Category: Build & Destroy
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Nothing Left to Chance: Chicago’s Millennium Park
Martijn Sargentini explores the ostentatious design and experience of Millennium Park in Chicago.
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Building Cultural Symbols: Battling for Creative Status
Isabella Rossen considers the implications of the Taipei Performing Arts Centre (TPAC) and Hong Kong’s Museum M+ on local art and culture.
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Sunny Beach: The resort dream on the Bulgarian seaside
From modernism to ‘mafia-Baroque’: Miroslav Damyanov describes the cultural and architectural changes in Bulgaria’s Sunny Beach over the past few decades.
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New Era, New Station: Design in Birmingham and Rotterdam
Marco Bontje on starchitecture at two major train stations: in the English city of Birmingham and the Dutch city of Rotterdam.
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Photo Essay: Helsinki Rising
In a photo essay, Nora takes us on a walk to Keski-Pasila, Helsinki, a former area of rail activities and now a controversial redevelopment housing project.
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Uniting a Divided City: A Case Study in Silwan
How is city planning in Jeruzalem a subtle powerful tool for the Israeli government to rule East-Jeruzalem, where the majority of residents is Palestinian?
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25 Years of Post-Wall Change in Berlin
Berlin has changed a lot after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Marco Bontje reports on 25 years of post-Wall change and gentrification in Kolowitzplatz.
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Ponte Tower: Pipe Dream of Johannesburg
Johannesburg’s Ponte Tower used to be a symbol for white priviledge under the apartheid regime, but soon became an icon of decline and crime.
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Life and Death of Shopping Streets in Vienna
A walk through a shopping street is a window into the history of a neighborhood, with old and new stores right next to each other. Vienna has quite some nice storefronts dating back to the 1950s or even older.
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Konza Technology City: Between Vision and Reality
Why are New Towns being developed and how feasible is their construction really? Author Eline Splinter examines these questions by taking a closer look at the plans for Konza Technology City, Kenya. .