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Ringbahn raw: Berlin’s Centre for Art and Urbanism revamped
Florian HeilmeyerPeter Grundmann Architektur has given the independent cultural institution, based in a former rail freight depot, an industrial makeover in which nothing is concealed, writes Florian Heilmeyer. Photography by Alisa Aal and Yizhi Wang
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Gravitational pull: Foster + Partners’ Bilbao Fine Arts Museum extension
Foster + Partners has extended the Spanish museum not by digging down but by creating a dramatic 55m bridge that sails over the original. Paul Finch is impressed by the synthesis of old and new
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