Campaigners seek listed status for Finnish sauna from 1948 Olympics – wooden hut is Britain's oldest operating sauna and ‘hugely important’ piece of sporting history
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The history of emoticons
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Architecture lovers can spend the night in a modernist masterpiece designed by Alvar Aalto – former TB sanatorium is now Finland's most unusual holiday let
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Why everyone hates this concrete building, and why brutalism dominates US college campuses
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SolarPunk vs CyberPunk: Our cities' last hope?
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How the Blitz enhanced London’s economy (2018)
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Avoriaz: a ski city in the sky
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‘Instant credibility’: The evolution of sneakers from functional kicks to high-value commodities
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The world’s oldest cat door has been letting working cats enter the cathedral since the 14th Century
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The Baťa Skyscraper in Zlín, Czechia is a landmark of architecture. And inside it, the office of Jan Antonín Baťa... is an elevator.
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“The Famous F40” vector illustration by David Rumfelt
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Everything you didn't know about Ukraine's flag
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How one company owns color
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Exposed: Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people.
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The bewildering architecture of skybridges
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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‘They found ways to do the impossible’: Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve for ever
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Is it time to do away with “good taste?”
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Buzludzha was the pinnacle of Bulgaria’s communist-era monuments and drew international visitors as a modern ruin. Now, it’s poised to be the country’s first monument presented like a museum.
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The icon sets proposed in the icon contest
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The secret world of Japan's puzzle masters
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The Museum of Failure’s latest exhibition is an epic portrait of failures big and small—from the Ford Edsel, to CNN+
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Czechia's incredible 1960s supervillain-lair hotel (and why its architect got banned by the regime)
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A gallery of Sony product design going back decades
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The olympic pictograms are miniature design masterpieces
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The unfathomable scale of the Brussels Palace of Justice
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How the inventor of the troll doll missed out on a fortune
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The forgotten story of Modulex – Lego's lost cousin
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Megacities: Reality or fiction? Architecture in sci-fi
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Why Norway's churches look weird
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Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed
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The toxic history of color
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This video tells the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, its design, construction, life, and ultimate demise
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A Twitter thread on Alfred Loos, one of the founders of modern architecture, and why modern housing looks so plain
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Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed Icelandic homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments
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Amsterdam is changing
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Recently discovered drawings by Gustave Eiffel of the Statue of Liberty hint at last minute change
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Lessons from the golden age of the mall walkers
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Art, fashion, and the French Revolution
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The hidden histories of To-Go container art
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Why people thought steel houses were a good idea
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The bewildering architecture of indoor cities
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The giant chainmail box that stops a house dissolving
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The last design you'll ever make
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(mac)OStalgia: 2021 meets Mac OS 9 (featuring designs for Spotify, Slack, Zoom)
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Émile-Antoine Bayard's illustrations for 'Around the Moon' by Jules Verne (1870)
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Meet the Swedish artist who hooked British rock royalty on her revolutionary crochet
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For decades, US cities have been closing or neglecting public restrooms, leaving millions with no place to go. Here’s how a lack of toilets became an American affliction.
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Sexist and offensive vintage ads that would never fly today, 1940-1980
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The real first 3D printed buildings (1930s)
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