The Architectural Review (July 2010)

The latest issue of The architectural review is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

VIEW

• All the world's a stage: countries show off at the Shanghai Expo, keen to catch China's eye
• Berlin's Topography of Terror pristinely presents its Nazi history
• David Chipperfield curates the architecture room of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition
• Summer fling: Carmody Groarke's pop-up restaurant in east London
• Jean Nouvel's newest addition to the New York cityscape is a kaleidoscopic apartment block
• Europe isn't about Brussels and bureaucrats - it's about shared ideals, institutions and architecture
• Remembering Dennis Sharp, architectural critic par excellence

BUILDINGS

• Map
• Zaha Hadid Architects MAXXI, Rome, Italy
• Tony Fretton Architects De Prinsendam & Andreas Ensemble, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Josep Llinàs Atlàntida Performing Arts Centre, Vic, Osona, Spain
• TEN Arquitectos Chopo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
• Giancarlo Mazzanti El Porvenir Kindergarten, Bogotá, Colombia

URBANISM

• Grand plans are afoot in Earls Court, as Terry Farrell reveals his masterplan to add a major residential district to London

SKILL

• Hugh Broughton Architects cracks a cladding conundrum with its Antarctic research station on skis

MARGINALIA

• Unpacking Johannesburg's architectural heritage; De Chirico's art reaches for the unseen; Nikolaus Pevsner and the picturesque

DELIGHT

• William Kentridge's tiny model theatre explores big themes: life, light, darkness and Mozart