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What is a good room? For this issue, The Architectural Review asked architects, curators and writers to describe a good domestic setting – real, remembered or imagined. For some, the room is one designed by Álvaro Siza or Jean-François Zevaco; for others, it is one depicted in an artwork, from a Berliner Zimmer in an 1845 painting by Adolph Menzel, to …
Steel magnet: De Krook Library, Ghent, Belgium, by RCR …
Mar 6, 2019 · The city library of Ghent has, since its opening in March 2017, been showered with praise and enthusiastic plaudits. Designed by the Catalan office RCR Arquitectes (Pritzker Prize winners in 2017), in cooperation with Belgian architects Coussée & Goris Architecten, it has been heralded as a ‘landmark’, ‘a real meeting place’, ‘a connection point’ and, according to …
Folio: Sarah Wigglesworth’s dining tables - The Architectural Review
Sep 26, 2018 · <p>These drawings of a dining table formed the basis for Sarah Wigglesworth’s design of the Straw Bale House (2001)</p>
Typology | Essays | The Architectural Review
In the AR’s Typology series, each building type is spliced open and its entrails closely examined. We collect the histories, evolutions and contemporary examples of each building type in one place: a complete short history of everything from housing estates to market halls, and prisons to public toilets, illustrated with case studies.
Eileen Gray: Pioneer of Design, December 1972
Eileen Gray was born in Ireland (Enniscorthy, Co Wexford) in 1879. She spent her childhood in London, and went as a student to the Slade in 1898 or thereabouts.
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Michael Graves' Portland Building - The Architectural Review
<p>Now facing the threat of demolition, the AR recalls a time when Graves’ project was set to become ‘Portland’s Eiffel Tower’ </p>
The nature of Andy Goldsworthy - The Architectural Review
Originally published in AR February 1988, this piece was published online in March 2018 in connection with the publication of AR April 2018 on Rethinking the Rural. Partly to recapture the wellsprings of art, the original awe at nature’s variety and sense of oneness with the universe found in primeval art, many sculptors, particularly in …
Catholic Taste: Building the Modern Church
Aug 29, 2014 · Proctor is less interested in architects’ biographical histories than in the impactful phenomenon of Modernism in British religious spaces, tapping into a wider potential to connect British architecture with a rich international network of religious and architectural phenomena.