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Tacheles in Ruins
Benjamin Busch
Adaptive Refuse
Joshua McWhirter
Stories on Earth: Challenging the Human/Non-Human Dichotomy
Chiara Dorbolò
and
Daphne Bakker
The Housing of Asylum Seekers in Former Military Barracks Must End
Jamie Griffiths
The Empty Houses Helping Kozarac’s Diaspora Hold on to Their Hometown
Ajna Babahmetovic
Ayn Rand’s Libertarian Utopia Provided the Blueprint for Billionaire Doomsday Prepping
Charlie Clemoes
OMA Uses Brutalist Aesthetics to “Greywash” the Luxury High Rise
Eric Lawler
Claiming Cinematic Space: Agnès Varda’s Pioneering Take on Women’s Urban Experience
Remy Carreiro
The City and the City and Coronavirus
Kevin Rogan
The Intentional Dilapidation of Historical Buildings Is Not Neglect, It’s a Subversive Act
Natasha Tabachnikoff
The Virus Biennale: Shall We Call the Whole Thing Off?
Charlie Clemoes
Watch It Die: The Managed Decline of Tainted Architecture
Owen Vince
A Decade of Failed Architecture
Failed Architecture
Degrowth is About Redistribution by Design, Not by Collapse
Mark Minkjan
Maybe Modern Ruins Are Just the Kind of Failure We Need
Mark Minkjan
Stop Seeing Climate Change as an “Opportunity” for Architecture
Joshua McWhirter
Community Wealth Building: An Idea Afraid of Its Own Radical Potential
Charlie Clemoes
Beirut’s Architecture of Erasure Countered by Literary Placemaking
Judith Naeff
London Becomes Museum
George Kafka
Photo Essay: Windows in Crisis – The Decline of Athens’ Commercial Cityscape
Nancy Katri
and
Chiara Dorbolò
What If Architects Were to Embrace, Rather Than Ignore, a Building’s Future?
René Boer
How J.G. Ballard’s Science Fiction Tells the Future of Our Privatized Cities
Hettie O'Brien
Pleasure Postponed: Pyongyang’s Tourist Hotels
Jake Valente
Social Life Triumphs in Sicily’s Empty Utopian Artscape
Claudia Sinatra
Talking Clubbing, Space and London with Gaika
Charlie Clemoes
Reinier de Graaf: “Architecture Is in a State of Denial”
Mark Minkjan
An Abandoned Aquarium in the Lebanese City of Batroun Still Shows Signs of Life
Gioia Sawaya
Hot Potato Heritage: Heidelberg’s Nazi Amphitheatre
Cécile Poulot
Aerial Imperialism: Syrian Ruinscapes and Vertical Media
Sina Zekavat
Wheatley-Provident Hospital: Kansas City’s Own Ruin
Benjamin Busch
and
Michael Adams
A Journey to the Edge of Britain: Exploring the Thames Estuary
Adam Tanaka
Architecture After Excess: The Palaces of Saddam’s Baghdad
Owen Vince
Photo Essay: The Fading Glory of Brazil’s Disappearing Love Motels
Mark Minkjan
Photo Essay: Albania’s Concrete Skeletons
antiforum
Spaces of Otherness: Ruins Through a Feminist Lens
Mark Minkjan
Slum Porn: Urban Misery as Catchy Imagery
René Boer
and
Mark Minkjan
The Forgotten Spaceships of the Po Valley
Martina Motta
and
Alessandro Benetti
Neoliberal Shock Therapy: The Post-Katrina Redevelopment of New Orleans
Tilde Siglev
Lichtenberg, Berlin: A Sketch from the Ground
Bram Esser
Photo Essay: Amman’s Forgotten Cinemas
René Boer
Urbicide in Nagorno-Karabakh
Owen Vince
Photo Essay: DORP
René Boer
The Partisan Necropolis: Mostar’s Empty Stare
Arna Mackic
and
Bogdan Bogdanović
Did Suburbia Fail?
