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Ideas that crossed the world: the rise and rise of gmp 

By the end of 2008 it is predicted that for the first time ever the majority of the world's pepulation will be living incities. The urban...

Off the radar: more Stealth Bomber than house, this new dwelling is a challenge to convention 

Honi soit qui mal y pense--when the authorities demanded a traditional German gable roof for a new family home in the leafy suburbs of Frankfurt,...

Rigour meisters: Baumschlager-Eberle prove masters of alpine rigour at Munich's Pinakothek 

Vorarlberg is an Austrian alpine province bordering onto Switzerland and it was here during the late '80s that Baumschlager-Eberle first came to...

Rigour meisters: Baumschlager-Eberle prove masters of alpine rigour at Munich's Pinakothek.(reviews) 

Oswald Mathias Ungers 1926-2007 

It was Rem Koolhaas who gave a speech in honour of Oswald Mathias Ungers at the Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie in 2006 on the occasion of his 80th...

Number nine dream 

Cecil Balmond's show at Louisiana reveals the inventive engineering power behind the throne of starchitecture. Cecil Balmond's show at Louisiana...

The mirrorball cracked: this standard spec office block on a Seoul business park is transformed by a shimmering, prismatic, mirror-glass skin 

Business parks the world over have many things in common, notably banality. In most cases, the architectural results of this form of commercial...

Change of gear: the evolution of motoring is vividly brought to life in this new museum for car giant Mercedes 

Just as the sequential photographs by Eadweard Muybridge heralded a shift of perception, enabling the observer to comprehend moving objects, so UN...

Sino German relations: Germany's largest practice is making its mark on China's changing landscape 

It all began inauspiciously enough in 1998, with the design of the German School and an attached apartment house in Beijing. Seven years later...

Anglo German alliance: A new show of Sauerbruch Hutton's oeuvre has opened in Munich 

Sauerbruch Hutton, perhaps the most successful contemporary Anglo/German architectural partnership, is currently staging an extraordinary...