All Archive Titles articles – Page 104
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Archive TitlesAnd now back to the studio
These days, £2.2m won't even buy you a British gangster flick. At Aberystwyth university, it paid for Patel Taylor's imposing film, television and theatre school.
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Archive TitlesThe Charged Void: Architecture
This large book (about 600 pages and 3kg) by Alison and Peter Smithson brings together all of their ideas on architecture.
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Archive TitlesUpstart: John Burrell on housing associations' anti-social tendencies
It's difficult to criticise the providers of social housing.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter - Anthony Hunt
The legendary engineer whose career spans from the 1965 Reliance Controls factory to the Eden Project has just retired. Find out what he plans to do next …
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Archive TitlesForeign Office's origami adds wow factor to Yokohama ferry terminal
If you like your buildings with more twists than a bowl of noodles, visit the just-completed Yokohama International Port Terminal in Japan.
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Zoo
ZooEric Baratray and Elisabeth Hardouin-FugierReaktion Books£28Zoo architecture is a contradiction in terms. Wild animals do not live in buildings and to put them in houses or enclosures of any kind is to destroy their very wildness. This creates a fascinating challenge for the architect. If the aim is to stop ...
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On the waterfront
In the first of our City limits series on the regeneration of urban black-spots, we find out how Richard Rogers, Will Alsop, John McAslan and Herzog & de Meuron are transforming the mean streets and riverside warehouses of Deptford
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Archive TitlesTale of the tape
How do you convince clients you're serious about sustainability? You set up a system that tests how green your projects are and then you get the environmental system assessed, that's how. So will you measure up?
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Archive TitlesSoft touch
Minimalism is all very well, but there's nothing like a rug to add colour and warmth. Overleaf, find out how Michael Hopkins, Squire and Partners and David Richmond are trying a little tenderness.
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Planning: Secrets of success
Knowing your limits can be the first step to a successful application
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New testament
On the 150th anniversary of Gaudí's birth, a team spread between Spain and Australia used state-of-the-art modelling techniques to complete another chunk of his famously unfinished Sagrada Família. Two team members, Mark and Jane Burry, explain how
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Our struggle with nature
Ninety years ago, one of the largest moving objects ever made by man collided with one of the largest moving objects produced by nature. The results were devastating. On that April night in 1912, some 66,000 tons of ship sank and more than 1500 people died in the waters of ...
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Archive TitlesLicensed to thrill
With its friendly functionalism and array of architectural toys – surprise hatches, moving mirrors and sliding panels – Form Design Architecture's slick loft conversion is the ideal hideaway for a secret agent.
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Principles: Limiting liability
Limiting your liability is harder than you think. Don't get snookered by an unclear brief or accused of 'over-designing'.
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Archive TitlesDoing it for the kids
A child's bedroom reflects the stages of its life from toddler through to teenager, yet few manufacturers have addressed the issue of a child's changing requirements – until now.A competition launched by retailer and manufacturer MFI and RIBAJ wants ideas for bedrooms that are flexible enough to grow with ...
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Archive TitlesWill Hakes join the superleague?
Big experienced architects tend to soak up the attention at the RIBA Awards, but every year at least one young practice breaks through.
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Archive TitlesSo you're gonna be RIBA president? This is what you need to know …
George Ferguson, who was elected as RIBA president last month, will take office in 2003.
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Archive TitlesMorley's flying saucer lands at RA
The first element of David Morley's scheme to rethink Regent's Park will go on show next week at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition.
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Archive TitlesFertile imagination
Forget dull bleached-out corridors and endless rows of doors. Buschow Henley's fertility clinic combines the formality of its science and admin spaces with a more relaxed atmosphere in the public areas.
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Archive TitlesSimple complex
Vincent van Duysen thinks we're hung up on the minimalist label. What he is after is a duality where different styles flow into each other. Where better to express himself than at B&B Italia and the menswear department of Selfridges?