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Archive TitlesBlaze of glory
The destruction of the Crystal Palace by fire in 1936 came at a time when, although it had been in decline as a popular attraction, it was in historiographical terms enjoying a rebirth.
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Archive TitlesTies that bind
The undoubted rivalry between architects and engineers doesn’t hide their complex dependency on each other, says John Pringle
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Archive TitlesZoom in zoom out by ‘Avatar’
Of course there are websites devoted to the architecture of various countries and cities
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Archive TitlesManagement software for architects
Welcome to Module 19 in our occasional series of CPD features designed to broaden your professional knowledge while you work.
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Airport idea dates to 40s
John Wheatley’s letter in your April issue refers to the ‘startlingly original concept’ … ‘dreamt up in the 1960s’ ... of a ‘London airport built on reclaimed land east of the Thames Estuary’.
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Archive TitlesWatercity
Flyovers and dual carriageways, train lines and the sinuous River Lea cut across Canning Town in east London. Erick van Egeraat associated architects (as they write it) has launched its masterplan for the area which aims to increase pedestrian links with the surrounding areas and the riverside.
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Archive TitlesDoes it stack up?
Dutch architect OTH saved a giant maritime relic on Amsterdam’s River IJ with an idea for its reuse: build on top.
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Sssshhhh…
What are most offices missing? Somewhere to work quietly, as Sharon Turner of Swanke Hayden Connell found.
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Archive TitlesSingapore sling
IJP Corporation’s architecture is based on mathematical notation. Its first built project makes the numbers stack up.
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Archive TitlesScene setter
Creating a sense of place from a collection of 20 office buildings requires order as well as imagination. At Spinningfields, the man with a plan is Stuart Lyell.
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Perking up
Too many architectural offices consign staff to a life of strict office hierarchy and unpaid overtime, so it’s refreshing to find a firm that bucks the trend.
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Archive TitlesOpen season
When thinking of the development of office buildings, a number of iconic images come quickly to mind – Sir John Soane’s sadly demolished offices at the Bank of England, London..
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Offices
The Bankside eyrie that has been home to the RIBA Journal for the past few years is a smooth-skinned, cranked slab of a late 1980s office block, unexpectedly acclaimed as the shape of the future by none other than the late Martin Pawley when it was originally built on former ...
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Links to research papers
The Practice pages in your March 2008 issue contain an important article about Alan Short’s award-winning research (p67-68). Unfortunately, it does not tell your readers where to find this research.
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Paxton wouldn’t like it
Your correspondent Ray Hall (Letters, February 08) somehow seems to equate the ‘big victory’ in saving St Pancras with his proposed rebuilding of the ‘authentic Crystal Palace.’
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I’m not interested
What are you thinking about? As editor of our professional journal, you have a responsibility to pander to our every need.
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Archive TitlesWhatever happened to the... Inland Revenue?
Those filing tax returns will know that the Inland Revenue no longer exists. It is now Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
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Archive TitlesGood morning, Vietnam
Never mind China, here comes Vietnam. Since six million strong Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s largest, is expanding rapidly, it needs to do a Shanghai and expand across its river.
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Archive TitlesWe’re going to the zoo…
You can come too. London Wall in the City is a menagerie of big beast office blocks. Who better to trace their evolution than Frank Duffy?