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AR in May continues exploration of the public realm, largely concentrating on the nature of interior space for public use. Nyrens Arkitektkontor have made an exemplary library in Linkoping, Sweden, which offers a gentle luminous space in a park for quiet contemplation. Williams and Tsien's swimming pool at Cranbrook in the USA is renowned for its sublety and thoughtful resolution of both human and tectonic issues. Two religious buildings, Pierre-Louis church at Bercy near Paris and Hoger Hare's Catholic Centre in Berlin, show very different approaches to the numinous. Juan Navarro Baldeweg's new Altamira Museum in Spain brings the architect's intense concern with myth and its revelation in construction to bear on reinterpreting one of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world.

Leonhard Lapin contributes a view from Tallinn, Estonia, a country where after a long depression, architectural talent is beginning to flower again. Our monthly house is by Benson + Forsyth -- a sympathetic conversion of nineteenth-century cottages on a factory site in north London. And we shall of course have our regular articles like Delight, Design Review and Browser. Get 12 inspirational issues delivered to your door at a discount by using the subscription form. Or use our website, guaranteed secure for monetary transactions: www.arplus.com