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What is a good room? For this issue, The Architectural Review asked architects, curators and writers to describe a good domestic setting – real, remembered or imagined. For some, the room is one designed by Álvaro Siza or Jean-François Zevaco; for others, it is one depicted in an artwork, from a Berliner Zimmer in an 1845 painting by Adolph Menzel, to …
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The AR looks beyond isolated buildings, commissioning in-depth theoretical essays that engage with the wider social, cultural and political context architecture sits in, as well as the impact and potential of architectural cultures and practices
Kowloon Walled City: Surreal photographs of day-to-day life …
2014年4月9日 · Part of the south elevation, illustrating in the narrowness of its buildings how the Walled City had evolved from a squatter settlement. Individual huts had been redeveloped over time, rising to four or five storeys in the 1950s, then up to nine storeys in the early 1960s and reaching a maximum of 17 storeys in the 1970s.
SANAA | Architects | Architectural Review
Explore key works and seminal texts by Pritzker Prize winner Japanese architecture firm SANAA, founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, from Grace Farms to the Rolex Learning Centre in Switzerland to the Serpentine Pavilion in London.
Typology | Essays | The Architectural Review
In the AR’s Typology series, each building type is spliced open and its entrails closely examined. We collect the histories, evolutions and contemporary examples of each building type in one place: a complete short history of everything from housing estates to market halls, and prisons to public toilets, illustrated with case studies.
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Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed.
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Every building we feature has a story to tell. Whether we explore a new intervention that has shifted the fabric of the city surrounding it, pull back the covers on architectural prize-giving, or consider the possible replicable impact of a tiny prototype, every project – large or small, good or bad – contributes to an archive of the most culturally significant and architecturally ...
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A room in the wall: Ahilya Fort, Maheshwar
The 18th-century Ahilya Fort is situated by the banks of the river Narmada in the central Indian town of Maheshwar. Its tapered masonry walls stabilise the building and retain the hillock behind it, transferring the verticality of the terrain to the artificial structure.