Justin McGuirk

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    What's in store?

    2004-01-09T00:00:00

    Herzog & de Meuron were so bent on a particular look for an artistic warehouse-cum-showroom, they were prepared to go to any lengths to achieve it …

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    Case studies

    2003-12-19T00:00:00

    Legal editor Justin McGuirk's miscellany

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    To the bastion

    2003-12-12T00:00:00

    Francisco Mangado's concert hall in Pamplona has received rapturous applause from the locals … well, all except the odd terrorist. We take a peek into a peculiar tale

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    Arcangels

    2003-11-28T00:00:00

    Rome Has nearly 1000 churches.

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    New York, New Look

    2003-11-28T00:00:00

    Manhattan: Where modern office blocks come big and dumb. But now, suddenly, design is sexy again, clients are making a brand new start of it and European architects are being given a chance. We start spreading the news …

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    shh … Abalos & Herreros' dreamlike library is too good for words

    2003-11-21T00:00:00

    The Usera Library in Madrid doesn't seem entirely real – more like a building you might encounter in a dream.

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    Crisp and complex

    2003-11-14T00:00:00

    A cuboid visitors centre in an Austrian vineyard bottles 900 years of tradition for slurping, sloshing wine bibbers.

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    Cecil Balmond

    2003-11-07T00:00:00

    He doesn't recognise fixed systems of order, closed symmetries or assumptions of hierarchy, and sees structure as connective patterns. Man's clearly a bounder. We try to talk some sense into him.

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    Goodnight, Vienna

    2003-10-31T00:00:00

    Widescreen reality from the comfort of your own bed.

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    Wild things

    2003-09-26T00:00:00

    Blobby. Sparkly. Bendy. Spiky. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTVs today don't have to be square and straight – as a 21st-century architect you can really go crazy with ideas of fantastical design. Justin McGuirk looks at three schemes that will blow your mind

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    Temporary Queens

    2003-08-29T00:00:00

    Each summer for the past four years the PS1 forecourt has hosted an architectural installation, designed by the winner of the centre's Young Architects Programme. The programme, which has been a launching pad for thrusting practices such as SHoP (Sharples Holden and Pasquarelli), was won this year by Tom Wiscombe ...

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    Move it!

    2003-05-23T00:00:00

    Our future is gridlocked cities, scarred countrysides, suffocating pollution and a bunch of architects racing to find ways of making sure it doesn't happen. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV found out how at the Rotterdam biennale

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    Gym’ll fix it

    2003-02-14T00:00:00

    Faced with 3 m of snow each year, the patients of Japan’s Odate hospital had nowhere to exercise in winter. But then along came Shigeru Ban with a characteristically unconventional solution – a subterranean gymnasium under a dome of pure plywood. ...

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    Brixton Belle

    2003-01-24T00:00:00

    The supreme winner of the 2002 Brick Awards illustrates how the domestic connotations of brick can reconcile high-density inner-city development with living spaces that make people feel at home.

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    Space station

    2002-11-29T00:00:00

    In the planet's most barren landscape, a highly-trained crew of scientists are on a single mission: to track inter-stellar activity using the world's largest telescope. But they need somewhere to live …