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Britain’s most influential modernist architect? In praise of the lost buildings of Georgie Wolton

Wolton, who died in 2021 aged 87, helped launch Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. Her dilapidated London home is almost all that remains of her fearless work

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Peter Buchanan obituary

Architect and writer who was concerned with the way buildings work within the natural world

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‘Like something out of The Flintstones’: the luxury flats causing fury in Folkestone

They’ve been compared to termite mounds, doner kebabs, even piles of poo. We report on the outrage that has greeted plans for seaside towers in the once faded town – with one-bedroom flats costing almost half a million pounds

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Germany must go back to the future

Renewables alone can't provide the clean energy we need to combat climate change

Salon

Architect Norman Foster: ‘I suppose in another life it would have been exciting to fly fighters’

The designer of the Gherkin on collaborating with Steve Jobs, feeling positive about humanity’s future and the strong work ethic of the north

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Sir Michael Hopkins obituary

One of Britain’s leading architects admired for the Mound stand at Lord’s, Westminster tube station and the 2012 Olympic velodrome

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Sir Michael Hopkins, Portcullis House and Mound Stand architect, dies aged 88

Hopkins was part of vanguard of ‘hi-tech’ architects who dominated building design in UK and beyond

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How two big Wall Street banks are rethinking the office for a post-pandemic future

From more air circulation to well stacked pantries, JPMorgan Chase and BNP Paribas are seeking to make the office a draw at a time when work-from-home is becoming commonplace.

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Why we abandoned nuclear energy

Nuclear power is low-carbon, and uses a fraction of the land as solar. Did we bet on the wrong horse?

Salon

Please do touch: Norwich Sainsbury Centre asks visitors to interact with art

Centre wants people to ‘release the power’ of living entities through interaction and lift museums out of Victorian era

The Guardian - UK

Ultimate Norman Foster: into the mind of the architect at Centre Pompidou

Norman Foster exhibition opens at Centre Pompidou in Paris, celebrating the renowned British architect's ground breaking and extensive body of work, while looking into the future

Wallpaper

English wine centre in Kent hopes for planning approval within days

Kentish Wine Vault aims to transform industry and produce English rival to prosecco

The Guardian - UK

Dormant volcanoes and working monorails: the grand designs of Ken Adam, master of the Bond-villain lair

A new book celebrates the late production designer whose elaborate concepts for films from Bond to Dr Strangelove influenced the likes of Norman Foster – and it all started with a felt-tip

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Eldred Evans obituary

Architect who combined classicism and modernism in designs for buildings such as Tate St Ives and the law courts at Truro

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Four 'fourth graces' that never made it off the drawing board

There was an outcry after the public's favourite design lost out to the controversial 'Cloud'

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‘Everything has gone’: liberated Ukrainians on rebuilding Kharkiv

After months of terror and death, residents pick up the pieces of their former life in frontline Saltivka

Liverpool Echo

Architect's secret cheeky message on city centre building

A rivalry inspired a design feature you may not have noticed before

Evening Standard

Queen Elizabeth II: The London buildings and Tube stations opened during her 70-year reign

In her seven decades on the throne, the Queen opened over 100 buildings in the capital alone. Here are some of the highlights from each decade

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Tony Hunt obituary

Structural engineer who built the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich and the huge biodomes at the Eden Project in Cornwall

Reuters

Star architect Foster to help plan Ukraine reconstruction

Renowned British architect Norman Foster will help plan Ukraine's reconstruction from the devastation caused by Russia's invasion, officials said on Friday while outlining the work of a United Nations task force coordinating the project.

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Ukrainians dismantle Norman Foster’s plan for Kharkiv

Norman Foster gets the cold shoulder from Ukrainian architects / Tom Kerridge defends soaring menu prices / Kate Humble loses her cool writing new cookbook / Andrew Neil’s return / Stanley Tucci will never choose between the stage and the kitchen

The Guardian - UK

Lord Norman Foster: ‘I still get the same buzz from designing buildings’

Norman Foster has designed some of the world’s most visually sumptuous buildings, from the Gherkin in London to the Reichstag in Berlin. Now 86, the pioneering architect shows no signs of slowing down

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