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Book review: The Drama of Space

Book review: The Drama of Space

Review | Megson’s lectures ran through the full historical range of approaches, from Palladio’s A-B-A rhythms to Le Corbusier’s Modulor proportion system to the Dutch monk Hans van der Laan’s mid-20th-century th...
Singing for supper

Singing for supper

Review | There were plenty of smaller projects: IS’s Mapua Park Structures, Cheshire’s Rore Kahu and Monk Mackenzie’s Canada Street Bridge, for example. They are rich in terms of site and the underlying elements...
Fo Guang Shan Pagoda

Fo Guang Shan Pagoda

Projects | The upper levels of the pagoda, where cremated remains will be kept, will be accessible only to the monks or nuns of the temple. The layout of this area is suitably austere, with exposed concrete and a ...
Flights of fancy

Flights of fancy

Review | / This expressive metal and wooden tornado-like staircase is located in Israel and crafted by Tomer Gelfand. A total of 9,000 meters in length of raw Poplar wood was cut in a CNC machine to create t...
Green commons

Green commons

Projects | Of course, monks must submit to a rule, but co-housers get to choose from a menu of voluntary activities and communal amenities. Toiora residents can sign up for gardening duty and one Toiora statistic,...
Southern retreat

Southern retreat

Projects | Designed to blend in with their surroundings, the buildings that will make up New Zealand’s first off the grid health retreat sit on remote ridges in the hills near Glenorchy. Overlooking the northwes...
Iberian Study Tour

Iberian Study Tour

Review | Its original outdoor courtyard has been given a roof to create a dramatic indoor space but, as you swim in the pool on an upper floor, you cannot help but wonder what the monks would think of Byrne’s ad...