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Dreams and Ideologies – Architecture: Fashion and Folly

08/10/2019

With the RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture announced this evening, Kenn Taylor reflects on how the passage of time tends to weigh heavily on the popularity – or otherwise – of a building… I once...

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“It simply doesn’t live up to this esoteric promise.” In Character – Reviewed

05/06/2019

Ashley McGovern reviews In Character, an exhibition exploring architecture’s communicative powers… How did Studio MUTT arrive at their name? The first part is standard, they are a RIBA Chartered Practice after all, though...

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“I guess I’m just a bit of a geek. I just love listening to music.”
Interview: Dorothy

27/11/2018

Combining a love of music and graphic design, we spoke to Dorothy’s Jim Quail about his creative process, wordplay and “falling down holes of research”… Coming together in 2010 after stints in the...

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“It’s a luxury and a privilege…” Introducing: Rare Mags, Stockport

15/05/2018

Magazine fan Jacob Charles Wilson heads home to Stockport to check out a beautiful new shop for the printed word… It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Greater Manchester has a vibrant culture...

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The Geopolitics Of The Humble Christmas Pud & Other Highlights From Design & Empire [Working Title]

23/11/2017

We take a look at four artists converging this weekend for an ambitious Liverpool Biennial-led programme: people whose ideas jab and nudge at the power structures and politics left over from the former...

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“The design object should also be a piece of art”: Architecture Meets Ceramics At RIBA North

22/11/2017

Liam Peacock speaks to two of the designers testing the limits of pottery, porcelain and glass in RIBA North’s new exhibition Cerámica – and discovers how their cutting-edge production techniques could bring about a more sustainable future… RIBA North,...

C. H. R. Bailey, south perspective view. A New Cathedral, 1960, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, 2017. All images courtesy liverpoolcatholic.org.uk

“Anxiety as captured in concrete”: A New Cathedral, 1960 – Reviewed

25/10/2017

Ed Montana-Williams finds that the competition to design a new cathedral for Liverpool in 1960 received architectural ideas not of veneration, but of commemoration; referencing Cold War anxiety, rocket-like structures and concrete bunkers…...

Sarah Corbett signing copies of her new book on Unbound: ‘How To Be A Craftivist: the art of gentle protest’. Courtesy Corbett

You’re Invited! How To Be A Craftivist Liverpool Book Launch 10 Oct

05/10/2017

Feeling powerless? Interested in alternative forms of activism? Join us on the 10 October 2017 to discuss how Sarah Corbett of the Craftivist Collective is championing the art of gentle protest… If we want...

Intern Magazine 2017

“Being published in print is still a big deal”: Alec Dudson, Intern Magazine

13/04/2017

Alice Gray discusses a heap of contemporary issues — consumer trends, the value of young people’s skills, and ethical issues in publishing — with Intern Magazine Editor-in-Chief Alec Dudson… “We believe that young...