All Archive Titles articles – Page 126

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    Washroom blues

    2001-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Architects specifying stylish fittings for washrooms may find that their schemes go down the pan when cleaning contractors get their hands on them. What's needed is for designers and facilities managers to talk early on in the process.

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    Blanket box

    2001-09-25T00:00:00Z

    The former East German city of Magdeburg has never seen anything like it. But a stripy covering made of aluminium is par for the course when you hire Sauerbruch Hutton to design your experimental factory.

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    Out of the Ordinary: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates

    2001-09-25T00:00:00Z

    In Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) and Learning from Las Vegas (1972), Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown wrote two of the seminal texts on architecture published in the past 50 years.

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    All together now

    2001-09-25T00:00:00Z

    In one of the hottest weeks of the summer, architects, engineers and QSs came together for Teamwork 2001's Live Week to see if technology could be used to bring about real collaboration on projects. At least one participant was sceptical – did it work?

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    Soak in style

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Attention to detail is everything when it comes to bathroom design. From swirly radiators to toothbrush holders to die for, WA lists the latest must-have accessories.

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    Plotting revolution

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    WoHa Architects' three houses do far more than meet Singapore's strict planning regulations. They give equal status to interior and exterior spaces, and make sense of an irregular, tight plot.

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    What Switzerland did next

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Stylewriters have devoted thousands of words to fashionable Swiss architects such as Herzog & de Meuron. What they failed to mention is that there is a younger generation of designers doing high-quality work. Over the next 16 pages, we meet Switzerland's new guard.

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    Mix and match

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron may be Swiss architecture's best-known export, but its latest project – a 'bubblewrapped' football stadium and spiky elderly people's home – is back in its hometown of Basel. Naomi Stungo got a sneak preview.

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    A life less ordinary

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    world architecture investigates how four architects in Singapore, Australia, the Netherlands and the UK are tackling the big issues in housing design – sustainability, density and homeliness.

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    Netherlands: House of orange reborn

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Orange is synonymous with the Netherlands to anyone who has watched its national football team and their tangerine-tinged supporters. But one Dutch graphic designer has taken the love of orange a step further, and commissioned this bright live–work space in Amsterdam.Studio Thonik cites orange as a favourite colour and MVRDV ...

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    Green shoots

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Eco-architect Bill Dunster can understand why some people have called him 'nutty'. But he is now winning mainstream acclaim for his sustainable housing development in south London and offering his urban, environment-friendly vision to Shanghai.

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    Sector focus - Housing

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    world architecture investigates how four architects in Singapore, Australia, the Netherlands and the UK are tackling the big issues in housing design – sustainability, density and homeliness.

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    Germany: Silence falls at Meschede monastery

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    New meets old in Peter Kulka's latest project, the 'house of silence' guesthouse for a Benedictine abbey in the town of Meschede.The addition to the Cloister of Königsmünster has an idyllic setting, located in an orchard of apple trees just below the main abbey building. Working with project architect Konstantin ...

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    Eternal hero

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    To celebrate the 100th issue of world architecture, we commissioned Sarah Williams Goldhagen to take a fresh look at the life and work of Louis Kahn, who would have been 100 this year.

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    Dark star

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Liechtenstein may not be on most tourists' itineraries, but the tiny principality has a world-class art collection and a museum to match in Morger, Degelo and Kerez's concrete 'meteorite'.

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    Cultural exchange

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Josep Lluís Mateo says his international work is a dialogue between north and south. His Borneo Island housing in Amsterdam is an encounter between Dutch brickwork and warm woods.

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    Country focus - Switzerland

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Stylewriters have devoted thousands of words to fashionable Swiss architects such as Herzog & de Meuron. What they failed to mention is that there is a younger generation of designers doing high-quality work. In this feature, we meet Switzerland's new guard.

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    Concerted effort

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Philadelphia's almost completed Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is more than a concert hall. It is the centrepiece of a campaign to put the city on the cultural map.

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    Out of the closet

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    'Androgynous' toilets, clear glass capsules and washing/living rooms will replace white porcelain and tiles if David Adjaye, Barber Osgerby and Dornbracht get their way. They are just some of the architects and manufacturers working to design the bathroom of the future.

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    USA: Schrager and Starck's Clift Hotel reopens

    2001-09-18T00:00:00Z

    San Francisco's Clift Hotel, an Italian Renaissance-style palace built in 1913, has reopened after a makeover by Philippe Starck and entrepreneur Ian Schrager.Located near Union Square, the hotel is the pair's eighth collaboration since the Royalton Hotel in New York, completed in 1988. As in their other projects, the public ...