrugs and smiles after his council’s ‘magnificent’ Yellamundie is outshone by $300m Beijing LibraryFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt was always going to be competition of David and Goliath proportions.Liverpool’s new public library Yellamundie, in Sydney’s south-west, made international news last month when it became one of four finalists in the annual
  
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• ‘I make architects’ dreams come true’: Hanif Kara, the magician who makes impossible buildings stay up

  08-10-2024 01:01
  
  He has had a hand in some of the 21st-century’s most daring structures – including Zaha Hadid’s Phaeno science centre. We meet the Uganda-born engineer, who has just won architecture’s prestigious Soane medalFrom the wayward columns of Will Alsop, to the gravity-defying curves of Zaha Hadid, there has always been someone in the background making architects’ improbable visions stand up. More often than not, in the case of the 21st-century’s most unlikely struct
  
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