6 KEYNOTE
   Democratic designs
   'It is in no way obvious that
    there can be such a thing as
    democratic architecture'
   Jan-Werner Müller

16 BUILDING
     ZIN World Trade Center towers
     Brussels, Belgium
     51N4E, Jaspers-Eyers Architects and l'AUC
     Christophe Van Gerrewey

26 CITY PORTRAIT
     New Administrative Capital, Egypt
     'The New Administrative
      Capital encloses the centre
       of power in a shiny
       hars-to-reach empire'
     Yasmine El Rashidi

32 TYPOLOGY
     Parliament
     Sophia Psarra
      
    CASE STUDIES
     Parliament of India
     New Dehli, India
     HCP Design Planning & Management
    
     Interim House
     The Hague, the Netherlands
     Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven
     
     Benin National Assembly
     Porto-Novo, Benin
     Kéré Architecture

42 OUTRAGE
     Chinese power play in Malawi
     'How and why did China
      get involved in building
      a parliament building for
      another sovreign state?'
     Innocent Bastani-Ncube

44 REVISIT
     James R Thompson Center
     Chicago, US
     Helmut Jahn
     Zach Mortice

56 ESSAY
     Traces of violence in Windhoek
     Frank Steinhofer

65 INTERVIEW
     Grace Blakeley
     Eleanor Beaumont

70 EXHIBITION
     The Gift : Stories of Generosity
     and Violence in Architecture
     Florian Heilmeyer

74 BOOK
     Architecture Against Democracy : 
     Histories of the Nationalist International
     Enrique Ramírez

80 ESSAY
     A forbidden history
     of Tiananmen Square
     Stephen Daker

86 REPUTATION
     Abdel Moneim Mustafa
     Esra Akcan

90 BUILDING
     Public infrastructure projects
     Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico
     Michael Snyder

102 BUILDING
       Public Hall,
       Istanbul, Turkey
       So? Architecture and Ideas
       Jennifer Hattam

110 ESSAY
       Platform politics
       'Far from being innately
        hospitable to liberalism
        online platform may be
         formenting its demise' 
       Rob Gallagher