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‘Getting lost is good’: skybridge and floating stairs bring fun and thrills to mighty new Taiwan museum

With its soaring ceilings, meandering pathways and mesh-like walls, Taichung Art Museum, designed by Sanaa, sweeps visitors from library to gallery to rooftop garden for rousing views

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The Serpentine Pavilion 2025 Is a Poetic, 'Breathing' Installation That Calls for Unity in Challenging Times — Here's Our First Look

Unveiled today, architect Marina Tabassum's latest project captures the importance of community and transformation in the face of ongoing crises

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Architect Sou Fujimoto explains how the ‘idea of the forest’ is central to everything

Sou Fujimoto has been masterminding the upcoming Expo 2025 Osaka for the past five years, as the site’s design producer. To mark the 2025 Wallpaper* Design Awards, the Japanese architect talks to us about 2024, the year ahead, and materiality, nature, diversity and technological advances

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From brutalist school to space-age church: the architectural oasis deep in Trump country

Columbus, Indiana, is a mecca of modernism that still embodies the progressive ideals of its founders and star designers. Our writer explores ‘the Athens of the prairie’

The Guardian - UK

The seven best Los Angeles museums

Explore LA's world-class museums, set within architectural masterpieces, lush gardens, and breathtaking viewpoints

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'American Modern' surveys the 'total community' modernist project that was Columbus, Indiana

'American Modern', a new publication zooming in on the lesser-known architectural gems of Columbus, Indiana, and their impact, is out this month

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IM Pei's Everson Museum of Art gets a modern makeover

The East Wing of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY has been given a contemporary refresh by emerging Los Angeles studio MILLIØNS

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Year in review: top 10 architecture stories of 2023, selected by Wallpaper* architecture editor Ellie Stathaki

Stathaki presents her top 10 architecture stories of 2023, from a world-leading festival to lesser-known 20th-century architecture, contemporary transport hubs, museums and a pool to splash in

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Royal Academy’s Herzog & de Meuron show in London spotlights architecture for care

The Royal Academy of Arts launches its Herzog & de Meuron exhibition in London; we speak to them about the show, their approach to healthcare architecture and caring, and their rich body of work

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Serpentine Pavilion 2023 review – Lina Ghotmeh’s convivial canopy

The celebrated Beirut-born architect Lina Ghotmeh designed her pleated timber pavilion to bring people together in nature. It’s a nice idea, though the details let it down – and the Serpentine’s formula needs a rethink

The Guardian - UK

Serpentine Pavilion 2023 review – giant cocktail umbrella gives the park a party vibe

French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has unveiled her festive big top. And this symphony of timber is a lovely place to eat and think about food – if you can overlook the clumsy flat-pack feel

The Guardian - UK

Serpentine Pavilion 2023 invites everyone to the table

The Serpentine Pavilion 2023 launches to a design by Lina Ghotmeh, whose installation 'À table,' is an invitation to togetherness

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‘A Flintstone cave made by pranksters’: New York’s audacious new museum wing

It’s late and over budget but the Museum of Natural History’s $465m gallery gives a stunning home to its insects

The Guardian - UK

Studio Gang’s Richard Gilder Center brings organic tactility to New York City

The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation by Studio Gang marks a new era for New York City’s iconic American Museum of Natural History

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Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts launches its undulating Studio Gang design

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts by Studio Gang opens in Little Rock, USA, blending new construction and renovation

The Conversation

'A three-storey, luminous birdcage with suspended hanging gardens and an extensive crypt below': Sydney Modern is open at last

The Sydney Modern Project had the odds stacked against it since its inception in 2013. It has surely been the most controversial state gallery extension to be built in Australia.

The Guardian - UK

Move over Sydney Opera House – there’s a new superstar in town

It has been called the most significant cultural addition to the Australian city for 50 years. So how does the airy cascade of new galleries measure up? We take a tour of the A$344m (£191m) project

The Independent UK

The office of good intentions: Architecture and the American work space

A new book, via a series of essays, leads you through a collection of objects, systems, and buildings that have occupied the US office space in the last half-century

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The Royal College of Art’s new Battersea campus – forceful and distinctive

Herzog & de Meuron’s ruggedly handsome new building, home to everything from ceramics to robotics, aims to connect with the wider locality while preserving the college’s creative spirit

The Guardian - UK

A slice of Silicon Valley – inside the RCA’s colossal new £135m building

The Royal College of Art’s brutalist new building – by architects Herzog & de Meuron – reflects a shift from art school to science-tech powerhouse. But is a business-facing behemoth what its students really need?

Evening Standard

First look at Herzog & DeMeuron’s new RCA Battersea campus

These elegant new spaces are designed to be inclusive and outward-looking but can they really work in a security-conscious age?

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