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Watchtowers, drones and a toxic moat: the designs for Trump’s border wall
Some proposals for Trump’s border wall may look like spoofs, but they provide a fascinating window into the lurid anxieties of middle America
A Brittany eco-home with extra gîte and yurt – in pictures
A geobiologist has built this complex of buildings out of eco-friendly materials around a wooden main house, with scope for tourist rentals
Inside Peru’s modern-day Machu Picchu – is this the best new building in the world?
The soaring buttresses and hanging walkways of UTEC in Lima have earned it the RIBA international prize. And Grafton Architects, the Irish team behind it, have equally big plans for Britain
Manchester’s Factory arts building gets go-ahead
Rem Koolhaas-designed £110m centre seen by city council as ‘genuine cultural counterbalance to London
Solar power to rise from Chernobyl’s nuclear ashes
Chinese companies plan to spend $1bn building a giant solar farm on land contaminated by the nuclear disaster in Ukraine
Dams be damned, let the world’s rivers flow again
The flawed development model of dam-building has continued around the world. It’s time to give permanent protection to free-flowing rivers
The struggle for the soul of Milton Keynes
Despite decades of mockery, the city’s modernist buildings and wide boulevards are now hailed as visionary. But as developers move in, could there be trouble in this urban paradise?
Grayson Perry’s A House for Essex: a stonking shrine to a fictional woman
In an exclusive first look inside his House for Essex, Grayson Perry explains that it’s all about Julie…
The Writers’ Building, Kolkata: a history of cities in 50 buildings
While the skeleton of the original remains, the building’s external structures have been extended and remodelled with the changing intentions of the city’s rulers for more than 230 years
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