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Telling storeys
Themed ‘The Laboratory of the Future’, the International Architecture Exhibition returns to Venice this year. We meet the professionals breaking new ground
Nation buildings
Architects are using their craft to give Ghana an optimistic narrative fit for the 21st century. Can they ‘ignite the ambition of a country’?
Tools of the trade
Expectations of buildings are constantly changing. So how can developers keep pace? By arming themselves with forward-thinking architects and an open mind. These projects hammer the point home.
Ground force
At the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, dialogue is focused on the effects of tourism, sustainability and communal living, as well as the lasting impact of contemporary architecture.
South facing
How Graz marries world-class culture and architecture with a relaxed, Mediterranean vibe.
Complex life
How Whitlam Place in Melbourne eschews the cookie-cutter design of most new apartment complexes springing up in the fast-growing city.
Thinking out loud
Philosopher Alain de Botton has persuaded celebrated architect Peter Zumthor to make a home for contemplation.
Beauty and the beast
If the forces of mediocrity aren’t challenged then ambitious architecture is too easily threatened with eradication, as the case of 15 Clerkenwell Close only too sadly shows.
Singular visions
Five decades after rejecting architecture's conventions, Elizabeth Diller remains stubbornly curious — the counterculture nonconformist who accidentally built New York's most beloved public space.
