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Monumental Lies

Robert’s recent book Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past is proving a critical success. The book examines the politicisation of the historic environment and reminds us why material evidence matters so much. It has been a book of the year in the Financial Times,  the Art Newspaper and elsewhere. Robert is undertaking a…

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Can a house have a £MeToo moment? Restoring Eileen Gray’s pioneering house

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Extending the canvas. Tate Modern’s towering extension.

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The world’s oldest temple. Did architecture begin here?

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Jamie Fobert

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The Mexican’s Serpentine Pavilion

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John Pawson’s holiday home. Welsh Wizardry

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All about Yves

YSL in Marrakech. All about Yves

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First look inside Grayson Perry and FAT’s fantasia.

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Title: Weimarana Subtext: Does the new Bauhaus museum have unintended bite?

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BIG profile

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Terror and the city

After the Paris attacks: Does modernism lead to terrorism.

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Caruso St John

Tuesday 29 September 2015 The practice profiled on the opening of the Newport St Gallery

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Heritage and human rights

Why it is vital to link the two. Op Ed for the Evening Standard.

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Is art worth a life?

The story behind the film. For The Times of London

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From Ruth Glass to Spike Lee

The origins of gentrification. For The Guardian

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Jan Gehl on cycling cities

Bevan interviews the pioneering urban designer for Mondial

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New Whitney

Piano’s new Whitney Museum is a dull affair, writes Bevan in the Architectural Review

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Architecture in the post parametric age for Intelligent Life

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Cruz y Ortiz’s remodelling of the Rijksmuseum has many qualities but has it solved the museum’s basic problems?

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All that is solid melts

The Louvre in Lens brings a shine to a former spoil tip in northern France

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Me London

Can hi-tech architecture create the perfect hotel bedroom?

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Gehry’s business school in Sydney prioritises branding over architecture.

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National Gallery of Australia

The new Aboriginal wing makes a less than impressive entrance.

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Art in the office

Durbach Block’s creative HQ for Melbourne fashion maven and art patron Naomi Milgrom.

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Hepworth & Turner

Chipperfield’s architectural double act. The Hepworth is a fine follow up to Berlin’s Neues Museum.

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North Bank South Bank

Australia’s arts complexes under the spotlight.

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Lightbulb moments

Changing a light bulb is easier than building a green power plant but the new globes bring their own problems.

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WOHA

Singapore finest. WOHA profiled in The Australian’s Wish magazine.

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RMITvUTS

Sydney and Melbourne’s architectural cultures go head-to-head

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The diva of decon’s first Australian interview.

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An architectural travel guide to design central.

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The inventor behind the Olympic torch.

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America’s fourth largest city has become the hipster heart of art and design.

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Venice Biennale 2012

Architecture’s new mood. For The Australian newspaper.

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Cycling Copenhagen

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