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The
business of design - Shama’s CEO Elaine
Young tells hinge why she values it
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*Hamasei’s
mod makeover
*A
family-style tavern in Toronto
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book
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Freestanding
Houses
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In the pipeline
from around the world
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*Red
Bud Trail House, Texas
*Galileo Apartments in Mexico City
*The
new Chefs’ House Restaurant at George Brown
College
*The Level Green exhibition for Volkswagen’s
Autostadt in Germany
*London’s
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
*Partying
it up at the Dusk nightclub in Atlantic City
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New cultural institutions we admire
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*GRAFT turns a fearful trip to the dentist into
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*A green home in Florida
*A
cherry-picked retired life
*An
artist’s escape in Mexico City
*A
library in Italy turns into a spiritual retreat
*Paul
Raff’s Cascade House, Toronto
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An unusual
complex by architect Steven Holl
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perspective
Brazil’s
MK27 comes under the spotlight
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The
whereabouts of the industry’s social butterflies
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SIX NEW MUSEUMS
The
seemingly instinctive impulse among humans to
archive their own history, and that of their natural
habitat, has driven the architectural category
of ‘museum’ for centuries now, and
appears in no manner diminished by rumours of
our collective demise (say, by our destruction
of that habitat). Indeed, the spreading awareness
of the precarious state of our planet seems, if
anything, to be subconsciously spurring a sense
of urgency in the recording of the various histories
we have made… As if we can deposit into
our cultural institutions not only evidence of
our presence but also of our worth, as authenticated
by our artworks, our science works, our very industriousness
itself. This urge to record may be a monumental
exercise in irrelevance, or paramount to the advancement
of knowledge. Either way, it makes for some lucky
architects...
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