Articles by Cajsa Carlson

The architecture profession needs to face up to the fact that it is dominated by those that went to private schools, according to Open City director Phineas Harper. “[W]e *need* to start talking about the impact of private schools on architecture,” the Open City director and former Architecture Foundation deputy editor wrote in a thread

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The Brazilian government is planning to install anti-drone antennas on the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Planalto, Alvorada and Jaburu palaces in Brásilia, which would disrupt the clean form of the modernist buildings. Brazil’s Institutional Security Office (GSI) is planning to place a 1.5-metre antenna on top of the Planalto Palace and five-metre antennas on the Alvorado and

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Architects and designers in Beirut have shared their first-hand accounts of the huge explosion that destroyed a large part of the city on Tuesday, with one describing the devastation as “beyond an apocalypse”. “I thought it was a tsunami or a bomb, or even a nuclear blast,” said architect Lina Ghotmeh, who witnessed the massive

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Architects and designers in Beirut have shared their first-hand accounts of the huge explosion that destroyed a large part of the city on Tuesday, with one describing the devastation as “beyond an apocalypse”. “I thought it was a tsunami or a bomb, or even a nuclear blast,” said architect Lina Ghotmeh, who witnessed the massive

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