Architecture
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Decaying but beloved, Tokyo’s Capsule Tower faces uncertain future
When it was built in 1972, it was the capital’s only example of the metabolism architectural movement – but ti…
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‘Vanity projects’: China to introduce tighter limits on skyscrapers
Buildings higher than 250 metres to be banned in cities with fewer than 3 million peopleChina has said it will…
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China’s ugliest buildings: contest to celebrate unsightly architecture begins
This year’s contenders include a violin-shaped church and a ‘welcome to hell’ glass bridge joining two mountai…
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Tiny New Zealand airport that tells Māori love story in running for global design award
Regional hub in New Plymouth – built on land seized from Māori in 1960 – is up against the likes of New York’s…
- Architecture, Art, Art and design, Culture, India, Narendra Modi, Sculpture, South and Central Asia, World news
Modi’s bulldozing of parliament shows him as the architect of a Hindu Taliban | Anish Kapoor
Flattening the majestic Murghal-inspired buildings is the latest stage in a hateful, vanity-fuelled campaign t…
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India’s supreme court gives go-ahead for controversial new parliament building
Critics say Narendra Modi’s $3bn redevelopment of Lutyen’s central vista is ‘expensive vanity project’India’s …
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Modi’s plan to rebuild India’s parliament draws fierce criticism
Anish Kapoor among those pouring scorn on redevelopment of Lutyens’ central vista, branding it an act of ‘poli…
- Architecture, Art and design, Coronavirus outbreak, Culture, India, Narendra Modi, South and Central Asia, World news
Modi the fanatic is using the coronavirus crisis to destroy India’s heritage | Anish Kapoor
A disastrous redevelopment of Lutyens’ parliament buildings in Delhi is being rushed through to cement the PM’…
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Chinese province closes all glass bridges over safety fears
Series of injuries and deaths prompts closure of 32 glass-bottomed attractions in HebeiThey were meant to be f…
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Redesigning Delhi’s Champs Élysées: ‘It represents all that’s complex about urban India’
From heaving traffic and dense crowds to car-free and tranquil: that’s the vision for Chandni Chowk. But is it…