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  • THE RETROFIT REVOLUTION

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    Giovanna Dunmall meets the architects who are saving money and reducing waste by breathing new life into old buildings ...  read more »


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  • THE SKY IS MINE

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    Around the world Kathryn Gustafson is feted as a leading landscape architect. But in Britain she is still the woman behind a much-derided memorial to Princess Diana. Michael Watts meets her ...  read more »


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  • WORLD'S SEXIEST BRAKES


    SCREECH | May 31st 2008

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    Ferrari is putting carbon-ceramic brakes in all its cars. Paul Markillie goes from 160kph to zero in four seconds flat ...

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  • ALEXANDER VON VEGESACK FALLS IN LOVE WITH THINGS


    ADVENTURES WITH OBJECTS | April 7th 2008

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    As the first-ever "World Design Capital", Turin is exhibiting Alexander von Vegesack's personal collection of industrial design objects. Vendeline von Bredow learns what makes the director of the Vitra Design Museum so keen on the things of everyday life ... 

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  • UGLY BY DESIGN


    "PRETTY" FURNITURE? HOW QUAINT | January 9th 2008

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    What's with all the ugly new chairs? The cartoonish lamps? Cliff Kuang tries to explain why someone might spend tens of thousands of dollars on a coffee table that looks like a wad of nicotine gum ...

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  • THE TYPEFACE THAT ATE THE WORLD


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    Evgeny Morozov catches up with "Helvetica", a documentary film about the history of the near-ubiquitous typeface, and finds it to be a persuasive story in miniature about the globalisation of visual culture ...

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