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How the London Playboy Club bankrolled Hef’s empire

Playboy, that great icon of American pop culture, owed its existence for many years to gambling revenue from Blighty

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‘Architecture is now a tool of capital, complicit in a purpose antithetical...

As large housing estates are being demolished and the age of great social democracies recedes, taking with it any notion of an architecture for the public, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf asks if there is...

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IM Pei’s unbuilt 1948 Shanghai Museum

IM Pei’s first project, a Museum for Chinese Art published in 1948, explored themes of Chineseness he returned to 60 years later with his Suzhou Museum, but was misunderstood by Western critics

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'Latin America was a place where Modernist dreams came true'

Just what is it that makes South American architecture so appealing?

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