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WAF podcast: How I masterplanned Singapore
In the second of three podcasts recorded at last year’s World Architecture Festival, Singapore’s masterplanner reflects on the city’s urbanisation story
Culture
Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
WAF podcast: Can we make Singapore cooler, calmer and cleaner?
The first of three discussions recorded at last year’s World Architecture Festival asks whether the detrimental effects of Singapore’s development can be reversed
Book review: Are we seeing a new epoch of urban design?
The use of digital fabrication technology to foster people-centred, bottom-up development is championed in Recoded City: Co-creating Urban Futures, writes Alan Gordon
‘We changed public attitudes about the city’: Phyllis Lambert on Jane Jacobs
On the occasion of Jane Jacobs’ 100th birthday, we republish Phyllis Lambert’s account of how they each forged their own career paths in architecture
Smithsons’ Obelisk sculpture finds new home at Somerset farm
Organisation Drawing Matter has installed Alison and Peter Smithson’s Obelisk at Niall Hobhouse’s Shatwell Farm in Somerset
Review: Pablo Bronstein at Tate Britain
Can this performance piece - with its odd mash-up of styles and trompe l’oeil walls - live up to the grandeur of its setting? asks Rupert Bickersteth
Book review: Nanotecture
A pocket-sized dictionary exploring architecture’s latest portmanteau features cat houses, bus stops and eggs, finds Rupert Bickersteth
RA debate: What is Britain’s greatest maverick building?
Lloyd’s, Trellick Tower… Stonehenge? On 18 April an RA debate will decide what building should be declared the UK’s most unorthodox
Can Georgian architecture regenerate Sheerness?
Conservationist Will Palin’s ongoing efforts in the deprived coastal town are somewhere between visionary and insane, finds Flora Neville
Wales hopes for a design lesson from Austria
An exhibition on the innovative architecture of Vorarlberg comes to Cardiff with the hope of inspiring a similar home-grown approach