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Intertwined Eternities by Form4 Architecture

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Intertwined Eternities occupies the drought-tolerant gardens of the Episcopal Church of St John the Baptist whose board approved the columbarium design that responds to the distinct timber architecture of the church by Californian architect Warren Callister and completed in 2009. The architecture describes both stillness and movement.

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"Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites"

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You can see the results of this numbers game, played all around the world in the mid-20th century, in the dun brick towers of the New York City Housing Authority or the prefabricated blocks of suburban Warsaw or Prague. Barber's architecture is, to quote John Peel on the music of The Fall, "always the same, always different".

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“Conundrum of architecture”

Architecture Here and There

When Bishop Berkeley arrived in Narragansett Bay in 1729 I suspect it was his fellow immigrant, the Scottish artist and occasional architect John Smibert, who designed a new neoclassical doorcase for his plain, if comfortable, farmhouse, Whitehall. He speaks, in effect, for most of the masses. Spot on, Mr Pedersen.