All Archive Titles articles – Page 101
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Nicholson's building blocks
Ben Nicholson's clashing forms in Saronikos (left) have an almost building-like solidity and his friendship with the father of the Royal Festival Hall, Sir Leslie Martin, give him an obvious design cachet. But much of the artist's work was bound up with architecture, from drawings of Siena city tower to ...
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The birth of the studios
David Chipperfield and Allies and Morrison weren't the first star architects asked to revamp BBC buildings. Back in the 1930s, the corporation hired up-and-coming designers to bring modernism into the studio
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As you've never seen it before...
Can you capture the inner form of a building by ignoring the detail and taking blurred, moody photographs instead?
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Allford Hall Monaghan Morris on doctor's orders in Kentish Town
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has won a competition launched in the RIBA Journal for the landmark Kentish Town Health Centre in Camden, north London
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All systems go
Imagine a world where you could tell exactly what a job was costing you at any point – and how much you'd get paid for it – by clicking on a simple graph. Such is the power of Job Management System, a new tool for designers that claims to do ...
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RIBA adds great Briton to photographic collection
The RIBA Library Photographs Collection has acquired the photographic archive of one of Britain's greatest 20th-century photographers, Edwin Smith (1912-1971)
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Expo 2002 runs like clockwork, but it'll make you forget other Swiss clichés
Expo 2002 is on until 20 October www.expo.02.chWhy would a visitor from the UK want to go to the Swiss Expo when it is, by its own admission, all about the 'attitudes and behaviour of Swiss people'? A cynic might say that the only reason this Expo jumps off the ...
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Archive TitlesThe verdict
On a sunny weekend in May, seven international architects joined editor Naomi Stungo to judge the 2002 World Architecture Awards. Two days later, they had chosen the 44 buildings that would fight it out for the US$30,000 top prize.
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Archive TitlesA step up
A 19th-century warehouse isn't the first place you'd expect to find the offices of a construction company. But thanks to Eva Jiricna, Amec's London base has a stylish contemporary interior – complete with one of her trademark steel-and-glass staircases.
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Archive TitlesThe Smithsons, by the Smithsons
Every page in this outstanding monograph on British brutalists Alison and Peter Smithson is meticulously laid out by the architects themselves.
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Archive TitlesThe stuff of legend
A trip to Robben Island has become a must-do for the intelligent traveller. Lucien le Grange's Cape Town ferry terminal had to balance the demands of the tourist trade and the claims of history – and it hasn't quite succeeded.
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Archive TitlesPower house
London has a new landmark. Foster and Partners' City Hall stands just across the river from the Tower of London and a short trip from the Houses of Parliament, but this glass-clad, energy-saving, fiendishly complex egg is a world away from the capital's other seats of power.
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Archive TitlesPhiladelphia gets Pelli tower
Cesar Pelli is to build a 30-storey tower in downtown Philadelphia
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Archive TitlesGet them out of the gallery
Laboratories is the Canadian Centre for Architecture's attempt to foster the work of six 'innovative research ateliers'. But wouldn't the exhibiting architects be better off designing buildings? We thought so – visitors to Montréal have until 18 September to make up their own minds
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Archive TitlesRenzo Piano to expand Meier landmark
Renzo Piano has been chosen to expand Richard Meier's High Museum of Art in Atlanta
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Five in race for young, gifted and Dutch prize
The Netherlands Architecture Institute has announced the first shortlist of a new prize for buildings by young Dutch architects
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Archive TitlesThree-act drama
Plans have been unveiled for the Kansas City Metropolitan Performing Arts Center designed by Moshe Safdie.The US$304m complex is perched on a 7ha hilltop site and will contain three auditoriums linked by a soaring glass enclosure that serves as a lobby.Construction is to start in 2004 and completion is scheduled ...
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Archive TitlesDazzling performance
Star names and astounding products have made Light + Building the Salone del Mobile of the lighting trade.