All Archive Titles articles – Page 108
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Nitin Desai
Meet the celebrated Indian set designer who has just transformed Selfridges into a Bollywood spectacular.
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Archive TitlesA wander in virtual Brick Lane
This seems to be east London's Brick Lane. There's a queue in the bagel shop and bananas swapping hands in the market.
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Archive TitlesSuperstar wanted to boost UK's sporting chances
A superstar architect is being sought to headline a high-profile conference addressing Britain's run of sports building flops.
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Archive TitlesHow to get a Brazilian body
Shard, cigar, erotic gherkin – these nicknames only thinly disguise what we are talking about with tall buildings.
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The beauty of Milton Keynes
A previous project took him into the sewers beneath Tokyo, so Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama probably thought he had done enough slumming for the sake of his art.
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Slipping away
Scottish design is enjoying something of a renaissance, with full order books, high-quality work and a star-studded RIAS conference this month. But local architects say the feelgood atmosphere will disappear unless the Edinburgh executive turns its architecture policy into action
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30 Bridges
30 BridgesMatthew WellsLaurence King£35Just as the perfect Manolo Blahnik shoe is best appreciated by seeing it and trying it, so it is with exceptional bridges. Photos can be deceptive and you need to see the real thing. In this book, however, Matthew Wells' selection leaves you in little doubt that ...
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Futureworld 1958
By the late 1950s, the USA had more than 200 nuclear reactors in operation or on site. This aluminium beehive is New Jersey's contribution to the atomic age
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Archive TitlesA walk in the woods
Do you need a floor with that lived-in look? Try untreated timber. Herzog & de Meuron and Cukrowicz Nachbaur did and the once-pristine boards are ageing before their eyes.
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Archive TitlesTable with a view
Diners at Sydney restaurant Bambu don't have to look out to the harbour to get a spectacular view. They can gaze at Misho + Associates' astonishing cardboard canopy soaring above their heads.
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Archive TitlesReturn to Sarajevo
Seven years after the Bosnian capital disappeared from the headlines, an international coalition of politicians, architects and youth workers is attempting to drum up funds for an audacious plan to build a concert hall in the centre of the war-torn city
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Archive TitlesPerfect pitch
Japan and South Korea are not known for their footballing pedigree but architects in both countries have managed to design spectacular stadiums for the upcoming World Cup. wa gets a sneak preview of the tournament favourites
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Lost in translation
The Factories: Conversions for Urban CultureEdited by TransEuropeHallesBirkhäuserThis book profiles a selection of the 30 European cultural centres that make up TransEuropeHalles, an informal network of organisations based in converted buildings.These centres are generally run by small, local groups and range from independent schools and women's centres to theatres, circus ...
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Piano starts work on NYC library
Renzo Piano has begun design work on the refurbishment and extension of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City
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Urban jungle
Tree patterns etched onto balconies and roofs planted with grass have helped Viennese architect Delugan_Meissl bring the notion of landscape into a mixed-use block in the Austrian capital
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Italian minister set to scupper Uffizi plan
A €7m (US$6.2m) extension to the world-famous Uffizi gallery in Florence could be scrapped because a minister objects to Arata Isozaki's design
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At home in PVC
Hans Peter Wörndl, Max Rieder and Wolfgang Tschapeller have completed this apartment building in Salzburg, Austria. The 48-unit complex contains public housing and has a fibre-reinforced PVC membrane for its facade.
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Archive TitlesLessons from history
To ancient poets, Arcadia was a rural ideal. To modern-day Californians, it's a town 29km from Los Angeles and the home of a contemporary take on history: a new museum by Sparano + Mooney.
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Archive TitlesGround war
Daniel Libeskind's museum in north-west England is meant to symbolise a world torn apart by conflict. In the main gallery, that translates into a disorienting curved floor that falls away as you walk
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Archive TitlesSkin graft
On the edge of The Hague, on reclaimed land, is the new suburb of Ypenburg. At the back of the site, behind rows of humdrum family homes, is a village of pitched-roof boxes, each clad in a single material. Welcome to MVRDV's unsettling vision for domestic design.