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21 Best Architecture Firms in London

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London is a city that has been forced to redevelop constantly. Like many cities, it has accrued layers of history. Nowawada, Georgian, Regency and Victorian architecture are intermingled with hulking Brutalist structures and curving glass façades. The number of A+Awards finalists (2013 to 2022).

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"The very idea of deconstructivism now seems hopelessly implausible"

Deezen

Such a genuinely incandescent incarnation was in soul-shrivelling contrast to decon's quiet, lonely death on a hillside outside Santiago de Compostela in 2013, when the municipality finally pulled the plug on Eisenman's City of Culture of Galicia, barely half-finished and four times over budget. Decon also relished being "subversive".

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Rereading the Nineties

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

In my decade working as an architect in Chicago, from 1997, after graduating from architecture school, to 2006, when I left for grad school in New York City, I made many, many — many — trips to Prairie Avenue Bookshop, spending too much money there but always feeling when I walked out the door that I could have easily spent much, much more.

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Chile Architecture News: Buildings Designs

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In order to establish the railway station in the mid-twentieth century, it was necessary to create a wide esplanade for the railway yard, a marked embankment stretching towards the city and important landfills on the lowlands of the River Sar. The members of the group are recent graduates from theater, art and architecture schools.