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‘Brendeland & Kristoffersen proved that a low‑cost, high‑density method for building housing is possible,’ writes Feliks Ulvåen Isaksen, revisiting Nyhuset by Brendeland & Kristoffersen Arkitekter who were shortlisted for AR Emerging in 2005. Read the full revisit in the Emerging issue:
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Revisit: Nyhuset in Trondheim, Norway by Brendeland & Kristoffersen
The lessons of Brendeland & Kristoffersen’s Nhyuset in Trondheim, shortlisted for AR Emerging in 2005, have fallen on deaf ears
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 05/10/2026
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AR October 2026: AR Emerging
The journey of an emerging architect is a slow and steady ascent.
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 05/10/2026
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AR Emerging: The Architectural Review 1535, October 2026
The journey of an emerging architect is a slow and steady ascent. The October issue features the work of architects recognised in previous editions of the AR Emerging awards, revisiting a radical housing project by Brendeland & Kristoffersen, and new and ongoing work by Anna Heringer and Kashef Chowdhury. This issu
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 05/10/2026
The October issue revisits radical housing project by Brendeland & Kristoffersen Arkitekter, and new and ongoing work by Studio Anna Heringer and Kashef Chowdhury, with writing by Manon Mollard, Maik Novotny and Feliks Ulvåen Isaksen.
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 05/10/2026
📣 The AR Emerging issue is here, celebrating the 10 practices shortlisted for the AR Emerging awards 2026 🎉 The work of the latest cohort to join the Emerging alumni includes experiments in rammed earth, rural projects learning from local building types and urgently needed third places.
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 02/10/2026
Lifting the lid on the United States issue on 10 October. Join us at Citygroup in New York City where the editors will lift the lid on how the issue was made before turning New York’s architecture critics on the criticism. Spaces are limited – RSVP here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-archit...
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 01/10/2026
‘For decades across the United States, flood‑prone homes have been bought up and demolished,’ writes Noah Gotlib in the closing essay of the US issue, on the communities retreating from flooded lands across the country. Read the full essay in the US issues:
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Drowning world
Communities are retreating from flooded lands across the US, leaving abandoned landscapes in their wake,
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 28/09/2026
‘The project has transformed the site from the epicentre of ruin to a destination of respite,’ Page Comeaux on the Bastion wellness centre and housing in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States by OJT. Read the full AR exclusive with more unseen images in the United States issue:
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Room for recovery: Bastion wellness centre and housing in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States by OJT
Housing and a wellness centre for a veterans’ non‑profit in New Orleans, designed by OJT, provide a place to heal
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 25/09/2026
AR Reading list 092: who built the ‘American dream’? www.architectural-review.com/archive/read... Curated from the AR archive, these seven free-to-read essays question who has been free to make a home in the US, and what courage it took for those who were not. Register today and read for free:
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 23/09/2026
‘Softwood framing was a kind of democratisation of architecture,’ writes Paul Preissner of the building method now ubiquitous in the US Read the full essay in the US issue:
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Softwood frame of mind
Ubiquitous since the 19th‑century westward colonisation of the US, softwood framing allows an architecture of error
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 22/09/2026
‘Like Los Angeles, it is sprawling and polycentric, informal but cosmopolitan, with a genuine openness to discovery,’ writes Christopher Hawthorne on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California, by Atelier Peter Zumthor. Read the full building study in the September issue:
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Split verdict: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California, United States by Atelier Peter Zumthor
Peter Zumthor’s bold vision for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art challenges museographic conventions but has divided the critics
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 18/09/2026
‘This is a moment of ethical reckoning for a field that has long partnered with law enforcement and the carceral system to design prisons and spaces of detention,’ writes Anjulie Rao in this issue’s Outrage. Read the full essay in the United States issue:
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Outrage: Refusing the architecture of ICE
With ICE detention centres proliferating, architects must reorient away from systems of incarceration
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 18/09/2026
Look beyond the familiar names: subscribe before 23:59 BST on Sunday 20 September and receive the October issue subscribe.architectural-review.com/SUBS4SUN/
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 18/09/2026
Subscribe before Sunday to receive the AR Emerging issue. The October issue revisits the work of finalists recognised in historical editions of the AR emerging awards. It also includes the work of 10 early career architecture practices from around the world.
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 17/09/2026
All Wabanaki Cultural Knowledge and Intellectual Property shared within this project is owned by the Wabanaki Nations.
