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We Need to Talk About Air Conditioning
The City
May 29, 2019

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.

Hygiene and the City
The City
May 25, 2017

Hygiene and the City

The modern metropolis: a heady cocktail of sex, technology and high finance, with an undertone of sewage.

The Generic City
The City
May 25, 2017

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.

The New Romantic Hero
The City
September 10, 2016

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…

Train in Vain
The City
May 10, 2016

Train in Vain

Focusing on the needs of real cities, not world cities.

Yes, Paris Is Beautiful, but…
The City
March 19, 2016

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?

The Verandah Riots
The City
December 16, 2015

The Verandah Riots

And you thought you were passionate about architecture.

Before There Was Hong Kong…
The City
November 8, 2015

Before There Was Hong Kong…

Hong Kong was really a creation of Quanzhou.

A Watery Story
The City
October 24, 2015

A Watery Story

Are autocratic regimes necessary to push through the changes we need to save our planet?

A Surprisingly Interesting History of Vast Empty Spaces
The City
September 23, 2015

A Surprisingly Interesting History of Vast Empty Spaces

Sometimes less really is more.

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