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Inside Parkuir: the art project queering sport, space and our bodies

Lie and play — Founded by Maria Laudes and Guiu Gimeno, it provides a framework for engaging, subverting, and celebrating the small details that make people unique – and queer.

  • Sport
  • Molly Lipson
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Tabriz, Iran. 2012 © Miriam Stanke

The intricate, intimate interiors of Middle Eastern homes

Living Rooms — Drawn from photographs made over the span of three decades, Middle East Archive has compiled a photobook that explores the insides of homes across the region, spotlighting its family intimacy and hospitality.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

The radical history of Black-led self-building in Lewisham

Nubia Way — A new documentary tells the story of an unassuming cul-de-sac of 13 timber framed houses built by Fusions Jameen – London's first Black housing co-op.

  • Activism
  • Jade Chao

Otherworldy photos of former Soviet monuments

Brutalism after dark — Photographer Yang Xiao recalls travelling across Eastern Europe to capture a series of Brutalist and Soviet modernist architecture with a distinctly alien feel.

  • Culture
  • Huck

The dystopian megacities of anime architecture

Brave new world — A new book celebrating the creative process behind Japan's animated cityscapes offers both architectural escapism and bold imaginings of a near future.

  • Culture
  • Gunseli Yalcinkaya

A town for tomorrow: Thamesmead’s utopian history

Modernist memories — Despite providing the dystopian backdrop for A Clockwork Orange, Thamesmead was originally envisioned as a bold new future for London housing. Now, a new book is celebrating its futuristic beginnings – and looking ahead to what comes next.

  • Photography
  • Niall Flynn

A peek inside the world’s most unusual nomadic homes

The great escape — A new book from Taschen explores the enduring appeal of the mobile home; from revamped vintage campervans to extravagant, under-water houseboats.

  • Travel
  • HUCK HQ

Why the brutalist architecture of Britain's housing estates matters in 2016

They never were failed utopias — The debate around social housing and the Brutalist architecture that embodies it has been raging for half a century. In London, 2016, it feels like the war being waged against council estates is being won, even though social need is as great as ever before.

  • Culture
  • Marianna Manson

The architect building his own skate oasis in the ruins of the Greek crisis

Athens’ creative renaissance has begun — Latraac is a cutting-edge skate bowl and social space in a drug-infested neighbourhood of Athens - part of a new wave of creative projects transforming the city’s fortunes.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

Huck unleashes a terrifying creature upon Shoreditch

The False Beast has risen — Illustrator Toby Melville-Brown kicks off our 71a Gallery window artist takeover project with False Beast.

  • Art
  • Alex King

Photographer Marc Vallée on two decades of documenting youth culture

Shooting, spraying and the streets — Prolific photographer and DIY zinemaker Marc Vallée gives us the lowdown on his self-publishing talk at Tate.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

Mar Cerdà: the artist recreating the world of Wes Anderson in miniature

Things That Inspire Me — Spanish artist Mar Cerdà shares what inspires her beyond the weird world of Wes, including paper theatres and French comic Jacques Tati.

  • Art
  • Alex King

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