Architecture news

• Architecton review – poetic study of humankind’s bricks-and-mortar impact on the Earth

  12-01-2025 13:00
  Victor Kossakovsky’s follow-up to Gunda is a gorgeously shot reverie about our use of materials such as stone and concreteThe granite face of a quarry shatters into boulders, cascading in mesmerising slow motion; a man with a wheelbarrow potters around the Roman ruins at Baalbek in Lebanon; bulldozers and diggers pick over the shattered fragments of a bombed-out Ukrainian housing complex; an Italian architect commissions a stone circle for his garden, hovering fretfully as the landscapers
  
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• Sadler’s Wells East review – all the right moves

  12-01-2025 12:00
  
  East Bank, Stratford, London
  Built in Italian red brick by acclaimed Irish practice O’Donnell + Tuomey, Sadler’s Wells’s vibrant new sister theatre provides six dance studios, elegant auditorium – and a big welcome to allThere’s an idea among some architects that a building should somehow resemble the purposes it serves: that an airport should evoke flight; a democratic building should be transparent; an art museum should look like a piece of sculpture. It doesn&rsq
  
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