We Need to Talk About Air Conditioning
Ken Yeang’s design for the Ganendra Art House is aggressively local, just not in the way you’d expect.
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Hygiene and the City
The modern metropolis: a heady cocktail of sex, technology and high finance, with an undertone of sewage.
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The Generic City
The Generic City is a city free of context, history and identity. It is a blank slate, allowing its inhabitants to make of themselves what they will.
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The New Romantic Hero
Drive through any Indian metropolis today and a strange sight might greet you as you look out your car window: spindly legs clad in…
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Train in Vain
Focusing on the needs of real cities, not world cities.
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Yes, Paris Is Beautiful, but…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Paris is the most beautiful city in the world, but should we all be trying to copy it?
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The Verandah Riots
And you thought you were passionate about architecture.
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Before There Was Hong Kong…
Hong Kong was really a creation of Quanzhou.
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A Watery Story
Are autocratic regimes necessary to push through the changes we need to save our planet?
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A Surprisingly Interesting History of Vast Empty Spaces
Sometimes less really is more.