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12+ hour, 33+ min ago  (420+ words) There are buildings you remember, and buildings you don't. Not because of their scale or ambition, but because of something more difficult to define. A quality that lingers long after you've left. You find yourself returning to them in memory'not…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (35+ words) Architecture Today Representatives of RAI member organisations are invited to take part in Reinventing Practice, an ongoing series of portraits of RAI members accompanied by insights into their efforts to transition towards regenerative practice....

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (363+ words) Architecture Today JOTAJOTA+ reimagines a Madrid mattress store as a sequence of domestic interiors, using spatial choreography, material contrast and layered thresholds to reinvent the retail experience. JOTAJOTA+, led by Javier Onrubia and Jorge Gabald'n, has completed Curtidores 32 in Madrid,…...

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1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1071+ words) Architecture Today Still Standing: 15 Central Park West, New York, 2007 A near-verbatim recitation of the great New York apartments of yesteryear, Robert A. M. Stern's "Limestone Jesus' heralded a major architectural trend and delivered one of the most commercially successful condominium developments in…...

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1+ week, 6+ day ago  (315+ words) We think of our involvement as just one chapter in a building or place's history. There's a kind of humility in this, but it's also empowering " other people have made change here before, and others still will again in the…...