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FEATURES 4 24 SPECIAL K 10 14 SPECIAL K - 4 The French harbour town of St Nazaire is lifted from its war history by K-architecture’s theatre. Herbert Wright learns how the shell of the new theatre space is softened by its intricate cast concrete pattern. The question is whether the raw materials and ornamental finish is enough to counterbalance the imposing U-boat bunker left over from the town’s wartime past, providing a new ‘theatre for everyone’ 2 M/MIXING IT UP - 24 Over two decades the French graphic design practice M/M, otherwise known as Mathias Augustyniak and Michaël Amzalag, has built an incredible repertoire of collaborative work. From Balenciaga to Björk, from Madonna to M/ Mink, its very own perfume, Yolanda Zappaterra meets the pair on the occasion of the release of their monograph to discuss their canny conceptual approach towards working with other artists and disciplines FISH O FOWLER -10 While the Shoreditch environs of his studio have morphed from dive to des-res over the past 10 years, Pete Fowler’s work remains deliciously, phantasmagorically, silly. Johnny Tucker meets the artist and friend of monsters, seafaring synth creatures and Super Furry Animals. On the eve of a large retrospective exhibition in his native Wales, Fowler talks technology, synthesisers and finding inspiration in the ocean. A PRACTIC