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Pubs are necessary as well as enjoyable. Many are landmarks, often standing prominently at street corners and sometimes proudly surviving when all else around was swept away. Railway and underground stations – and thus whole districts of London – sometimes take their names: the Angel, Royal Oak, the Elephant and Castle, while Norwood Junction began […] More
This year’s Turner Prize shortlist includes the artists Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel and Nicole Wermers – and Assemble, an architectural collective of 18 under-30-somethings nominated for Granby Four Streets, a project to reclaim and renovate a number of apartments in Toxteth, Liverpool. In the usual flurry of hastily composed reactions, the typical critique – ‘How […] More
It is surely right that so comparatively soon after this devastating earthquake the world’s attention remains focused on the humanitarian aspect of the disaster. However, there is another cultural aspect to this tragedy that is only just beginning to be properly reported: the damage to the famed architectural and artistic heritage of the Kathmandu Valley […] More
The Serpentine Gallery has released images of its 15th annual Pavilion, to be designed by Spanish architects SelgasCano. The temporary structure will be an ‘amorphous, double-skinned, polygonal structure’, and like much of their previous work (including their own studio space in the Madrid woodland) it will explore how buildings and their interiors can interact with the natural environment in… […] More
The Prix Pictet was established in 2008 by the Pictet Group, to support photographers whose work confronts pressing environmental and social issues. The theme this year is ‘Consumption’. Eleven artists have been shortlisted for the prize, and will have their work exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum from 22 May–14 June. The winner will […] More
