Olly Wainwright
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Olly Wainwright
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- A reminder that the affordable housing residents of this development, whose windows look straight on to the pool, are not allowed to access itSwimmers enjoy warm weather in London at the Sky Pool which is believed to be the world’s first transparent pool built between two skyscrapers bbc.in/3fUKLp4
00:00 - Bullshitometer is off the scale at this year’s Venice Biennale
- Wow Oslo’s new public library is insane- cinema, recording studio, sewing machines, laser cutters, 3D-printers, pianos (and 450,000 books) all to use for free and open 8am-10pm. AND there’s a bar 👑
- France gave New York the Statue of Liberty. Why doesn't it return the favour?
- "Demolition is a waste of energy, a waste of material, and a waste of history. For us, it is an act of violence.” The brilliant Lacaton & Vassal scoop this year's Pritzker Prize 🎉
- Star-spangled windows inside the new US Embassy in Nine Elms
- A good time to bury bad news – OMA unveils its new department store in South Korea, modelled on a prolapsed intestine oma.eu/projects/hanwh…
- The really shocking thing about Heatherwick’s $200m Vessel is quite how badly it’s made
- The legendary Margaret Calvert, designer of Britain’s road signs, sporting an appropriate bag today
- Why Thomas Heatherwick’s misguided ramblings are too dangerous to ignore
- 10 Hudson Yards vs Atlanta’s Big Chicken. Who did it better?
- And we wonder why people don't read architecture exhibition catalogues 🤔
