Edwin Heathcote
- Architecture critic for The Financial Times, he wrote an introduction to our specialist Marseille guide and articles on Aquatics Centre and MuCEM.
The world is all around me, not in front of me
Merleau Ponty
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Selected articles
Presence with Nonexistence
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ROTTERDAM (issue 2-2014) De Rotterdam on Wilhemina Pier (main photo by Iwan Baan). Today, if one crosses the Maas on the elegant Erasmus Bridge from Rotterdam’s city centre (if there is such a thing), one is greeted by the incongruous sight of Rem Koolhaas’s De Rotterdam. This ne[...]
LA Early High-Tech Modern
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SILVER LAKE (guide) VDL House, designed by Richard Neutra (photo: Julius Shulman after reconstruction in 1966. Richard Neutra's VDL house, also known as the Neutra Research House, is an icon of Californian High Tech Modernism. It was built in 1933 as a platform for the archite[...]
Gaudi's first masterpiece
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EL RAVAL, BARCELONA (guide) Palau Güell was Antoni Gaudi's first major commission, in which numerous architectural ideas were tried out for the first time. The intricate detailing of the building required a team of artisans, who continued to assist Gaudi throughout his career. It[...]
Re-greening the Medina
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MARRAKECH GARDENS (guide) Even if many hotels and private residences continue to practice ‘lawn and flower bed’ landscaping – imported from Europe and poorly adapted to the arid conditions of Marrakech – there is a new trend of drawing on ancient horticultural traditions, while e[...]
False Bay, More Coastline
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CAPE TOWN, DESIGN CAPITAL (1-2014) Architecture in Cape Town is inseparable from its geography. Table Mountain presides over the city and the peninsula provides its unique climate and landscape. One of these is the False Bay coast, popularly called the Indian Ocean side due to it[...]
Modernism in Camps Bay
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CAPE TOWN, DESIGN CAPITAL (1-2014) Now a glamorous seaside neighborhood, Camps Bay was pretty empty when Gabriel Fagan built his house there in the 1960s. He is one of the few Cape Town architects, who successfully worked with the language of modernism, as Peter Buchanan explains[...]
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ContributorsGrand Tour is made with a team of international writers , journalists and photographers
Lindeka Qampi
- Documentary photographer represented by Erdman Contemporary in Cape Town. Her photo essay from the Cape Flats in issue 1-2014.
Diego Ferrari
- London-based fine art photographer with an interest in architecture. His recent contribution is the Cape Town cover of issue 1-2014.
Guy Horton
- A writer based in Los Angles, who contributes to Grand Tour, The Architect’s Newspaper, The Huffington Post and the DnA blog.