René Boer
,
Michiel van Iersel
and
Mark Minkjan
The Modern Ruins of Ipswich’s Waterfront
Owen Vince
Nothing is Permanent: The Imaginative Power of Ruins
Mark Minkjan
Photo Essay: The Lost Views of Space City
Mark Minkjan
San Cataldo Cemetery: Graveyard of Postmodern Architecture
Charlie Clemoes
Filth: Capturing Concrete Ecologies
René Boer
Erasing the Remnants of a Revolution
René Boer
New York City’s Island of the Dead
Margaret McCormick
Guardian Property: Freedom at Another’s Expense
Charlie Clemoes
Photo Essay: Jing Jin City
Mark Minkjan
Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence
Mark Minkjan
The Port Authority Bus Terminal: Myth, Mystery, Mess
Margaret McCormick
Photo Essay: Ebola Curfew in Freetown
René Boer
and
Killian Doherty
Photo Essay: After Schengen
Mark Minkjan
Photo Essay: The Ferrier Estate
Mark Minkjan
Material Senescence
Mark Minkjan
and
Benjamin Busch
Tropical Babel
Celeste Olalquiaga
Photo Essay: Frameworks
Mark Minkjan
and
Sam Laughlin
The Ironic Loss of the Postmodern BEST Store Facades
Margaret McCormick
Spreepark: Berlin’s Sleeping Beauty
Jens Peter Kutz
A Year in the Metabolist Future of 1972
Ana Luisa Soares
and
Filipe Magalhães
Mortal Cities: The Irreversible Disappearance of Mostar
Arna Mackic
The Shame of Ljubljana: Plečnik’s Abandoned Stadium in Full Bloom
Barbara Prezelj
The Metamorphosis of Post-Genocide Kigali
Killian Doherty
Explore Everything: A Subversive Urban Critique
Mark Minkjan
The Sudden Death of Cambodia’s Homegrown Modernism
Alexander Doerr
Lelystad Zuid – Never So Bright
Mark Minkjan
Cairo New Towns – From Desert Cities to Deserted Cities
Daniel Zwangsleitner
Once a Colonial Hotel, Now an Inhabited Ruin
Emma Hall
Mortal Cities and Forgotten Monuments
Arna Mackic
Madness and Method at St. Elizabeths
Margaret McCormick
Capturing Transience: Urban Exploration Photography
Mark Minkjan
and
René Boer
Peaux-Meaux: The Postmodern in New Orleans
Antonio Pacheco
Photo Essay: Tallinn’s Abandoned Linnahall
Mark Minkjan
Resisting Reconstruction in Post-war Sarajevo
Patrick Sykes
Function Follows Form: How Berlin Turns Horror into Beauty
Imre van der Gaag
Ankara’s Iron Cage
Duygu Cihanger
The Value of a War-Scarred Ruin in Beirut
Daniel Springer
Porto’s Ruinous Circle
Francisco Moura Veiga
The New Monuments of Taksim Square or ‘Ruins in Reverse’
Eray Çaylı
Hotel Jugoslavija: Spatio-Temporal Mosaics of Memorabilia
Amani Maihoub
FA#10: Beyond Failure
Mark Minkjan
(Counter) Productive Dystopia
Mark Minkjan
The Rebuilding of a ‘Hornet’s Nest’ in Kaliningrad
Tim Verlaan
La Maison Tropicale: From Failure in Niamey to Masterpiece in NYC
Isabella Rossen
The Copycat Hype: Learning from a Saint Peter Replica
René Boer
The Poetry of Decay
Mark Minkjan
The Day Architects Stopped Reading Newspapers
Jan Loerakker
Kai van Hasselt Responds to Owen Hatherley
Failed Architecture
Failed Architecture #07: Ruin Porn
Tim Verlaan
Excavating the Future in Cardross, Scotland
Mark Minkjan
Failed Architecture #06: Concrete Failures
Mark Minkjan
Moscow’s Narkomfin Building
Michiel van Iersel
Reactions to UK Riots
Michiel van Iersel
Detroit Wild City: Reborn Center or Dying Heart?
Michiel van Iersel
The Nazis and the US May Be Gone But the Devil Remains
Mark Minkjan
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