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...That sounds, on a building costing a quarter of a billion quid, a little disingenuous. This is not a cheap pop-up but a massive investment in cultural infrastructure....
...“Enzo Mari”, at the Design Museum, London, March 29-September 8; designmuseum.org Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on X or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...Virtually a new city, it is as clean and competent as you might expect a gateway to Zurich to be, but it is also a bit corporate, perhaps a little dull and frankly intimidating in its scale....
...Others remain only as enigmatic ruins of a dream of a prosperous postcolonial future....
...Perhaps this was a mistake....
...The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald, Faber £18.99, 277 pages Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Join our online book group...
...AI should be a co-pilot and a friend, not a replacement for architects.” A simple sketch can be turned into a photorealistic image using generative AI....
...Cleaning by Kenya Hara (Lars Müller) A small, chunky book dealing with a big subject, this is a global photographic survey of humans cleaning up: sweeping streets and temples, polishing floors and collecting...
...In 1883, a young Barcelona architect accepted two commissions. One was to build a summer house for a stockbroker, just outside the city; the other was to take over the construction of a Gothic church....
...The department store was once a marker of civic prestige, an anchor of the main street, a place about potential. The joy of shopping was not so much in the destination but in the journey....
...Look at almost any modern condo building or residential tower from Seattle to Shenzhen and there will be a sense of sameness, a lack of depth, a glassy eyed banality....
...It has been a huge transfer of wealth from public to private — a levelling down....
...His work is spread sparsely here and presented as a series of art objects but it does possess a certain, undeniable presence. None of this airiness necessarily takes away from the show itself....
...The two met some years later by a strange coincidence in the hospital where Neutra was being treated for a heart attack and Schindler for prostate cancer....
...istanbulmodern.org Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Follow @FTWeekend on Instagram and X, and subscribe to our podcast Life and Art wherever you listen...
...At one end an orange bench made from a piece of its steel structure provides a place to look out over the landscape at a hilltop town which was once a Roman settlement....
...The building looks a little like something from rural Denmark in the early 1960s but perhaps that should be understood as a complement rather than a critique, an acknowledgment of the qualities of serious...
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