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Ellen van Loon on her favourite architectural holiday spot, Jameos del Agua
While gazing into César Manrique’s brilliant white sea-water rock pool in Lanzarote, architect Ellen van Loon, partner at Dutch practice OMA, reflected on how architecture in its purest form is merely the definition of space. Here she takes a moment to recall a carefree summer holiday
Author: Ellen Van Loon
George Yabu’s experience of Buckminster Fuller’s Biosphere
George Yabu, of Yabu Pushelberg, recalls how a school trip to Montreal to see Buckminster Fuller’s Biosphere proved a perspective-shifting experience that still shapes his approach to design
Author: George Yabu
The layered monumentality of Antwerp Central Station
Jonathan Tuckey takes advantage of his travel hiccups to write up Antwerp’s majestic fin-de-siècle train station
Writer: Jonathan Tuckey
The strict simplicity of Maison de Verre
Alex Michaelis – co-founder of architecture studio Michaelis Boyd – sets his pen to work conjuring this enchantingly functional 20th-century Parisian house, in all its pared-back glory
Author: Alex Michaelis
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The Guards Tent at Drottningholm Palace
Swedish-born designer Martin Brudnizki takes a writerly trip down memory lane and recalls his childhood visits to the Guards Tent in Stockholm’s Drottningholm Palace
Author: Martin Brudnizki