july 2012

Contents

Cover image: the hague by stamen

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Leader Scene iary ANATOMY Of rethink FIVE Most Wanted Icon of the Month

FRONT Spatial revolutions Striptease at the Design Museum Events to see this month Altaeros Energies’ airborne wind turbine Magpie Studio gives the ruler a new edge Jeremy Till’s favourite things Where would we be without GPS?

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NEW Gehry’s stone tower in Hong Kong, an angular cinema in Amsterdam, Kieran Timberlake’s lattice of research buildings in Houston, Texas, and our round-up of the Milan Furniture Fair – including new products by the Bouroullecs, Front’s bubble lampshade and a farm for growing chairs

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amen center for land use interpretation up on the rof ar roms

FEATURE The studio who turned data mapping into an art An alternative geography of America, from UFO sites and police training centres to urban oil fields Alex MacLean looks down on New York The architecture of crisis management

DESIGN REPORT 44 pages of the latest kitchen and bathroom design

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REVIEW The biggest Bauhaus exhibition in 40 years, Africa in science fiction, Suzanne Treister’s dreamlike deck of tarot cards, primitivism and contemporary art, and a delve into the myths behind Hawksmoor’s churches

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PRODUCTS Selected lighting, furniture and f looring products

DIRECTORY A noticeboard for design, retail and services

BACK PAGE Joep van Lieshout

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