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Brutalist buildings around the world are in danger of demolition due to attacks from right-wing politicians, according to architecture historians. Tim Verlaan, an assistant professor at the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History, said that an association between brutalism and left-leaning social policies has caused opposition to the architectural style from the right. “Today, criticism on

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Architecture schools must prioritise teaching students net-zero design skills to effectively prepare them for future work, says Anthropocene Architecture School founder Scott McAulay. Speaking to Dezeen, McAulay said that if the industry is to help alleviate climate change, emerging architects must be taught how to eliminate carbon emissions from the built environment, which is responsible

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The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center threw the safety of skyscrapers into the spotlight, but since then they have become taller and more ambitious. As part of our 9/11 anniversary series, we look at how skyscrapers design has changed over the past 20 years. Following the attack on the Twin Towers on 11

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The terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center helped the public understand the importance of architecture, says the architect who masterplanned the rebuilding at Ground Zero as part of our 9/11 anniversary series. Speaking to Dezeen in an exclusive interview, Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind said that “everything changed in architecture” after the tragedy. Prior to the

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