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Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, winners of the Lacaton and Vassal Charlotte Perriand Award, lecturing at Columbia GSAPP
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Lacaton and Vassal Charlotte Perriand Award Honours a Career Spent Not Demolishing

The Lacaton and Vassal Charlotte Perriand Award, announced on 3 November 2026, rewards something the architecture world spent decades treating as a consolation prize: keeping a building. Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal will receive Le Prix Charlotte Perriand 2027 at a ceremony on 16 January 2027 at the Shangri-La Paris, the Créateurs Design Awards (CDA) […]

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Nvidia headquarters sign in Santa Clara as Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO
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Jensen Huang Resigns as Nvidia CEO: Colette Kress Steps In as Shares Slide

Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO. The sentence would have sounded impossible a week ago. On Thursday 12 November 2026, Nvidia’s board announced that its founder had resigned as president, chief executive and board member, effective immediately, ending 33 years in charge of the company he co-founded in 1993 (USA TODAY). Information verified through 13 […]

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Demonstration crowd in Madrid during the Spain general strike housing crisis protests
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Spain General Strike Housing Crisis Brings Country to a Halt

The Spain general strike housing crisis brought Spain's first general strike in 14 years, which stopped ports, metros and shops on 11 November 2026, as four million workers protested a housing crisis in which average rent now equals a young person's monthly pay.

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Covent Garden in London on a winter evening, the Victorian world of Ti West's film for anyone asking is Ebenezer worth watching
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Is Ebenezer Worth Watching? A Gothic Christmas Carol With a Divisive Scrooge

So, is Ebenezer worth watching? The short answer is yes — if you want your Christmas ghost story to actually be a ghost story. Ti West’s gothic take on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol opened in UK and US cinemas on Friday 13 November 2026, with Johnny Depp as Scrooge, and the first reviews agree […]

Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, winners of the Lacaton and Vassal Charlotte Perriand Award, lecturing at Columbia GSAPP
Architecture & Design · Article

Lacaton and Vassal Charlotte Perriand Award Honours a Career Spent Not Demolishing

The Lacaton and Vassal Charlotte Perriand Award, announced on 3 November 2026, rewards something the architecture world spent decades treating as a consolation prize: keeping a building. Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal will receive Le Prix Charlotte Perriand 2027 at a ceremony on 16 January 2027 at the Shangri-La Paris, the Créateurs Design Awards (CDA) […]

Apollo Theater auditorium in Harlem, near the corner where the Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem opens
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Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem Opens: the North Gets Its Own Civil Rights Museum

The Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem opens to the public on Saturday 14 November 2026, and it starts from a simple observation: the movement’s map has a missing half. The famous museums stand in the South — Montgomery, Selma, Birmingham. This one, established by the National Urban League, tells the story of the fight […]

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