All Building Design articles in 31 August 2007
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FeaturesWin a copy of The Architecture of Parking
We have two copies of Simon Henley's delightful exploration of car park design and the social insights it offers to give away.
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Review
Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft - until February 17
Prepare to revise your view of craftwork. Craft as you’ve never seen it before will be the subject of Out of the Ordinary, an exhibition of radical work by international artists using meticulous techniques with unexpected outcomes.
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NewsCabe appoints three new commissioners
Piers Gough, Nick Johnson and Hanif Kara are to become architecture watchdog Cabe’s latest commissioners.Gough and Kara will start immediately, replacing Dickon Robinson and Louisa Hutton, who stepped down in July. Johnson will succeed Brian Boylan, who plans to leave in December.Gough, principal of CZWG, said he hoped to become ...
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ReviewWembley Stadium National Icon by Patrick Barclay and Kenneth Powell
How England’s most beloved football stadium was transformed into the world’s largest and most versatile of its kind.
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Review50 Buildings You Should Know by Isabel Kuhl
The 50 buildings presented in chronological order represent the most compelling and aweinspiring structures from all over the world from the Pyramids of Cheops to the Jewish Museum in Berlin with full colour photographs.
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ReviewMicro. Very Small Buildings by Ruth Slavid
Features innovative small projects from around the world. Most of the projects consist of no more than a few key spaces, in many cases just a single space.
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ReviewInterior Architecture Now by Jennifer Hudson
An invaluable introduction to the key names and projects in contemporary interior architecture, this book covers the work of 55 international practitioners and includes both domestic and commercial spaces.
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ReviewWhite Towers by Paul Hirshorn and Steven Izenour, new preface by Paul Hirshorn
Reissue of this title first published almost 30 years ago tracing the theme and variations in the architecture of the White Tower hamburger chain.
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ReviewJourney to the East. Le Corbusier. Edited, annotated, translated and with a new preface by Ivan Zaknic.
Available again after many years, the legendary travel diary kept by the young Le Corbusier on his journey through the Balkans in 1911.
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Review101 Things I Learnt in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick
Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process and presentation, from the basics of "How to draw a Line" to the complexities of colour theory.
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ReviewBrandscapes. Architecture In The Experience Economy by Anna Klingmann
Architecture as imprint, as brand, as the new media of transformation - of places, communities, corporations, and people.
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Review
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia: Architecture 1956-87 - November 3 to February 10
The work of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, best known for St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross, is celebrated in a major exhibition.
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Review
Back to the Future: Sir Basil Spence (1907-76) - until February 10
Born in India, Spence came to Edinburgh in his youth and studied at Edinburgh College of Art. It’s appropriate, then, that Edinburgh is the venue for an exhibition to mark his centenary and celebrate work from his student days to his famous new Coventry Cathedral and encompassing airports, exhibitions, and ...
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Building StudyFoster reveals Spaceport design - images
These futuristic images are Foster and Partners’ designs for the world’s first passenger “spaceport”.
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OpinionNobody knows anything
Zero-champion Phil Clark is alarmed by how unclear we all are about carbon emissions and how to reduce them
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FeaturesPlaylist: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Motorhead and The Fall
David Scott wins a £15 iTunes token for his musical playlist
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FeaturesPhoto blog: As Goodwood as it gets
Cars have been inspiring architects since the first Model T Ford rolled off the production line. Grant Gibson found much to drool over at Saturday's Goodwood Revival.
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NewsRMJM tower threatens St Petersburg's world heritage status
Unesco is threatening to strip St Petersburg of its World Heritage status if the city proceeds with plans to build RMJM’s Gazprom tower.The 396m HQ for energy giant Gazprom has faced fierce opposition since RMJM won an international design competition last December.On Friday, Unesco’s deputy director Marcio Barbosa said Russia ...
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News
Shortlist for Olympic handball arena announced
DRMM, David Morley Architects, Make and Grimshaw are among those to make the shortlist for the London 2012 Olympic handball arena
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NewsNews Junkie: 1 and 2 September
Essential truths revealed this week: posh people block supermarkets, old people block nightclubs, famous people alienate neighbours, rich drug-dealing people invest in urban regeneration.