Architecture news

• New eco-hotel at Everglades national park built for age of super hurricanes

  28-05-2025 12:00
  Flamingo Lodge – constructed from repurposed shipping containers on stilts – replaces Florida facility battered by hurricanes Katrina and WilmaA collection of repurposed shipping containers, welded together and fitted out to create an innovative new eco-hotel inside one of the country’s most popular national parks, offers a vision of revival and resilience at the beginning of another potentially active Atlantic hurricane season.The containers exist as the elevated 24-room Flami
  
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• ‘The national museum of absolutely everything’: new V&A outpost is an architectural delight

  28-05-2025 01:01
  Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture … our architecture critic is wowed by how the V&A East Storehouse lets visitors ‘breathe the same air’ as its 250,000 artefacts• ‘Pop a masterpiece in your basket’: our art critic reviews the Storehouse‘We used to have something called social housing,” you will be able to tell your grandchildren, should you ever take them to V&A East Storehouse, the Victoria
  
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• Fancy a masterpiece? Just pop one in your basket! V&A’s new open-access outpost will thrill art-lovers

  28-05-2025 01:01
  V&A East Storehouse, London
  The Victoria & Albert’s new warehouse boasts a mind-boggling 250,000 artefacts. Our art critic tries its ‘order an object’ service and gets intimate with some national treasures – including ‘the biggest Picasso in the world’• ‘The national museum of absolutely everything’: our architecture critic visits the StorehouseOn a table in a study room at the new V&A East Storehouse, a silk-embroidered Alexander
  
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