Between Two Worlds: Ahmadreza Schricker and the Architecture of Return
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I met Ahmadreza Schricker in Reyhanlı. This interview follows the architecture he has built between New York and Iran, and the Argo Contemporary Art…
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture: Building Hope
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture found its winners for the 16th time this year. The award highlights projects that produce social benefit and…
Further Towards a New Architecture
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As jury chair for offices at the 2022 World Architecture Festival in Lisbon, I saw reuse take the centre, and demolition hold its ground in Türkiye.
In the Wake of İhsan Bilgin
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İhsan Bilgin, Gitanes in hand, taught me at Yıldız to find my own voice. He has left us, and a 2004 recording remains.
What Casa da Musica Set Me Thinking
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Rem Koolhaas's Casa da Musica in Porto, a guided tour with my small son, and the suspicion that provocation itself now feels cringe.
After Richard Rogers
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An architect of the right measure beside Foster and Piano, and the two women of Team 4 whom the bright years kept out of the light.
The Building That Embodies the Spirit of the Age: The Einstein Tower
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Eight months pregnant in the heat of 2019, I met Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower in Potsdam, and the two wars that ran through his life.
On Turning Forty
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I have been saying I am forty for years. The real birthday razed my routines and set another heart beating, my son Can's.
Entering Madrid through a Splendid Door
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Barajas Terminal 4, by Rogers Stirk Harbour, is the door into Madrid: a bamboo ceiling, broad eaves, and a wave of a roof carried on slender columns.
Chasing the Ghosts of the Past: Berlin Tempelhof Airport
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A guided tour of Tempelhof, ten years after it closed: the airport Foster calls the mother of all airports, and the past Berlin still reads in its…