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Front 11 SCENE Hastings Pier – between the devil and the deep blue sea

13 UK CONSTRUCTION WEEK Why are there still so few women in construction?

17 100% DESIGN Benchmark's Sean Sutcliffe returns to 'mini-Milan'

20 DIARY Biennales in Istanbul and London and a fresh spin on Andy Warhol

23 CRIMES AGAINST DESIGN Why do we waste our holidays in gift shops?

25 OPINION Tiny homes – less a movement, more a glamorised trend

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On the cover The V&A Dundee, designed by Kengo Kuma.

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Design 28 BEIRUT DESIGN WEEK Can DIY urbanism save the Lebanese capital from its crumbling infrastructure?

38 MAKE YOUR OWN RHYTHM Meet the digital innovators behind the boom in new musical instruments

48 Q&A: PATRICIA URQUIOLA On her mentor, Achille Castiglioni, and the importance of thinking in minutes or seconds

58 PROFILE: EREZ NEVI PANA The vegan pioneer harnesses the power of the Dead Sea

66 ICON OF THE MONTH The Emeco 1006 Navy chair is virtually indestructible, but that's not the only reason it has lasted

Architecture 68 SHOPFRONT MOSQUES Why ad hoc high-street buildings make for powerful religious architecture

78 Q&A: KENGO KUMA An exclusive interview with the architect of the V&A Dundee – the institution's first satellite museum

88 WEIWUYING CENTER FOR THE ARTS, KAOHSIUNG Mecanoo and an army of shipbuilders create a titanic cultural complex in Taiwan's second city

96 THE MAN WHO BUILT WHITE HOUSES How Claudio Caveri forged a unique national identity for postwar Argentinian architecture

102 ICON OF THE MONTH Bruno Taut's Stadtkrone – an idea that still shines like a crystal tower

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Review 105 NORDIC CRAFT AND DESIGN Manchester Art Gallery traces Scandi modernism back to its bitterly cold roots

108 SOU FUJIMOTO: FUTURES OF THE FUTURE Intellectualism and cuteness from a prodigious architectural imagination

110 PRINT! TEARING IT UP From BLAST! to Migrant Journal, Somerset House reviews a century of independent magazines

114 WHAT BUILDING? Identify the famous frame in our monthly quiz