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 17/09/2026
‘The successful completion of such a beautiful space demonstrates the value of rooting an architectural commission in process rather than product,’ writes Emily Conklin on the Tekαkαpimək Contact Station in Maine, designed by Saunders Architecture and Reed Hilderbrand Read the full building study:
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As far as one can see: Tekαkαpimək Contact Station in Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, Maine, United States by Saunders Architecture and Reed Hilderbrand
At Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine, Saunders Architecture and Reed Hilderbrand explore the intertwined histories of the Wabanaki people and their land
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 15/09/2026
‘Access to Puerto Rico’s beaches has become increasingly restricted, altering the way people experience a place that has long been central to the island’s identity,’ writes Coral Murphy Marcos on the accelerating privatisation of the archipelago’s most fundamental public space. Read the full essay:
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The right to the beach
In Puerto Rico, luxury developments and US tax incentives are restricting access to the archipelago’s most fundamental public space
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 11/09/2026
‘Public works are less solutions than receptacles for possibility: frameworks whose meaning and usefulness are continually shaped by the people who inhabit them,’ writes Ana Karina Zatarain on the Emma S Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin, Texas. Read the full building study:
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Arc of resistance: Emma S Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin, Texas, United States by Miró Rivera Architects and Tatiana Bilbao Estudio
The extension of the Emma S Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center gives Austin’s Latinx community a place to build from
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 09/09/2026
‘Her role as an art teacher and architect enabled her to actively promote the possibilities for better living for African Americans,’ writes Jacqueline Taylor in this issue’s Reputations piece on Amaza lee Meredith. Read more about Amaza Lee Meredith’s life and work:
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Amaza Lee Meredith (1895–1984)
Amaza Lee Meredith; architect, artist and educator spent a lifetime making room for Black communities to flourish
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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
First in, last out. I’ve been writing about the @obamafoundation.bsky.social Presidential Center for almost a decade, and my @social.architectural-review.com is the last to join the critical pile-on taking aim at a building that perfectly represents the ego and cynicism of the 44th president.
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 07/09/2026
‘The campus is a reflection of Obama’s presidency: possessed by the urge to retreat into aphorisms of hope and change,’ writes Zach Mortice on the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects Read the full building study featuring exclusive images:
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Presidential privilege: Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Illinois, United States by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects is a reflection of the compromised politics of the 44th president
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 04/09/2026
‘The dichotomies between manmade and natural, horizontal and vertical, inside and outside that make Fallingwater unique are preserved,’ writes Catherine W Zipf in a Revisit of Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright in Pennsylvania. Read the full Revisit in the United States issue:
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Revisit: Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright in Bear Run Nature Reserve Pennsylvania, United States
The recent restoration of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in the forests of south‑western Pennsylvania is the latest in a lifetime of repair
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 03/09/2026
In the United States issue Keynote, Daniel Jonas Roche explores how the transformation of the White House and its surroundings in Washington DC is a mirror to the desperate death throes of the United States’ 250‑year‑old imperial project. Read the full Keynote in the United States issue:
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Trumped up
The transformation of the White House and its surroundings in Washington DC is a mirror to the desperate death throes of the United States’ 250‑year‑old imperial project
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 02/09/2026
The issue features projects by Peter Zumthor, Frank Lloyd Wright, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, Amaza Lee Meredith, Saunders Architecture, Reed Hilderbrand, and more.Writing by Daniel Jonas Roche, Ana Karina Zatarain, Christopher Hawthorne, Jacqueline Taylor, Catherine W Zipf and more!
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 02/09/2026
Architects design detention facilities for a state at war with immigrants, while US colonial control over Puerto Rico accelerates its coastal development. The issue revisits Fallingwater projects that offer glimmers of light. 2/
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 02/09/2026
On the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, the founding principles it set out feel like a distant dream in today’s diminished democracy. The transformation of the White House and the Obama Presidential Center reveal how architecture reflects and exerts presidential authority. 1/
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 02/09/2026
The United States issue is here! 🗽 Read the full editorial and pick up your copy from the AR’s online store. www.architectural-review.com/essays/lette...
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 29/08/2026
One last weekend of unlimited reading at The Architectural Review. Register for free before Monday 31 August and dive in. www.architectural-review.com/altregister
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 25/08/2026
The Architectural Review’s paywall is still down. Register for free and read as many articles as you like until Monday 31 August. www.architectural-review.com/altregister
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 22/08/2026
The AR’s paywall is down until 31 August, so you can register for free and access an unlimited number of articles on our website. Happy reading! www.architectural-review.com/altregister
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 18/08/2026
AR Reading list 091: water in the city Few building types reveal as much about a society as the places it chooses to submerge itself in. Curated from the AR archive, these five free-to-read stories explore the role of water in cities across five decades.
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Reading list 091: water in the city
These five free-to-read stories explore the role of water in cities across five decades
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 17/08/2026
Hear from the AR’s deputy editor Eleanor Beaumont speaking on 'an editorial practice in times of crisis' at the 2026 Kosovo Architecture Festival. www.architectural-review.com/films/an-edi...
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 14/08/2026
Subscribe before 23:59 BST on Sunday 16 August to receive the AR United States issue. Students receive 40% off. subscribe.architectural-review.com/SUBS4SUN/ The September issue of The Architectural Review turns its attention to the United States. 📸 Christopher Payne / Esto
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 12/08/2026
’In the urbanism of sophisticated AI chips, humans have been revealed as an impurity in the system that must be successfully contained,’ writes Hans Larsson in the closing essay of the Industry issue Read the full essay: www.architectural-review.com/essays/the-a...
