Nile Bridgeman

Review: Tropical Modernism at the V&A

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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence has expressive sculpture, carefully curated archival imagery and a particular knack for narration, leaving you wanting to discover more, says Nile Bridgeman

Penoyre & Prasad’s PEARL research facility

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An apparently low-tech shed in Dagenham is home to this laboratory for UCL, which uses 1:1 modelling to test how people use the built environment, writes Nile Bridgeman. Photography James Tye and Timothy Soar