Twenty years after artist Christo spectacularly wrapped the meeting place of the German parliament in silvery foil, a permanent exhibition on this hugely successful event has gone on show at the Reichstag in Berlin.
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Serpentine Pavilion 2015, Kensington Gardens
The Serpentine Pavilions made architecture fun, an indispensable part of the summer social and cultural calendar and they cemented the Serpentine’s global reputation as one of the rare institutions that manages to combine art, design, architecture and serious debate in an enjoyable, time-limited capsule. The pavilion becomes a place where architecture is discussed, even by...
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Serpentine Pavilion 2015: a rainbow wormhole ready to suck you into another dimension
The pavilion follows on from last year’s white space-egg by Chilean architect Smiljan Radic, another cocoon-like structure, but one that had a primal feel compared to this year’s super-synthetic pupa. Both embody an almost anti-architectural approach, quite distinct from the first decade of monument-pavilions by big-name architects, and seem to be consciously resisting the pressure...
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Clipper Race: Sapinda Rainbow Project helps give underprivileged South Africans confidence at sea
The Clipper Race has been a life-changing experience for hundreds of crew since the first event in 1996 and for none more so than eight members of the Invest Africa yacht’s round-the-world racing team. They are all underprivileged young South Africans who were selected after a country-wide appeal by the Sapinda Rainbow Project, set up...