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London’s queer community needs architects and designers to help them create new social spaces, says Ben Campkin, co-author of a report charting the decline of LGBT+ venues across the city. Campkin’s research, carried out with Laura Marshall for the UCL Urban Laboratory, found that London’s LGBT+ venues were fast disappearing – down by 58 per

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Weird and wonderful designs by architects including Zaha Hadid Architects, Madelon Vriesendorp and Sarah Wigglesworth have been installed over the more traditional models of the V&A’s architecture gallery, in an exhibition for the London Festival of Architecture. Paper Castles sees 15 architects and studios create architectural models that imagine the future while reflecting on the

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With the London Festival of Architecture kicking off today, Dezeen’s deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft picks out the 10 best things in the programme, including a colourful pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery and Patrick Schumacher talking about affordable housing. There are over 400 events taking place for London Festival of Architecture 2019, which takes place throughout the

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London-based photographer Joanne Underhill has attempted to save Welbeck Street car park in a “small way” with a new series of colour photos. Underhill first captured the London building in 2013, for a photography project called Beautiful Brutalism, but was motivated to document it more throughly after discovering it was due to be torn down

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