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...What about Rio? Edwin HeathcoteRio, you’d have to go to the to the beachfronts, to Copacabana and Ipanema....
...Chez Georges, Brazil This Rio house, overlooking Sugarloaf Mountain and the Guanabara Bay, is the work of architect Wladimir Alves de Souza....
...The French industrial designer Samy Rio, for instance, explores the industrialisation of bamboo through products such as hair dryers and lanterns made from the versatile grass, while the Welsh furniture...
...So the events that take place in them assume greater importance: Edinburgh’s Hogmanay; the Venice, London and Rio carnivals; the ubiquitous Christmas markets that make everywhere a simulacrum of a second-tier...
...Alleged cocaine trafficker Edwin Lobo Dorado was caught last month by Bolivian security forces checking drivers’ papers as part of the strict government-imposed quarantines....
...New York, London, Shanghai, Jakarta, Manila, Houston, Miami, Rio de Janeiro — all these cities and more are threatened by potential rises in sea level from climate change....
...Its Casa Santa Teresa embedded in a steeply sloping site in Rio de Janeiro is a delicate and deceptively simple design while its studio house in the same city, with its woven screen and slender steel structure...
...He was accompanying Arnaldo Rios Soto, a severely autistic man in his twenties who was sitting in the road playing with his toy truck....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic Photographs: Camera Press; Bloomberg; Associated Press...
...Born in Argentina in 1928, Le Parc, now 88, has lived in Paris since 1958, where both Soto and Cruz-Diez were living at the time....
...The success of this most urban of crafts spread to the colonies and the streets of Macau, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro....
...Alan told us that when, on the pillaging expedition of 1541, Hernando de Soto first saw Native Americans assembling beyond what he called El Rio de la Florida, he thought they must be dwarfs....
...When the game went to a shootout, the decisive penalty was between Chelsea’s Nicolas Anelka and Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar....
...Rio’s sunny hillside favelas are enjoying a glossy revival as tourist attractions ahead of next year’s Olympic Games....
...Sir, On the matter of many inner-city slums, like those in Rio, it would be easy to eliminate them through a simple strategy (“Tear down the slums and let self-assembly cities flourish”, Edwin Heathcote,...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Photographs: Atul Loke; Getty Images...
...It is a very different experience to tramp the pavements of a Georgian London square, the sandy surface of Birdcage Walk, the cobbles of Montmartre, the monochrome paving stones of Rio’s beaches, or the...
...The 1980s were the zenith of Fiorucci’s success, with shops in Los Angeles on Rodeo Drive and in Tokyo, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro and Hong Kong....
...Edwin Heathcote Architecture correspondent In southeast England the problem is the lack of construction of new, affordable housing, not the demolition of existing buildings....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic...
...He finds them in Harlem, Dakar and Rio: dark-skinned, well-built, confident men (and, lately, women) willing to pose for his huge, historical do-overs....
...Perhaps the most famous planned city is Brasília, built in the 1960s as a post-colonial capital to take over from Rio de Janeiro....
...At the other end of the scale, in Brazil, is Rio de Janeiro’s astonishing programme with IBM, the technology company, to establish its “intelligent operations centre”....
...Edwin Heathcote FT architecture correspondent “Look out for houses built for water. The floating houses and glass façades of IJburg in Amsterdam might look pretty good in a century....
...“I’ve never seen anything like this in Brazil,” says Edwin Portal, a Peruvian who moved to São Paulo 20 years ago....
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