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The world's best building? A remote Brazilian school made out of wood This year’s Royal Institute of British Architects prize goes to the timber and mud-brick Children Village, which doesn’t need air-con even in 45 degree heat Oliver Wainwright   @ollywainwright Wed 21 Nov 2018  00.01 GMT Last modified on Wed 21 Nov 2018  00.03 GMT Shares 4,373 Comments 202   The complex is a model of light-touch environmental design, providing a huge expanse of shade … Children Village by Brazilian designer Rosenbaum and architects Aleph Zero. Photograph: Leonardo Finotti/Rosenbaum Arquitetura 2017 A forest of eucalyptus columns extends inside the expansive dormitory complex of the Canuanã school in northern  Brazil , as if the nearby woodland has taken over the building. Between the soaring trunks stand clusters of little mud-brick rooms arranged around open courtyards, while a wafer-thin metal canopy floats above the...

comment : could it be that the orientals in general  are more accepting of everyone in the big picture ? Interpol elects South Korean as its president, in blow to Russia Kim Jong-yang defeats Russian accused of overseeing police targeting of dissidents Benjamin Haas  in Seoul,  Shaun Walker  and agencies Wed 21 Nov 2018  09.13 GMT First published on Wed 21 Nov 2018  07.31 GMT Shares 2,338   Kim Jong-yang speaking at a press conference in January. Photograph: Kang Kyung-kook/AP South Korea’s Kim Jong-yang has been elected as Interpol’s next president, edging out a longtime veteran of Russia’s security services who was strongly opposed by the US, Britain and other European nations. The White House and its European partners  had lobbied against  Alexander Prokopchuk’s attempts to be named the next president of the international police body, saying his election would lead to further...