All Archive Titles articles – Page 119
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Lifting the veil
Islamic architecture doesn't usually make the pages of the glossy design magazines. The Aga Khan's award scheme is trying to change this. But what vision of Muslim culture does it offer?
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Made in Italy
The Italians dominate the tile market, so it's no surprise that Europe's biggest show is held in Bologna every year. We trailed round the 1072 stands, tiled in everything from mosaics to giant slabs.
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Samyn pays homage
Belgian architect Philippe Samyn seems to have taken the title of Christian Dotremont's painting Space Turning Four Forms to Good Account literally when designing an office complex named after the artist and poet.
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Piano reaches for heaven in Italy
This year will see the completion of one of Peter Rice's last projects, Renzo Piano's Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church near Foggia, Italy (pictured).
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What happens next?
The Top 300 survey shows firms growing bigger but everyone knows the picture is likely to be less rosy this year. David Blackman asked leading property experts – always one step ahead of architects in the economic cycle – what the future holds.
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Half measures
The RIBA's IT guide does a great job of demystifying technology but it goes on to make a dangerous suggestion: that small practices dispense with IT consultants altogether. Would architects tell their clients to read a few books and then design their own buildings?
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Archive TitlesZaha Hadid unveils Singapore mega plan
Zaha Hadid has been busy on the international stage. The practice has just unveiled a masterplan for a huge development near the heart of Singapore (pictured) and has been chosen to design a museum annexe in Copenhagen.
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Ground Zero plan takes shape
What should happen to the 6.5ha World Trade Center site? It's a question that has been asked again and again since 11 September but, four months on, some indicators of its future are emerging.
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When Issey met Gehry
Who better to create a flagship store for fashion's master of texture and shape than architecture's sculptural superstar? The result is a mix of metal and mannequins that add up to a truly dazzling interior.
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Gehry takes on two US projects
Ever the innovator, Frank Gehry will soon get a chance to work his magic on Ian Schrager's Astor Place in New York and the Princeton University campus in New Jersey.
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Foster in global hat-trick
Foster and Partners continues its global expansion as a mixed-use development opens in Germany, ground breaking takes place on the practice's first project in Poland and proposals for a tower in New York are unveiled.
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Herzog unveils Forum
The final design for Herzog & de Meuron's Forum building was unveiled in Barcelona last month, just as work began on the foundations.
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Queensland five named
Five finalists have been picked from 174 entries to design Australia's biggest modern art institution.
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The ideas factory
Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till's latest project is a live/work, urban/rural, serious/playful space. It asks what architecture is about and offers a plethora of contradictory answers.
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Step in the right direction
Edinburgh's Old Town is opening its gates to contemporary architecture. The National Centre for Dance has made it in, but not without some fancy footwork by Malcolm Fraser Architects.
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Kollhoff designs retro tower for Frankfurt
Hans Kollhoff, of Berlin-based Kollhoff und Timmermann, has again demonstrated his affection for 1930s New York architecture – this time with a little German expressionism thrown in.
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Upstart: Fred Manson on dull design
These days, designers almost delight in justifications for inadequate work.
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In from the cold
More than a million Britons watch ice hockey or go ice skating every year. But an ice rink that works well and doesn't look like a shed is harder to pull off than a triple Salchow. Here are a few that impressed the judges …
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Classical education
Robert Adam says classicism is a language not a rulebook. His library at the University of Oxford is a conversation between the architecture of Ancient Rome, fifth-century Greece and 20th-century Sweden.
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Archive TitlesThe clash
Who would want to put a Guggenheim museum in Las Vegas? The owner of The Venetian hotel would. And who would design this collision between high art and casino culture? Rem Koolhaas of course.