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"A home makeover-style TV programme in Iraq that offers needy families the opportunity to have their war-damaged homes re-built from scratch has become a massive hit."
"The city has grown up since the Modern shut its doors to build its new home two and a half years ago. The hole left by the twin towers. A war in Iraq. A polarized electorate. Our culture is in a crisis as critical as any since the cold war period when Modernism reached its final, exuberant bloom."
It sounds like a gnomic paradox, but the concept of invisible architecture translates into a constellation of expensive decisions. Riley pointed to a black granite wall whose panels are so large and meticulously aligned that the joints all but vanish, creating the effect of a seamless curtain. "When the light hits it a certain way, it looks like velvet," Riley says. "This is architecture that's all about hiding itself."
