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Thursday, April 16, 2015

Archive »Architecture

	A Gift to Toronto The Aga Khan Museum and Ismaili Centre hold out hope for an unlikely and uninteresting neighborhood. Christopher Hume
	Place for Protest Paris’s historic center for dissent, Place de la République, gets an expansion and an update. Veronique Vienne
	Paper-Thin Walls AECOM specially engineers fiberglass to achieve Smiljan Radić’s vision for the Serpentine Pavilion. Shannon Sharpe
	Preserving the Peace With the help of local craftspeople, Sharon Davis designs a rural retreat in the Hudson Valley that privileges nature. Claire Barliant
	New Naturalism Triptyque defies the conventions of Brazilian Modernism and São Paulo’s urbanism in the new Groenlândia gallery. Samuel Medina
	Historical Revival A historic site in Hong Kong that once housed its married police officers finds new life as a cultural hub and incubator for young designers. Catherine Shaw
	Redefining the Island Aesthetic With architect Todd Saunders and designers Ineke Hans and Ilse Crawford as its advocates, the remote Fogo Island in Newfoundland, Canada, is forging a fresh identity to ensure its cultural and economic survival. Mikki Brammer
	All Local Lumber Behnisch Architekten inserts a sustainable wooden conference hall into Geneva’s maze of glass buildings, and breaks new ground for modern timber construction. Clare Dowdy