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‘Brutal and Beautiful’ – Saving the Twentieth Century
Postgraduate student Kit Bullas uses his recent visit to the Brutal & Beautiful post-war buildings exhibition to share his opinions on brutalist architecture that Landscape Architects can have a hand in saving. Yesterday, I finally had the opportunity to visit the Brutal & Beautiful exhibition at the Quadriga Gallery, Wellington Arch, London. On display, is a
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New Design Concept for the High Line at the Rail Yards
Yesterday James Corner of James Corner Field Operations and Ric Scofidio of Diller Scofidio + Renfro presented the new design concept for the High Line at Rail Yards at the School of Visual Arts Theatre in New York. The spur will be the main structure in the third and final section of the High Line.
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New Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape
Professor Neil Spiller has been appointed to the Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape. In this role he will continue to work with the Architecture and Landscape team to build the profile of Architecture and Landscape at Greenwich, and its move to the new Stockwell Street building. He will act as senior strategic lead in
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The Human Scale
The Human Scale, a Danish documentary film released in November 2012, is focused on the quality of people’s lives in cities. The Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has studied the human behaviour in cities for 40 years. He has documented how modern cities are not created for human interaction and he argues that we could
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Jonah – Factory Fifteen
Jonah is a short film made by factory 15, a UK based film and animation studio led by directors Jonathan Gale, Paul Nicholls, and Kibwe Tavares. The three of them come from a mixed background of architecture, 3-D visualisation, engineering, and photography. The film is centred around two young men who live in a sleepy
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