All Architects' inspirations articles – Page 2
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InspirationsRichard Cottrell's inspiration: Unité d’habitation de Briey, France
Richard Cottrell and Brian Vermeulen set up their practice after working together on the restoration of the Briey Unité
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InspirationsChris Loyn's inspiration: Fallingwater, Pennsylvania
The relationship of Fallingwater to the landscape was a powerful influence on Chris Loyn despite never visting the house
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InspirationsAnnalie Riches' inspiration: Park Hill, Sheffield
Park Hill sparked Sheffield student Annalie Riches’ interest in designing social housing. Now Mikhail Riches is working on phase 2 of its refurbishment
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InspirationsBen Derbyshire's inspiration: Hubertus House, Amsterdam
New RIBA president Ben Derbyshire says Aldo van Eyck’s community for single mothers could be an exemplar for shared living today
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InspirationsBook review and competition: 50 Architects 50 Buildings - The buildings that inspire architects
BD’s long-running Architects’ Inspirations series is one of the magazine’s best-loved features. Now the twentieth-century buildings have been brought together for the first time in a new book. Paul McGrath takes a look.
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InspirationsHugh Broughton's inspiration: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Hugh Broughton knows the Spanish capital’s buildings intimately but the one that really stood out was Rafael Moneo’s magnificent art gallery
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InspirationsKen Shuttleworth's inspiration: Salisbury Cathedral
The founder of Make on a building with more lessons for him than any from the 20th century
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InspirationsDuggan Morris' inspiration: Igualada Cemetery
Joe Morris and Mary Duggan, founding partners of Duggan Morris, on a cemetery like no other
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InspirationsChris Williamson's Inspiration: Eames House, Los Angeles, California
Weston Williamson founding partner Chris Williamson on the building that has everything
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InspirationsPatrick Lynch's Inspiration: St Peter’s Church, Klippan
The founder of Lynch Architects is moved by the visceral drama of this Swedish church
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InspirationsEdward Jones' Inspiration: Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan
The Dixon Jones co-founder marvels at a building which draws comparisons with the Bauhaus
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InspirationsDominic Papa's Inspiration: Schiphol Airport
S333 founder praises the clarity and logic of Schiphol Airport’s transparent design
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InspirationsKeith Williams' Inspiration: The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe
Keith Williams explains how Mies’ German Pavilion for the Barcelona Exhibition of 1929 still has the power to enthral
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InspirationsJohn Tuomey's inspiration: E1027
As BD reprises its celebrated Inspirations series, in which architects reflect on the buildings that have influenced their work, the O’Donnell Tuomey co-founder recalls E1027, the house in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, by Eileen Gray which was completed between 1926-29
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InspirationsDavid Archer's inspiration: Steinhof church, Vienna
David Archer finds modernity and tradition meet in Otto Wagner’s creation of a complete artistic environment for the Steinhof church in Vienna
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InspirationsRCKa’s inspiration: the Palais de Tokyo by Lacaton & Vassal
RCKa’s Russell Curtis, Dieter Kleiner and Tim Riley celebrate the freedom and generosity of Lacaton Vassal’s reworking of the Palais de Tokyo
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InspirationsAlex Ely’s inspiration: the Britz Metropolitan Settlement by Bruno Taut with Martin Wagner
Mae Architects’ Alex Ely admires Taut’s Berlin housing project for its ideas of democratic placemaking
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InspirationsSean Griffiths' inspiration: the American Bar in Vienna by Adolf Loos
Sean Griffiths admires the way in which Adolf Loos’s American Bar in Vienna reflects the cultural collisions of a Europe on the brink of modernism
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InspirationsMJ Long's inspiration: Zonnestraal Sanatorium by Jan Duiker with Bernard Bijvoet
Long Kentish co-founder MJ Long is reacquainted with the now-restored Zonnestraal Sanatorium that first opened her eyes to European modernism