Buying back-to-school essentials last week, the shops were crowded like a train during rush-hour.
A long list in hand, our No 1 priority, according to my 12-year-old, was to buy an iPhone screen protector.
We found one, and as the assistant laboriously polished the glass of my son’s phone, from the corner of my left eye I spotted the shop I didn’t know I needed.
‘I’m just going in there,’ I gestured toward Ann Summers as though I were off
For architecture that’s ahead of the curve, look no further.
Curved: Bending Architecture, published by Lannoo, is written by art and design historian Agata Mazur, who delves into the engineering feats and aesthetic triumphs of designing arching and twisting buildings.
Over 60 astonishing buildings feature in the book, including a cloudscape that opens up to the skies in China’s Hainan Province, and a clever brick house in Belgium that wraps around the woodland area it inhabits.
The introduction
