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The Housing of Asylum Seekers in Former Military Barracks Must End

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يجب إنهاء سكن طالبي اللجوء في الثكنات العسكرية السابقة

The Empty Houses Helping Kozarac’s Diaspora Hold on to Their Hometown

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Ayn Rand’s Libertarian Utopia Provided the Blueprint for Billionaire Doomsday Prepping

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OMA Uses Brutalist Aesthetics to “Greywash” the Luxury High Rise

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Claiming Cinematic Space: Agnès Varda’s Pioneering Take on Women’s Urban Experience

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The City and The City and Coronavirus

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The Intentional Dilapidation of Historical Buildings Is Not Neglect, It’s a Subversive Act

The Virus Biennale: Shall We Call The Whole Thing Off?

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Watch It Die: The Managed Decline of Tainted Architecture

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A Decade of Failed Architecture

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“Degrowth is about redistribution by design, not by collapse”

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Maybe Modern Ruins Are Just the Kind of Failure We Need

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Stop Seeing Climate Change as an “Opportunity” for Architecture

Community Wealth Building: An Idea Afraid of its Own Radical Potential

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Beirut’s Architecture of Erasure Countered by Literary Placemaking

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London Becomes Museum

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Photo Essay: Windows in Crisis – The Decline of Athens’ Commercial Cityscape

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What If Architects Were to Embrace, Rather Than Ignore, a Building’s Future?

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How J.G. Ballard’s Science Fiction Tells the Future of Our Privatized Cities

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Pleasure Postponed: Pyongyang’s Tourist Hotels

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Social Life Triumphs in Sicily’s Empty Utopian Artscape

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Talking Clubbing, Space and London with Gaika

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Reinier de Graaf: “Architecture is in a State of Denial”

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An Abandoned Aquarium in the Lebanese City of Batroun Still Shows Signs of Life

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Hot Potato Heritage: Heidelberg’s Nazi Amphitheatre

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Aerial Imperialism: Syrian Ruinscapes and Vertical Media

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Wheatley-Provident Hospital: Kansas City’s Own Ruin

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A Journey to the Edge of Britain: Exploring the Thames Estuary

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Architecture After Excess: The Palaces of Saddam’s Baghdad

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Photo Essay: The Fading Glory of Brazil’s Disappearing Love Motels

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Photo Essay: Albania’s Concrete Skeletons

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Spaces of Otherness: Ruins Through a Feminist Lens

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Slum Porn: Urban Misery as Catchy Imagery

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The Forgotten Spaceships of the Po Valley

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Neoliberal Shock Therapy: the Post-Katrina Redevelopment of New Orleans

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Lichtenberg, Berlin: A Sketch from the Ground

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Photo Essay: Amman’s Forgotten Cinemas

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Urbicide in Nagorno-Karabakh

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Photo Essay: DORP

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The Partisan Necropolis: Mostar’s Empty Stare

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Did Suburbia Fail?

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The Modern Ruins of Ipswich’s Waterfront

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Nothing is Permanent: the Imaginative Power of Ruins

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Photo Essay: the Lost Views of Space City

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San Cataldo Cemetery: Graveyard of Postmodern Architecture

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Filth: Capturing Concrete Ecologies

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Erasing the Remnants of a Revolution

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New York City’s Island of the Dead

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Guardian Property: Freedom at Another’s Expense

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Photo Essay: Jing Jin City

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Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence

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The Port Authority Bus Terminal: Myth, Mystery, Mess

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Photo Essay: Ebola Curfew in Freetown

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Photo Essay: After Schengen

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Photo Essay: The Ferrier Estate

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Material Senescence

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Tropical Babel

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Photo Essay: Frameworks

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The Ironic Loss of the Postmodern BEST Store Facades

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Spreepark: Berlin’s Sleeping Beauty

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A Year in the Metabolist Future of 1972

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Mortal Cities: The Irreversible Disappearance of Mostar

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The Shame of Ljubljana: Plečnik’s Abandoned Stadium in Full Bloom

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The Metamorphosis of Post-Genocide Kigali

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Explore Everything: A Subversive Urban Critique

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The Sudden Death of Cambodia’s Homegrown Modernism

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Lelystad Zuid – Never So Bright

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Cairo New Towns – From Desert Cities to Deserted Cities

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Once a Colonial Hotel, Now an Inhabited Ruin

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Mortal Cities and Forgotten Monuments

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Madness and Method at St. Elizabeths

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Capturing Transience: Urban Exploration Photography

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Peaux-Meaux: the Postmodern in New Orleans

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Photo Essay: Tallinn’s Abandoned Linnahall

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Resisting Reconstruction in Post-war Sarajevo

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Function Follows Form: How Berlin Turns Horror Into Beauty

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Ankara’s Iron Cage

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The Value of a War-Scarred Ruin in Beirut

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Porto’s Ruinous Circle

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The New Monuments of Taksim Square or ‘Ruins in Reverse’

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Hotel Jugoslavija: Spatio-Temporal Mosaics of Memorabilia

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FA#10: Beyond Failure

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The Rebuilding of a ‘Hornet’s Nest’ in Kaliningrad

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La Maison Tropicale: From Failure in Niamey to Masterpiece in NYC

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The Copycat Hype: Learning from a Saint Peter Replica

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The Poetry of Decay

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The Day Architects Stopped Reading Newspapers

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Kai van Hasselt Responds to Owen Hatherley

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Failed Architecture #07: Ruin Porn

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Excavating the Future in Cardross, Scotland

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Failed Architecture #06: Concrete Failures

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Moscow’s Narkomfin Building

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Reactions to UK Riots

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Detroit Wild City: Reborn Center or Dying Heart?

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The Nazis and the US may be Gone but the Devil Remains

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