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Lipsky + Rollet Architectes. Nov 1, 2009 1177
TYIN Tegnestue. Nov 1, 2009 577
L'Escaut Architectures. Nov 1, 2009 555
This memorial to one ordinary girl has come to represent a huge loss of life. Oct 1, 2009 693
071 Martin Luther Museum. Oct 1, 2009 817
072 Primary School. Oct 1, 2009 525
073 'I'm lost in Paris' house. Oct 1, 2009 571
A simple place of worship finds itself a charged symbol of the visibility of Islam in European society. Book review Oct 1, 2009 370
065 Cruz Y Ortiz. Sep 1, 2009 642
067 Activity and Learning Centre. Sep 1, 2009 583
056 Andalusia's Museum of Memory. Aug 1, 2009 1247
058 Church. Aug 1, 2009 537
061 House with balls. Aug 1, 2009 668
The AR Awards for Emerging Architecture. Jul 1, 2009 466
051 Pope John Paul II hall. Jul 1, 2009 733
054 crane house. Jul 1, 2009 532
Skill: creative business units. Jul 1, 2009 675
A new generation is finding its voice in Portugal. Jul 1, 2009 369
Francisco Mangado. Jun 1, 2009 981
Lacatons & Vassal. Jun 1, 2009 728
A fresh take on the fish market. Brief article May 1, 2009 103
Copper in architecture awards. Brief article May 1, 2009 142
Public housing: Jakob + MacFarlane architects. May 1, 2009 992
Juvet Landscape Hotel: Jenson & Skodvin. May 1, 2009 505
The only place you can't do it is in the polar regions, for obvious reasons. May 1, 2009 683
Madinat Al-Zahra Museum. Apr 1, 2009 603
Ground and sky: Grafton Architects' building for Milan's Bocconi university synthesises the tough yet sensuous character of the city. Mar 1, 2009 1275
Magic carpet: Sanjeev Shankar's New Delhi art installation explores the city's take on ecology and celebrates the nation's 'make do and mend' culture. Mar 1, 2009 520
Rural retreat: a robust response to a challenging environment. Mar 1, 2009 666
Historical drama: a new museum for Cartagena's amphitheatre reinvigorates the Spanish city's heritage. Feb 1, 2009 1041
In the open air: to transform a century-old warehouse into a new cultural centre for Paris, Jakob + Macfarlane took circulation outside with a radical tubular-steel grid. Feb 1, 2009 1226
Force of nature: as the world confronts the current environmental crisis, landscape design assumes a new evangelising power. Nov 1, 2008 1141
Paradise found: this garden of earthly delights was one of the rare hits of the Venice Biennale. Nov 1, 2008 980
Top of the copse: a dramatic new treetop walkway at London's Kew Gardens brings nature vividly vertiginously to life. Nov 1, 2008 470
The UIA's international travelling circus touched down in Turin for four days of discourse and design. Aug 1, 2008 524
On the wing; Beijing's new airport marks the latest phase in the evolution of a quintessentially modern building type. Aug 1, 2008 1051
Three is the magic number; Catherine Slessor flew from London to Beijing, from airport purgatory to airport paradise. Aug 1, 2008 1047
Urbane guerrillas: the historic reciprocity between culture and the city can help reforge architecture with a sense of civic purpose. Jun 1, 2008 1183
Corpus continuum; Wright & Wright's new library adds to a historic college landscape. Jun 1, 2008 1119
Future imperfect: Architects must use their talents wisely if the more extreme visions of a dystopian future are to be forestalled. Cover story May 1, 2008 950
Jorn Utzon's 90th birthday is the subject of an elegant Festchrift, with Sydney to the fore. May 1, 2008 373
Denver's new MCA celebrtes radical art and architecture. Apr 1, 2008 1550
Stone age: Marc Newson's extraordinary marble furniture is an alchemy that coaxes sensuous line from solid stone. Apr 1, 2008 382
Emerald green. Feb 1, 2008 354
We'll always have Paris: 30 years on, Richard Rogers comes home to the Pompidou Centre. Feb 1, 2008 818
Emerging Architecture: despite still struggling to make their professional mark, young architects can be a powerful force for good. Dec 1, 2007 1152
Khartoum Zen: a place of prayer and meditation for all faiths. Brief article Dec 1, 2007 289
Beside the seaside: ... where the steel bands play, Tiddley-om-pom-pom! Dec 1, 2007 282
Healing light: a message of condolence and solidarity in Madrid. Brief article Dec 1, 2007 269
Field studies: Shenyang architectural university in China enjoys a productive landscape. Dec 1, 2007 313
Plastic fantastic: Jurgen Mayer H returns to the AR with unique style. Brief article Dec 1, 2007 249
Cut and fold: a new gallery for contemporary art in Seoul is a radical urban sculpture. Brief article Dec 1, 2007 263
Breeze block: this Dhaka apartment block leads by example. Brief article Dec 1, 2007 188
Seeds of change: this lively little pre-school suggests a new approach to education in South Africa. Dec 1, 2007 376
Remake, remodel: old shipping containers are inventively cannibalised to create a focus for play. Brief article Dec 1, 2007 259
Delight. Brief article Dec 1, 2007 211