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The architecture of AI
The AI boom is driving the construction of new industrial landscapes where chips are the true inhabitants and humans are unwelcome guests
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 11/08/2026
‘For him, superficiality, thoughtlessness and lack of substance are the worst of design crimes,’ writes Sophie Lovell in this issue’s Reputations, on industrial designer Dieter Rams. Read the full Reputations piece in the Industry issue:
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Dieter Rams (1932-)
Dieter Ram's principles to design thoughtfully, responsibly and intelligently apply to appliances, furniture pieces and entire buildings
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 10/08/2026
‘It is a living building, and not just because of the living things inside,’ writes Francesco Perrotta‑Bosch of a factory near Rio de Janeiro designed around the life cycle of black soldier fly larvae, by Gru.a Arquitetos. Read the full building study in the Industry issue:
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In the larval phase: fly protein factory in Cachoeira de Macacu, Brazil by Gru.a Arquitetos
A factory near Rio de Janeiro is designed by Gru.a Arquitetos around the life cycle of black soldier fly larvae
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 05/08/2026
‘The building is an Albert Kahn hangar wrapped in the skin of a Romanesque church,’ writes Michael Snyder on the tequila factory in Jalisco, Mexico, designed by Estudio Macías Peredo and Atelier ARS. Read the full building study in the Industry issue:
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Industrial spirit: tequila factory in Jalisco, Mexico by Estudio Macías Peredo and Atelier ARS
In Jalisco, Atelier ARS and Estudio Macías Peredo root tequila production in the landscape
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 04/08/2026
Welcome to the AR’s Substack!
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Welcome to the AR’s Substack!
Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires.
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 03/08/2026
‘Extractivism is a continuum that spans from slavery and colonialism to fossil fuel exploitation,’ writes Imani Jacqueline Brown in this issue’s Outrage. Read the full essay in the July/August issue:
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Outrage: continuum of extractivism in Cancer Alley
Building petrochemical facilities on former plantation sites exemplifies extractivism’s continuum
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 01/08/2026
Pick up your copy of the Industry issue 🏭 currently on newsstands and available to order from the AR online shop, and pictured here in Café Vins in Soho, London! In the comments below, pick up your copy from the AR’s online store. shop.architectural-review.com/products/ind...
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 31/07/2026
‘Psychological considerations influenced the choice of site and the orientation of every part of the building,’ writes Philip Morton Shand in a piece from AR September 1933. The sanatorium is part of the Aalto Works, now inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Read the full building study:
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Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Paimio, Finland by Alvar Aalto
Philip Morton Shand doubted Paimio Sanatorium would be ‘the most revolutionary hospital building erected within the last decade’; almost a century later, it remains unrivalled
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 29/07/2026
‘Thread’s interventions might be read as part of a broader project to reframe the narrative surrounding this post‑industrial landscape,’ writes @laxmiandrews.bsky.social , on the adaptation and restoration Boston Lodge Works in Gwynedd, UK. Read the full building study in the Industry issue:
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Back on track: Boston Lodge Works in Gwynedd, UK by Thread
Following the listing of North Wales’ slate landscapes, the Boston Lodge Works rail engineering site has been adapted by Thread to welcome visitors
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 28/07/2026
Zhemchug, revisited by Oliver Wainwright in the AR’s Universal housing issue, has been inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List, alongside nine other modernist buildings and urban complexes in Tashkent. Read the revisit, free for registered users: www.architectural-review.com/essays/revis...
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 27/07/2026
‘Factories became more than utilitarian structures: they were sites where workers enacted revolutionary beliefs,’ writes Shirley Surya on the history of China’s Third Front Construction. Read the full essay in the Industry issue:
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How to hide a factory
Built under the threat of war, China’s Third Front Construction recast the country’s mountainous interior as a landscape of industrial production
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Swimming Pool, Wembley, by Sir Owen Williams, from The Architectural Review, 1936.
A colossal brutalist deco building with enormous vertical concrete sails along its front.
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 23/07/2026
‘The decline of Milan’s industrial economy triggered a broader decline in culture, architecture and urban development,’ writes Mariana Siracusa in a city portrait, on the influence of financial capital on the decline of industry in Milan. Read the full piece in the Industry issue:
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From Pirelli to property in Bicocca
The uneven urban legacy of Pirelli’s old industrial district speaks of Milan’s shift towards financial capitalism
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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 18/05/2026
Some art, design, and architecture magazines care about their art direction, and it shows.
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Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · 10/06/2026
Editorial in @social.architectural-review.com - “increasingly, public space is a backdrop for what is happening online“ - very relevant to the fascistic discourse and violence we are seeing in the public realm, fomented and then recycled online www.architectural-review.com/essays/lette...
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AR June 2026: AR Public
This issue celebrates public spaces around the world recognised in the third edition of the AR Public awards.
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| Andrea Pasquato | @andpas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Paris, partial demolition, renovation, and conversion of a car park into a social housing complex with 80 units. 👇👀 (ph. by NZI architectes) www.nzi.fr/transformati...
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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 21/11/2025
The Architectural Review, Special Number - Plants Indoors, May 1952. Designed by Frederick Henri Kay Henrion with inner drawings by Gordon Cullen. designreviewed.com/artefacts/th... #fhkhenrion #britishdesign #henrion
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