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Cosmic metros, UFO circus tops and a 3,000C sun gun: the mesmerising architecture of Tashkent
From its cavernous domed bazaar to its ravishingly muscular museum, the Uzbek capital has one of the world’s w…
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‘What they threw away, I used’: the story behind Nek Chand’s 25-acre outsider art masterpiece
This forest of intricately decorated statues was begun in secret by a man who never considered himself an arti…
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World’s best building award won by rainwater-harvesting hospital in rural Bangladesh
RIBA’s international prize 2021 has been won by Kashef Chowdhury’s $2m Friendship hospital in a water-logged p…
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A £300 monsoon-busting home: the Bangladeshi architect fighting extreme weather
From a mosque that breathes to innovative bamboo houses, Marina Tabassum has won the prestigious Soane medal f…