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‘This will not be swept away’: the bamboo homes helping Pakistan’s post-flood rebuild
A year on from devastating floods, a renowned architect is leading a project to build affordable and sustainab…
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In defence of New Zealand’s ‘crappiest fountain ever’ | Letter
Ainsley Dawrent responds to an undiplomatic comment about the bucket fountain at Cuba Mall in WellingtonToby F…
- Art and design, Culture, Design, Global development, Illustration, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, Protest, South and Central Asia, World news
‘My first time holding a gun’: from Myanmar student to revolutionary soldier – a cartoon
Faced with increasing state violence, young people across Myanmar are learning to fight. This is one young wom…
- Art and design, Culture, Design, Global development, Illustration, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, Protest, South and Central Asia, World news
‘My first time holding a gun’: from Myanmar student to revolutionary soldier – a cartoon
Faced with increasing state violence, young people across Myanmar are learning to fight. This is one young wom…
- Architecture, Awards and prizes, Bangladesh, Culture, Design, South and Central Asia, The RIBA, World news
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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Gold of the Great Steppe review – the breathtaking lives of history’s ‘barbarians’
Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeFrom their astounding burial mounds to their dazzling horses dressed up as mythic…
- Afghanistan, Animation in film, Art and design, Culture, Design, Global development, Illustration, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘I’d like to join Pixar one day’: meet Afghanistan’s first female animator
Born under Taliban rule, Sara Barackzay studied abroad and now hopes to start her own schoolA woman in traditi…
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Venerable trees and a gothic market: heritage-hunting in fast-changing Pune
The illustrated city: Gleaming skyscrapers are springing up, but a wander through this Indian city’s labyrinth…