Latest articles by Ellen Himelfarb
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Radical planning: Abiboo shakes up a traditional family house in Madrid
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A tour of design duo Yabu Pushelberg's home and some of their recent projects
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Shanghai Tang Mansion, Hong Kong
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Take a peak: Karawitz’s Maison Marly is a pitch-perfect urban palace
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Amsterdam’s progressive architecture scene sees the rise of HQs, hotels and new neighbourhoods
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'Hide and Seek' by Malika Favre at Kemistry Gallery, London
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Schiaparelli reopens its doors in Paris
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Born in the USSR: a new show at Gallery Elena Shchukina explores contemporary Russian design
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The Haas brothers' bestial new furniture launches at Design Miami/ Basel
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OMA and BIG join forces for the launch of 79&Park and Norra Tornen in Stockholm
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Dover Street Market Ginza, Tokyo
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Eye candy: Jaime Hayon gives Caesarstone’s engineered quartz a new spin
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Motorways and urban paths are on the fast-track to green innovation
So much 21st-century landscape architecture is designed to compensate for 20th-century sins, it might as well be an industry slogan. Some of the worst offenders? Urban motorways. The pivot to cars in the last midcentury prioritised four-wheeled transport over the two-legged kind. Whizzing motorists through town alienated people from the centre, cutting off communities from their neighbours and often from the city’s raison d’etre: its water source. Among the lessons we learned was that burying blacktop would be costly, time-sucking and dangerous (say hello to Boston’s US$24 billion Big Dig). Today’s practice of adapting, removing and ‘greening’ ill-conceived urban motorways is practically a genre in itself. Even neighbourhoods barely affected by vehicular traffic are having a go at this trend for injecting green pathways into urban districts – the new Tide elevated park in North Greenwich, London, resembles a repurposed overpass where there was none. As New York’s super popular High Line did for redeveloped elevated railway lines, these projects have done for their cause, using any means their governments will allow...
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Rick Owens: New Work, London
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Prada’s latest retail tribute to artist Carlos Cruz-Diez
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Phoenix TV building by BIAD-UFO, Beijing
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The new mall: 21st century iterations of retail architecture
As Hudson Yards launches its shops and restaurants complex, we explore how architecture and design are shaping global retail experiences, and how the ‘mall’ has taken on a whole new identity
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Bold architects are transforming Nice into a world leading city
Nice, in the south of France, is welcoming a slow and steady influx of contemporary, environmentally friendly architecture by local and international studios that is set to boost the city's housing and infrastructure offering
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Elmgreen & Dragset's retrospective at the National Gallery of Denmark explores loneliness and solitude in contemporary culture
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Opera house: Carmody Groarke create an aria in timber for Glyndebourne's summer seasons
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Baranowitz Goldberg and Pitsou Kedem design Jaffa penthouse for Aby Rosen
We visit a Tel Aviv penthouse apartment by prolific developer Aby Rosen at the Jaffa hotel, a residence designed by Baranowitz Goldberg and Pitsou Kedem
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’Cut ’n’ Paste’: MoMA explores the art of collage
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Local colour: a new Cape Town gallery gives homegrown African design a boost
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Blossom Hill — Hangzhou, China
