Fields Of Gold
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We have almost reached a tipping point in human history. If it hasn’t happened already, at some stage in the near future – probably in a developing country – a…
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Working On The Inside
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Sublime: Hannah, your experiences at the BBC were key to inspiring you to social activism. What do you remember about that time? Hannah Jones: It was a fantastic experience.…
Sustaining Our Identity
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Sublime: Why does heritage have a reputation of being old-fashioned or irrelevant, especially for young people? Francesco Badarin: Maybe we have to define ‘heritage’ better. We are in London,…
Addicted To Novelty
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Initially, my first paragraph was about the amazing and baffling technological changes that have taken place in the last ten years, the creations that I really don’t understand, that…
Home Evolution
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Tom Wolfe, American author and journalist, writing about New York as a city of change in 2001 shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attack, named Michael McDonough as one of only three New York architects doing work worthy of being described as being ‘on the cutting edge’. He was referring to McDonough’s then recently conceived e-House, a high-performance, website-controlled building tucked deep into the Hudson Valley woods in Stone Ridge, New York, which has been in construction since the beginning of the new millennium.
Right From The Start
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Learning your place Let’s start at the beginning. It kicks in at a particular developmental stage in childhood, when unfairnesses are felt more keenly possibly than ever again.…
The Science Of Spin
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In my work as a sports scientist I analyse a great deal of football videotape. Sometimes this is high-quality footage shot in the lab, or occasionally during my assignments with…
Concrete Forms
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Like all architects who have attained international recognition and status, David Adjaye is rarely in one place very long. We caught the Tanzanian-born 41-year-old just before a talk he gave for the Architecture Foundation at London’s Tate Modern. He was there to present his latest project, a contemporary art museum in Denver.
The ‘F’ Word
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When I told a friend that I was reading about the experience of Marian Partington, the sister of one of the women killed by Frederick and Rosemary West, in her…
