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Architecture
Modern architecture should embrace – not ignore or repel – the nonhuman world
8 minutes
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Thinkers and theories
Jeremy Bentham was consumed by creating a perfect prison. Here’s the result
4 minutes
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Architecture
The radically impractical 18th-century architect whose ideas on beauty endure
19 minutes
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Cities
Inside the unique London community built by residents to defy housing discrimination
21 minutes
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Architecture
Why a sculptor pivoted from gallery installations to big-box stores design
9 minutes
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Architecture
How the Dorze in Ethiopia make ‘beehive’ houses from bamboo that last a lifetime
35 minutes
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Architecture
Being in a building
One of the great buildings of the Renaissance reminds us that buildings are made to be explored, smelled and even tasted
David Karmon
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Architecture
Heritage at sea
Must we simply accept the loss of beloved buildings and cities to the floods and rising seas of the climate crisis?
Thijs Weststeijn
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Architecture
Acoustic naturalism
Our movies and offices are engineered to sound natural based on what rang false in the theatres of 18th-century Paris
Joseph L Clarke
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Architecture
A whirlwind tour of Hong Kong’s high-rises is an awesome meditation on urbanity
9 minutes
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Architecture
Cultural wisdom begets cozy temporary homes for the Nenets of the Siberian Arctic
32 minutes
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Architecture
A world of shacks and shanties is a place of makeshift beauty on England’s margins
12 minutes
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Architecture
Surreal, audacious, unfinished – the Sagrada Família remains a divine work in progress
6 minutes
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Cities
The city is a lie
From Ancient Egypt’s deltas to Edinburgh’s crags and peaks, the city pushes back against the dream of human separateness
Sam Grinsell
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Cities
How the Barbican brought back living into the working heart of London
22 minutes
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Architecture
The best home is a joyfully inhabited one – doubly so if its residents are design legends
11 minutes
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Future of technology
Ceramic coral reefs and sawdust houses – the architects 3D-printing the future from scratch
4 minutes
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Work
‘Quite a height, ah?’ A tour of the Chrysler Building by those building it
6 minutes
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Cities
City on mute
When you stare at your phone or use Uber to navigate your neighbourhood, you flatten the rich texture of urban life
Kathleen Vandenberg
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Animals and humans
Prison, spectacle, refuge
Modern zoos are proud of their contribution to animal conservation but will always be haunted by their histories
Nigel T Rothfels
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Knowledge
A bibliophile’s paradise: the National Library of France in a classic documentary from 1956
21 minutes
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Design and fashion
The universal design ideal
At every turn, the design of our environments either creates barriers or opens doors. Let’s design a more humane world
Anna Leahy
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Astronomy
How an unplanned picture from Apollo 8 altered humanity’s perspective of Earth
30 minutes
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Film and visual culture
Other worlds pop in and out of view when the perspective shifts by degrees
4 minutes