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...Martínez Lapeña-Torres Architects did a wonderful job, with the new sections being understated and the old house restored to even more garish colours than before....
...The five triangular prisms of his haunting skyline sculpture, the Torres de Satélite (1958), designed with Mathias Goeritz, is perhaps Mexico City’s best-known public artwork....
...Better known now, probably, for his urban-scale sculptures (notably the vivid sculptural skyline Torres de Satélite designed with Luis Barragán in 1957), Goeritz is represented here by a huge snake winding...
...From the 29-storey Torre Coblanca, Benidorm’s first high-rise (1966), to the incredible 26-storey Torre de Benidorm (1975), his buildings spanned the sleek international style to the expressive late Modernism...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...Ditto for young Miguel Torres when he had some new wines to show off....
...The city of words and fading signs that surrounds the site of the new Whitney Museum is meaty, writes Edwin Heathcote....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic...
...Matt, Betsy and Brad were painted by Horacio Torres; her youngest, Peter, was painted at the age of 16 by her late nephew, Bruno Fonseca. “Portraits are magical, I think....
...But some of the more subversive works inside, from Félix González-Torres’ to Tom Sachs’ consumerist critiques in materials from hard candies to bodged foamboard construction, make Piano’s globalised architectural...
...ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, edited by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumoner with photographs by Iwan Baan, Lars Müller Publishers, RRP£38 Torre David in Caracas...
...French architect Jean Nouvel’s Torre Agbar also became an instant icon – a contemporary of London’s Gherkin, its iridescent sheath makes it the more elegant of the two....
...He made his name internationally with Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe on the banks of the Seine; his Torre Agbar in Barcelona is one of the few really elegant and inventive skyscrapers of recent years; and...
...His Torre Agbar in Barcelona redefined the city’s skyline whilst a recent apartment block in Manhattan (40 Mercer St) caused a real stir....
...gorgeous buildings – from the exquisite Institut du Monde Arabe on the banks of the Seine (with which he made his name exactly 20 years ago) to the glorious, colour-saturated, pixellated shell of Barcelona’s Torre...
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