Holl picks holes in masonary tradition

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Architect Steven Holl is the person who designed the Simmons Hall dormitory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The dormitory's massing resembles two Pac-Man figures set head to head and its cut-out shape relieves the 116m length of the structure, that allows it to have a series of open terraces and creates inserts for its major public sections.

Design and construction, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Holl, Steven

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An old boxer's face, ravished by time and experience, holds another kind of raw, honest beauty

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Tony Fretton's architecture explores ordinary technologies and everyday materials, and he is beginning to win international projects, such as an embassy in Warsaw and housing in the Netherlands. A detailed discussion of an artists' house and studios in Clerkenwell designed by Fretton is presented.

Netherlands, Architecture, Domestic, Home design, Fretton, Tony

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Winter wonderland

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John Winter, an architect who has gained an obsession with steel and the nature of structure has designed a house in Hampshire. The house recalls the ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright - the basic human need for both the safety of the cave and the need to view the horizon - and it really works here.

Winter, John

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