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Front 15 SCENE WeWork takes over the world and Snøhetta makes a splash
17 DIARY Haring in Liverpool, Houben at the V&A and a boundarybusting London Festival of Architecture
20 CRIMES AGAINST DESIGN Homeless spikes: what architecture without humanity looks like
22 OPINION It’s time to embrace the bathroom, argues Charles Holland
On the cover A detail from the National Museum of Qatar photographed by Iwan Baan
June 2019
Design 26 UNIVERSAL DESIGN The next generation of inclusive design needs to be created with – not just for – its users
38 SAINT-ÉTIENNE BIENNALE The festival’s 11th edition put objects in their place, focusing instead on the systems that underpin them
46 PROFILE: JONATHAS DE ANDRADE The Brazilian artist tackling his country’s colonial legacy and failed urbanism
60 MILAN HIGHLIGHTS The top events and best new products from this year’s Salone
68 CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK Graphic design with a whiff of old London
72 ICON: THE MODERN WHEELCHAIR The one chair that truly changed the built environment for the better
Architecture 76 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF QATAR Jean Nouvel’s grandest projet crash-lands on Doha’s Corniche waterfront
86 PROFILE: ARTHUR MAMOU-MANI From desert temples to biobrick sculptures, the Parisian architect is bringing a poetic sensibility to digital design
94 MK GALLERY, MILTON KEYNES 6a Architects captures the arcadian spirit of Milton Keynes’ glory days
108 Q&A: ADRIAN LAHOUD The Sharjah Triennale curator on finding new meanings of architecture in the Australian landscape
119 PHOTO STORY The Bad City Dreams of Indian real estate
130 ICON: YASMEEN LARI’S SHELTERS A sustainable, local approach to post-disaster design
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Review 134 HOW CHICAGO! IMAGISTS 1960s & 1970s Goldsmiths CCA relives the heyday of the pop movement’s forgotten rival
140 B. V. DOSHI The Vitra Design Museum explores the humane, idealistic vision of India’s first Pritzker laureate
143 MAGDALENE ODUNDO The Kenyan-born ceramicist shares her diverse influences at The Hepworth Wakefield