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Mass Timber in the Age of Mass Extinction

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This Very Normal Dutch Architecture Firm Remains Responsible for Designing a Deportation Machine

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Italy’s “Countryside” Does Not Need Saving

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NYC’s Reopening Plans Depend on a Holy Trinity of Diners, Designers, and Capital

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Ayn Rand’s Libertarian Utopia Provided the Blueprint for Billionaire Doomsday Prepping

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Is The Freeport Set to Become The Defining Architecture of Post-Brexit Britain?

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Digital Contact Tracing is the New “Smart” Frontier of Urban Surveillance

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The Virus Biennale: Shall We Call the Whole Thing Off?

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Coming to Terms with a Growth-Free Future

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Architects Declare a Climate Emergency But Can They Avoid Real Estate’s Greenwashing Tendencies?

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Bjarke Ingels and the Art of Greenwashing

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A Decade of Failed Architecture

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The Grenfell Elections: How Decent Housing Became Horribly, Brutally Possible

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99 Reasons to Support Independent Architecture Criticism in 2020

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Jakarta’s Superblocks Continue a Legacy of Urban Segregation

Degrowth is About Redistribution by Design, Not by Collapse

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The Deceptive Platform Utopianism of Google’s Sidewalk Labs

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Making Anti-Terror Infrastructure Pretty: The Most Depressing New Urban Design Challenge

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Hudson Yards Was Not Inevitable

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Maybe Modern Ruins Are Just the Kind of Failure We Need

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The Real Estate Sector is Using Algorithms to Work Out the Best Places to Gentrify

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Death Sentence: The Words That Bulldoze Our Cities

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Dear Jean Nouvel, Please Don’t “Revitalise” the Algiers Casbah

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Stop Seeing Climate Change as an “Opportunity” for Architecture

City Skins: Scenes from an Augmented Urban Reality

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London Becomes Museum

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A Conversation with Keller Easterling

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Amazon Urbanism: Patents and the Totalizing World of Big Tech Futures

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Failover Architectures: The Infrastructural Excess of the Data Centre Industry

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How J.G. Ballard’s Science Fiction Tells the Future of Our Privatized Cities

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Mallification: The Vengeful Return of the Mall in the 21st Century

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Gamespace Urbanism: City-Building Games and Radical Simulations

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Meet Our New Editors

A Journey to the Edge of Britain: Exploring the Thames Estuary

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The Collective is Not a New Way of Living – It’s an Old One, Commodified

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Remote-Control Architecture: Norman Foster’s Rwandan Droneport

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Clubbing’s Demise and the Downfall of London

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Architecture After Excess: The Palaces of Saddam’s Baghdad

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What’s An Architecture Biennale Good for Anyway?

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Self-Builds: Between Unruly Real Estate Markets and Failed Housing Policies

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Instagramming Architecture

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The Tyranny of the Filter Bubble and the Future of Public Space

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What the City of the Future Looks Like If We Don’t Change Course

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The Future of Work: Amsterdam’s Vijzelbank

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On Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza

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Going Embedded at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2016: The Next Economy

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Neoliberal Shock Therapy: The Post-Katrina Redevelopment of New Orleans

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What this MVRDV Rendering Says About Architecture and the Media

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How Skopje’s Urban Makeover Alienated Locals

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Dredging the Dutch City, Part 1: Rotterdam

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Orphan City

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8 Reasons You Will Also Like Postmodern Architecture in 2016

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Turncoats: ‘Architectural debates are rubbish’

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Capital Cairo: A Regime of Graphics

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Did Suburbia Fail?

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Enclosed Paradise: Istanbul’s Microcities as Megaprojects

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Haussmann and the Sanitisation of Amsterdam

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Belgrade Waterfront: An Investor’s Vision of National Significance

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New York City’s Island of the Dead

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Photo Essay: Jing Jin City

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Photo Essay: Metropole

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Photo Essay: Utopia by the Plot

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Photo Essay: Construction Sights

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Architecture as Disaster: Business as Usual

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Hungary’s Identity Crisis Fought in Concrete and Bronze

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Lelystad Zuid – Never So Bright

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Cairo New Towns – From Desert Cities to Deserted Cities

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Madness and Method at St. Elizabeths

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ArchDaily and Architecture Criticism

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The Case: MoMA vs. Middle-Aged Men

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San Francisco’s NEMA: Parvenu Luxury, Surrealistically Marketed

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Failed Architecture Tracked Changes at the São Paulo Architecture Biennale

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Privatized Publicness: Post-Communist Public Space in Bucharest

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UNStudio Tried Riding the Open Source Wave, but Failed

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Is the Architectural Profession Still Relevant?

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The Story Behind Failure: Copenhagen’s Business District Ørestad

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The Mysterious Adventures of the Boy in the Yellow Cap

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FA#10: Beyond Failure

Is Failure Central to the Architectural Profession?

Why L.A. is Important

Towards a Design-City (Post-Design-Capital)

The Copycat Hype: Learning from a Saint Peter Replica

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Architects Talking Architecture

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Game Over for Architects?

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The New Wave: Drifting Towards the Shores of Simplification

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Wouter Vanstiphout on Architecture and Politics

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Nakagin Capsule Tower, Shimbashi, Tokyo

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Failed Architecture #01: Preservation as a Matter of Urgency

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Berlin’s Palast der Republik

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