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Jon Astbury

  • Writer, Dezeen
  • Assistant Curator (Architecture and Design), Barbican Centre
London
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Berlin Bunkers: the post-military as cultural space

Berlin Bunkers: the post-military as cultural space

architectural-review.com — Berlin has a bunker problem. Or, that is perhaps how the unimaginative would describe it. Too expensive or dangerous to destroy, and structurally not particularly receptive to alterations, many have sat empty since World War Two, save for the occasional stint as torture chambers, banana storage or 90s techno/fetish clubs.
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Does technology limit your creativity? Read the AR's technology report

Does technology limit your creativity? Read the AR's technology report

architectural-review.com — The AR's global technology survey highlights an increasing use of 3D printing, virtual reality and even drones. Is all of this making us better designers?
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'Candy floss and whelks may have been swapped for lattes and panini, but dRMM's pier promises to ...

'Candy floss and whelks may have been swapped for lattes and panini, but dRMM's pier promises to ...

architectural-review.com — She wonders why for all she wants to see' Syd Barrett, 'She Took a Long Cold Look' 'How to have a staycation: 11 steps' ... 'five reasons a "staycation" might be for you' ... 'millions of families shun foreign holidays'.
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A449 Architects: 'We are enthused by the challenge of working with an existing form'

A449 Architects: 'We are enthused by the challenge of working with an existing form'

architectural-review.com — AR_EA Scotland: A449 Architects
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Folio: E-1027, Eileen Gray's architectural magnum opus

Folio: E-1027, Eileen Gray's architectural magnum opus

architectural-review.com — Rarely is a house so intertwined with the lives of those who built it and lived there
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Student Communion: Campus Hall in Odense, Denmark by C.F. Møller

Student Communion: Campus Hall in Odense, Denmark by C.F. Møller

architectural-review.com — Academic legend tells of a Copenhagen university professor, having travelled to Odense to see his new workplace, wandered up and down Niels Bohrs Allé unable to find it. 'Only after much vain searching did it occur to him it might be nestling behind the low hedge of dog-rose he had passed several times without noticing anything that remotely resembled a university,' recounts Professor Emeritus Per Boje.
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'As film designers, we can bend rules - and this ability to experiment can influence the architec...

'As film designers, we can bend rules - and this ability to experiment can influence the architec...

architectural-review.com — Tried and shelved by many directors, the film adaptation of JG Ballard's High-Rise was hugely anticipated, particularly when taken on by Ben Wheatley, who was known not only for making a small budget go a long way, but for a dark humour and creeping unease that would be perfectly suited to a Ballardian atmosphere.
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'If Hawksmoor's architecture is the essence of solidity, its history is anything but'

'If Hawksmoor's architecture is the essence of solidity, its history is anything but'

architectural-review.com — It was in these very pages (digital or otherwise), in November 1941, that John Summerson published an obituary - not for a person, but for St George-in-the-East, one of Nicholas Hawksmoor's 'big six' and bombed during the Blitz. 'Then, as now', writes Summerson, 'the churches must have seemed too noble, too sacerdotal for their neighbourhoods.'
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