Made in China: the rise of domestic architecture practices
By 2019 developers want to clone Manhattan in the Yujiapu district of Tianjin, China - but it may never happen.…
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Adam Williams
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Shine a light: the advent of OLEDs
It's always the way with technology: you're only just starting to get your head around the newest piece of kit…
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The regeneration games: Olympic legacy architecture
The 2012 Olympic Games may be over, but a new-found sense of pride and goodwill lingers within London. Stratford, the…
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They live: synthetic biology in architecture
Listen to Rachel Armstrong for a while, and there's a chance your world view will change. A co-director of AVATAR…
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Architecture of necessity
In 2008, a small group of architecture students travelled from their home in Norway to a village on the Thai-Burmese…
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Sun worshippers: the new solar shading
Sun-shading, solar gain reduction and the harnessing of natural light have been fundamental principles of intelligent design ever since man…
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Instant infrastructure: development in Georgia
With the Caucasus Mountains standing serenely in the distance, the SOCAR Petroleum station on the outskirts of Gori, eastern Georgia,…
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Matteo Thun on the beauty of ecology and economy
In 1952, the Milanese architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers uttered the famous phrase dal cucchiaio alla città, which means "from the…
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A sense of belonging: the role of green space
The North Sea oil boom of the 1970s saw the energy sector overshadow many of the traditional businesses of industrial…