New architecture style just dropped … mass timber brutalism

By Charlap, Hyman & Herrero, Montana

For CNN Style, I spoke with British photographer Jack Latham on Vietnam's click farms, which he says are 'like Silicon Valley startups.'

Thanks to Oscar Holland for commissioning + editing this story.

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Singapore has approved Marina Bay Sands' fourth tower (left). In 2022, architect Moshe Safdie told me that officials suggested he shouldn’t “screw around” (his words) with an icon, so it stands apart — making MBS “sort of an exclamation mark,” he said.

Chipperfield on working in China: “Over the last 18 years, at regular intervals, I have said, ‘Why do I have an office in Shanghai?’ It’s a pointless exercise in some sense.' theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

How Japan spent more than a century earthquake-proofing its architecture Oscar Holland

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In a CNN exclusive, architecture firm Buro Ole Scheeren showed me its plans for Tencent’s new campus in Shenzhen, dubbing it the “headquarters of the future” cnn.com/style/china-te…

With a school campus that encourages students to 'waste time mindfully,' designers from Approach Design Studio & ZJUT have become the first mainland Chinese architects to win World Architecture Festival's World Building of the Year prize
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Meet Looty: a Pekingese dog stolen by the Brits in the 1860 looting of China's Old Summer Palace and gifted to the queen, sparking a craze.

I wrote CNN Style about her story and how what it represents (British imperialism and racism) remains relevant now: cnn.com/style/looty-do…

Nicolas Cage did not choose the meme life. The meme life chose him.

I interviewed the man, the myth, the legend about Dream Scenario. He did not disappoint.

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A secretive Taiwanese power plant in the outlying Matsu archipelago just miles from the shores of mainland China opens to the public for the first time — as a cyberpunk art space. Story by me. Thanks ⁦Oscar Holland⁩ for editing! cnn.com/style/taiwan-b…

.Emiko Jozuka speaks to the heritage experts, conservationists and residents concerned over plans to revamp one the Japanese capital’s most beloved parks cnn.com/style/tokyo-ji…

A humble but massive legal win: A migrant worker from India sued his employers in Singapore after he fell off the back of an overcrowded lorry. And won. Full story on CNN: cnn.com/2023/08/26/asi…

A CNN Style exclusive: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has designed a smart city masterplan outside Muscat, due to complete 2045 cnn.com/style/oman-sma…

Pretty much everyone in the room last night had come down from Malaysia (after Matty-Healy-gate canceled the KL appearance)

Incredible 90m span for a timber roof at the Saint Denis Aquatic Centre, for the Paris 2024 Olympics

18 months from a general election and Lib Dems are already targeting overseas voters (at £2.20 a pop)

‘Like entering a forest’: Inside Asia’s largest timber building -- CNN

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Monday marks 10 years since history's deadliest garment factory disaster. More than 1,100 people, mostly women, were killed. Over 2,500 others were injured. By Oscar Holland cnn.com/style/article/…