Funky Fouquet: an upmarket hotel is reborn as a historical replicant. Nov 1, 2007 549
Earth and fire: a new glass museum synthesises industry and poetry. Nov 1, 2007 557
Urban ornament: a temporary pavilion for Munster's international sculpture festival animates an urban backwater. Nov 1, 2007 514
The stone and the Feather: culture unites us and makes us human, but our expectations of the buildings that contain it continue to evolve. Oct 1, 2007 1272
Walking on water: Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa apply their reductivist rigour to Almere's new arts centre. Oct 1, 2007 1072
From Rocha with love: fashion designer John Rocha's Mayfair flagship is a subtle remodelling of a historic hostelry. Oct 1, 2007 458
Delight. Sep 1, 2007 342
Life's a beach: Thomas Heatherwick kicks off the English summer with a trip to the seaside. Aug 1, 2007 791
Seismic Swatch: a new retail and office tower in Ginza exploits cutting edge structural design to cope with seismic loading. Aug 1, 2007 435
Zaha's progress. Aug 1, 2007 631
Force for good: this new police station reflects a wider cultural and political transformation. Jun 1, 2007 547
Stair master: this house in northern Portugal is a triumph over a difficult sloping site. May 1, 2007 726
White cube: Alberto Campo Baeza's Iberian extremism finds renewed expression. May 1, 2007 443
Space oddity: UN Studio's new house in upstate New York is a provocative exploration of space. May 1, 2007 632
Green gauge: these civic offices in Melbourne provide a radical new paradigm for green buildings. Apr 1, 2007 639
The art of alchemy: simple materials are magically transformed in these offices for a film company in Santa Monica. Apr 1, 2007 486
Dance cage: dramatically enclosed by a skeletal concrete structure, this dance centre adds life to the city. Feb 1, 2007 534
Monochrome vision. Feb 1, 2007 425
Sensing the future: looking at the shape of things to come, the AR begins a new year with a global survey of work in progress. Jan 1, 2007 953
Delight: this dazzling installation in a Hong Kong park celebrates a Chinese lunar festival. Jan 1, 2007 248
Emerging Architecture: this year's AR Awards programme yielded its customary crop of invention, sensitivity and optimism. Dec 1, 2006 1400
Taking flight: the airport, that most challenging of modern building types, is civilised and uplifted. Dec 1, 2006 491
Pod life: the potential of concrete is explored in this delicate yet robust structure. Dec 1, 2006 209
Bridging the past: destroyed in the nineteenth century, this bridge has been imaginatively reborn. Dec 1, 2006 248
Strung up: this diaphanous tensile structure goes with the wind. Dec 1, 2006 268
Tea bunker: the traditional Japanese tea house gets a new and surprising twist. Dec 1, 2006 240
Desert bloom: this multipurpose building offers hope to a remote indigenous community. Dec 1, 2006 395
Danish dipping: the hardy Danes show how public bathing can be civilised and fun. Dec 1, 2006 288
Death duty: this new cemetery sensitively reinterprets the necropolis for the modern age. Dec 1, 2006 259
Touching the void: this bold viewing platform brings tourists thrillingly close to nature. Dec 1, 2006 307
Communing with nature: deep in a Thai forest, Buddhist monks embrace tranquillity and contemplation. Dec 1, 2006 225
Delight. Dec 1, 2006 230
Extra terrestrial: new student halls in a remote Icelandic campus combine poetry with pragmatism. Nov 1, 2006 510
Silo revival: two former grain silos on a Copenhagen waterfront are inventively remodelled into flats by adding external layers. Nov 1, 2006 435
The punk biennale: this year's Venice Biennale eschewed the usual trophy architecture in pursuit of the soul of the city, with mixed results. Oct 1, 2006 797
Delight: China's long overdue debut at the Venice Biennale was a surprisingly thoughtful reflection on tradition and modernity. Oct 1, 2006 330
Climate of change: the vernacular lessons of buildings in hot latitudes can help shape an ecologically responsive architecture. Aug 1, 2006 1134
Suburban oasis: This new community centre in a suburb of Phoenix rejuvenates an existing park. Aug 1, 2006 829
Tropical mission: new offices for the British Council in Lagos both respond to and challenge local conditions. Aug 1, 2006 626
Shore patrol: This beach house explores traditional vernacular means of tempering climate. Aug 1, 2006 503
Southern comfort: the story of the making of Newbern's fire station marks a subtle shift in Rural Studio's social and architectural mission. Aug 1, 2006 902
Stairway to heaven: Thomas Heatherwick stuns Manhattan with his new store for Longchamp. Aug 1, 2006 554
Spanish soft machine: Madrid's new airport terminal is a highly expressive cocktail of political ambition and architectural ideas. Jul 1, 2006 1853
World's end hotel: This hotel in remote Patagonia treads thoughtfully and lightly in stunning landscape. Jul 1, 2006 846

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