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Author Archives: Rowan Moore
The Interlace in Singapore by OMA/Ole Scheeren
Combining megastructural drama with intimate communal ambitions, Ole Scheeren and OMA’s Interlace housing has a scale and abruptness typical of Singapore’s urban milieu, but it also recasts and reframes it
Two decades of Herzog & de Meuron
Seen as unknowns when they were picked to design the Tate Modern in 1995, Herzog and de Meuron have today morphed into a ubiquitous global practice − yet their work continues to surprise with its subtle singularities
Josep Maria Jujol (1879-1949)
Protégé of Gaudi, to whose buildings Jujol’s are a refreshingly frothy riposte
Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992)
The Brazilian Modernist’s work is celebrated for its punchy, honest concern for social good
Luigi Moretti: From Rationalism to Informalism, Rome, Italy
Ambiguity was an essential characteristic of Moretti’s architecture
1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron, Miami, USA
Herzog & de Meuron hang loose in Miami and reinvent the car park as a sculptural, flexible entity. Photography by Roland Halbe
Claude Parent, Architectural Work, Graphic Work, Paris, France
There’s something dark and paradoxical about Parent’s view of the world
Museum Folkwang by David Chipperfield Architects, Essen, Germany
Art shines at David Chipperfield’s stripped and sober Museum Folkwang. Photography by Christian Richters
Vitrahaus by Herzog & De Meuron, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Herzog & De Meuron’s witty and whimsical take on the basic house shape. Photography by Roland Halbe
