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Eduardo Souto de Moura
21 November, 2011A Tale of Two Chimneys and Other Stories
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The Danger that Lurks on this Side of the Gates
10 September, 2011In Yorgos Lanthimos's 2009 film Dogtooth (Κυνόδοντας, winner of the 2009 Cannes Festival Un Certain Regard award, and 2010 nominee for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award), the authoritarian patriarch rules his family by sustaining a prospect of terror.
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Roberto Burle Marx: The Marvellous Art of Landscape Design
27 May, 2011Αn exhibition currently on show at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, in Paris.
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From Juan O’Gorman for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
28 February, 2011The Mexican Revolution (1910-20) was followed by two decades of intense experimentation in the political, social and cultural spheres. Juan O'Gorman's radical functionalism was conceived as an agent of social and political reform.
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Another Athens Is Possible
02 December, 2010Adopting the right to the city as a political ideal, a claim and a demand, the mayor-elect of Athens, Giorgos Kaminis, and his collaborators called for the participation of all inhabitants to the open project to make a city ‘after [their] heart's desire'.
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Transformed by Couture
29 October, 2010Through an initiative of Elle magazine, fashion designers have now found a new way to market their lifestyle brands and promote themselves as creators of luxury products as well as inspired artworks that cannot be imitated.
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The Lizards of Djenné
26 September, 2010The Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud-brick building in the world and a prime example of the so-called style-Soudanais architecture.
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The Greatest Show on the Beach
08 August, 2010Morris Lapidus's Technicolor Fantasyland for Mr and Mrs America
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Learning from Miami
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Oscar Niemeyer’s Permanent International Fair in Tripoli
29 May, 2010Lebanon's Unfettered Market-Driven Development Poses a Threat to the Country's Architectural Heritage and Urban Public Space.
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Brasília, ‘capital of the highways and skyways’
30 April, 2010Few days ago, on 21 April, Brasília celebrated its 50th anniversary.
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Bokja: ‘A Woman’s Affair’
28 March, 2010Bokja, the duo of Lebanese designers Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibri, are using ancient textiles from the Levant and from countries along the Silk Road to reupholster mass-produced furniture, and transform them into unique works of art.
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Made of Stone and Water, for the Human Body
28 February, 2010Peter Zumthor’s Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland (1990–96)
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Europe’s Civilization under Threat
28 January, 2010The current global economic crisis is used across Western Europe to feed a growing intolerance towards immigrants, in general, and a hysterical Muslim Scare, in particular.
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Love Thy Planet
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Anish Kapoor: Non-objective Objects
26 November, 2009At the Royal Academy of Arts, in London, Anish Kapoor is currently exhibiting a number of works in which, at different times in his career, he searched for ways to think about what he calls ‘the non-objective object,’ or ‘how an object can be and not be’.
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