#the riba

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Grafton win Pritzker prize, architecture's highest honour

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, who run the practice Grafton, are just the fourth and fifth women to win the prize in its 41-year history

Grafton wins the Pritzker ! :)

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'One never builds something finished': the brutal brilliance of architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha

He’s been blacklisted and seen his work torn down. But the great Brazilian creator of vast gravity-defying buildings has just entered architecture’s elite

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(The RIBA)

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Britain's brutalist playgrounds – in pictures

We’re familiar with the sight of brutalist towers in Britain, but less well known are the strange playgrounds built at the same time, with their rough surfaces and dangerous drops – now re-created at the RIBA

progress in playground designs. recreations. 1:1 models

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The world's best building? A remote Brazilian school made out of wood

This year’s Royal Institute of British Architects prize goes to the timber and mud-brick Children Village, which doesn’t need air-con even in 45 degree heat

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Cheeky, cartoonish … and under threat: why our postmodern buildings must be saved

PoMo architecture, often derided as gaudy and excessive, is having a revival - just in time to save some its greatest treasures

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'I'm dumbfounded!' … Neave Brown on bagging a RIBA award for the building that killed his career

It was late, over-budget and ended his career. But 40 years on, Neave Brown has just won British architecture’s top award for the Alexandra Road estate and similar masterpieces of social housing