All Archive Titles articles – Page 107
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Tsien joins Ground Zero agency
Architect appointed to Lower Manhattan Development Corporation as reconstruction begins at 7 World Trade Center
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Ungers wins Frankfurt’s top honour
The elder statesman of German architecture, Oswald Mathias Ungers (pictured left), has been presented with Frankfurt am Main’s highest award, the Goethe Plakette. Named after Frankfurt’s most famous citizen, it is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the city’s cultural landscape. In his acceptance speech, the 77-year-old described himself ...
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Pirelli skyscraper repairs to cost €40m
Gio Ponti's Pirelli tower in Milan will need €40m (US$36m) of repair work after a light aircraft crashed into the building, killing three people and injuring 70.The plane ripped through the 25th and 26th floors of the skyscraper on 18 April, claiming the lives of Anna Maria Rapetti and Alessandra ...
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Relax
Maybe it's Panic Room. Maybe it's 11 September. Maybe the high priests of furniture design just got bored with straight lines. Whatever the reason, this year's Milan Furniture Fair was all about comfy chairs, squidgy shapes and – shock horror – the return of the beanbag
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Rampart with a view
Domestic extensions are the bread and butter of many architects. For his latest add-on, Christopher Platt created a timber fortress that overlooks the Glasgow hills
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Seeing the light
You don't expect to find a fresh-faced, timber-lined concoction next to a Victorian church. But thanks to the enlightened congregation of Greenbank Parish Church in Edinburgh, Lee Boyd has created just that
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Archive TitlesTouching up Lasdun's theatre
Sir Denys Lasdun was notoriously touchy about changes to his designs and, when it comes to the grade I-listed National Theatre (pictured), a few planners might agree with him.
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Off the grid
Exotic, radical, incongruous. The timber gridshell at the Weald and Downland Museum is all of the above – and a model of teamworking
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The workaholic life of Gio Ponti
Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti, who is celebrated in an exhibition at the Design Museum this month, was a workaholic. His day typically began at 5am with some letter writing – between 20 and 30 a day – and ended after dinner, when he sketched. He spent these days ...
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Fornasetti's new language
One of the most delightful shows at this year's Milan Furniture Fair was the new collection from Fornasetti designed by Nigel Coates. The architect says he became enchanted with Fornasetti's work, which plays with image and surface, and saw the commission as an opportunity to 'enhance the Fornasetti language' using ...
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Expand your horizons
Alexander Hall is an associate at Douglas Briggs Partnership in Bosham, outside Chichester. He took the History of English Domestic Architecture course at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum.
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Tree root encroachment
Find out why a recent ruling is changing the law on tree root encroachment liabilities – and how to dodge the writs
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Archive TitlesUpstart: Oona King on the new East End
Tower Hamlets is one of the poorest boroughs in the UK but it juxtaposes one of the richest, the City of London.
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Fancy dress
A bespoke cladding system will make your building stand out from the crowd, but it's definitely not the easy option. Here's how seven architects got a unique facade without reinventing the wheel
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Luck of the draw
Feeling left out of the digital era? Try the new touch-screen technology and software that lets you draw straight onto your computer screen and create instant 3D models
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Why urban design is politics
In all my 50 or so trips to Ulster, I have never heard local architects engage in such self-protective whingeing as: 'outside practices should not be allowed to take our work' or 'government should give me that new £100m hospital' – the kind of line trotted out by so-called champions ...
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Hopkins' Manchester gallery extension makes eye-popping debut
Artist Michael Craig-Martin clearly has no time for white-box galleries. His latest work explodes across the lime and magenta walls of the entrance hall in Michael Hopkins' £35m extension to Manchester Art Gallery, which opens this month.But the eye-popping installation to mark the reopening will not survive long. It is ...
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Archive TitlesDeath of a legend
As the world's population continues to spiral, high-rise cemeteries, or at least continental-style mausoleums, could be the next big thing in final resting places.
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Archive TitlesThe other gridshell is completed
As the Weald and Downland Conservation Workshop opens to the public, another, less heralded gridshell is also being completed in Scotland.
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Ideal Cities
Ideal CitiesRuth EatonThames and Hudson£39.95This fascinating book might be an interpreted as an Awful Warning to architects who rise above themselves – who come to think of themselves not just as useful craftsmen or even artists but as moulders of society's morals and mores. History is full of their proposals ...