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• Beautiful, eco-friendly and fire resistant: why architects are choosing walls made of hemp

  09-11-2024 20:00
  
  Sumptuously textured, carbon negative and just a bit more expensive, hempcrete is being increasingly used in eco-friendly buildingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMichael Leung first came across hempcrete after a family tragedy.When his father-in-law died from asbestos-related mesothelioma, Leung, an architect, swore off using toxic materials in building. Continue reading...
  
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• Homes alone: abandoned buildings of the Italian Apennines – in pictures

  09-11-2024 18:00
  
  Landscape and architecture photographer Vincenzo Pagliuca was always fascinated by the empty, isolated houses scattered around the Campania region of southern Italy where he grew up. Since 2016 he has travelled along the Apennine mountain range that runs almost the length of the country, photographing uninhabited rural houses and abandoned holiday homes linked to ski tourism – now unused due to lack of snow. These images, collected in the book Mónos, were shot during the winter mont
  
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• Hidden in plain sight: a converted stable in Italy

  09-11-2024 17:00
  A 250-year-old animal stable nestled in an Italian mountain village is now a family home – with a see-if-you-can-spot-it mirrored looSheer Alpine mountains and forested valleys are both neighbour and inspiration for Italian designer and architect Riccardo Monte. His home, a 250-year-old former animal shed, is tucked into a tiny Italian village in the Ossola valley, not far from the Swiss border and Lake Maggiore.Riccardo lives with his English partner, photographer and filmmaker Katie May,
  
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• Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo: who is the greatest of the Renaissance masters?

  09-11-2024 12:55
  
  Ahead of a new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, writers make a case for each of Renaissance art’s big three, from the secretive genius of Leonardo and Raphael’s beguiling brilliance, to the space-filling majesty of MichelangeloBy Charles Nicholl, biographer of Leonardo da Vinci Continue reading...
  
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• ‘They look like homes for rich people’: why Britain should look to Europe for its council housing revolution

  09-11-2024 11:00
  On the continent, stylish, sustainable, community-minded social housing is a given, and nowhere more so than in Spain – from an elegant Barcelona women’s refuge to cool, solid stone houses in MallorcaIn Britain, as our government has promised, we’re going to have a “council housing revolution”, the building of as yet unknown numbers of homes at genuinely affordable rents, a return to policies of 50 and more years ago in order to address the well-known housing crisis
  
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• ‘The best cinema that was ever built’: the Capitol, Melbourne’s hidden architectural treasure, turns 100

  09-11-2024 00:00
  These days it sits awkwardly above a Subway on a busy Melbourne street, but head inside and find a truly spectacular space that has survived a centuryIt sits in the centre of Melbourne, arguably on its most prominent street, and yet the Capitol theatre feels like the most overlooked building in the state. The beloved but strangely occluded Chicago-Gothic cinema, designed by married American architects Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin, turns 100 years old this week. It seems the perfect ti
  
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