All Archive Titles articles – Page 127
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France: Miniature dream homes sold for charity
Houses designed by Jean Nouvel, Bernard Tschumi, Odile Decq, Renzo Piano Building Workshop and a host of other architects have been auctioned off at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris.
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Germany: Sauerbruch Hutton's candy stripes
Sauerbruch Hutton has transformed Magdeburg's Hochschule into a wildly coloured 'experimental factory'.The Hochschule, a research institute where academia and industry meet to develop, test, produce and market new technologies, has been swathed in corrugated aluminium painted in stripes of pink, orange and light blue.The Anglo-German architect won a Europe-wide competition ...
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USA: Three race for California transport HQ
Thom Mayne, Rem Koolhaas and Benedetta Tagliabue, the widow of Enric Miralles, have been shortlisted in a design-and-build competition for the California Department of Transportation's new regional headquarters in Los Angeles. The three firms were chosen from six semi-finalists by Richard Koshalek, former director of the Los Angeles Museum of ...
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Cabin fever
Bearth & Deplazes is not just a 'mountain' practice. But when it designed a new weekend retreat in Fanas, it was able to draw on its relationship with the landscape to create a cabin that perfectly complements, yet also adds to, its surroundings.
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Kyoto or bust
Architects have a key role to play in helping governments meet their Kyoto Protocol obligations. But to really tackle carbon emissions, they will have to develop more radical climate-responsive architecture.
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USA: New bridge over muddy waters
The Mississippi snakes under umpteen bridges on its way from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico. And soon there will be one more, the I-70 crossing between St Louis, Missouri, and East St Louis, Illinois.The monumental cable-stayed bridge, designed by Rosales Gottemoeller and Associates, was jointly commissioned by the Illinois ...
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Dream boat
Interior commissions come in all shapes and sizes, but not many of them float. Here's how Sydney architect Iain Halliday created a sleek living space for a 53-foot yacht.
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Boarding house rules
It certainly does at St Hilda's School in Perth, where Jones Coulter Young has abandoned the traditional dormitory layout to create an apartment block for teenagers.
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Let the games begin
Every sporting legend has to start somewhere. And in Bétrix & Consolascio's school sports hall, the young people of Zug have a colourful and inspirational building to launch world-beating careers from.
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Products - Bathrooms
'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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Germany: Wilford's back in Braun
Michael Wilford & Partners has just completed this DM26m (US$12m) European headquarters for pharmaceuticals giant Braun.The triangular-shaped building is the latest in a series of Wilford-designed structures for Braun's site on the outskirts of the city of Melsungen, near Frankfurt. The company also masterplanned the site in 1997. Like the ...
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France: To bring light into the units, parts of the upper floors are cut away.
Residents have started moving into Herzog & de Meuron's first Paris project, an innovative apartment building in the 14th arrondissement.
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Germany: Austrian embassy smashes protocol
Hans Hollein's new Austrian embassy may be in the heart of Berlin's diplomatic quarter but it shuns the gravitas traditionally associated with diplomatic life. With its curvaceous walls and barrel roof covered in copper scales, it is more playroom than ceremonial palace. It is clad in a seemingly whimsical mix ...
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Australia: Ship of the desert
Transplanting shipbuilding techniques to one of the driest places on earth does not sound particularly sensible. But the heavy-duty welding methods used to construct ships' hulls were ideal for the fabrication of the new visitor centre in the Karijini National Park in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia.Project architect ...
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UK: Arup plans non-wobbly London bridge
On the south side of the River Thames sits Battersea Power Station, London's most famous derelict building. It has been the focus of much architectural debate ever since another dilapidated power station just along the river was converted into the Tate Modern. The latest proposal is not for the power ...
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Canada: Wood works for Toronto architect
Canadian architect Salter Farrow Pilon is breaking new ground by developing two health centres that use wood as a primary structural element. In the 63,000m2 Thunder Bay Regional Hospital, the wood structure evokes the railway bridges of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The design of the 42,000m2 Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga ...
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UK: Conran anchors in Edinburgh port
When is a ferry terminal not a ferry terminal? When it's a retail and leisure complex designed by Conran & Partners and Keppie Architects. Ocean Terminal is the centrepiece of a scheme to regenerate Leith Port in Edinburgh. It sits on the south-eastern side of the city's western harbour in ...
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France: Big names to design Alsatian social housing
The city fathers of the Alsatian town of Mulhouse have believed in the social benefits of good architecture since the mid-19th century. Now the town's stock of affordable housing is to be expanded in the most radical fashion.The Mulhouse Society of Worker's Towns has assembled an architectural dream-team to create ...
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Just add water
Time was a washbasin was a bowl that held water. These days, it's a designer accessory. Will Jones checks out some of the most stylish and surreal sinks around.Mixed messageWhether porcelain, glass, metal or wood, sanitaryware tends to be made from a single material. But Sottini has abandoned this principle ...
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Australia: Architect unveils home for Aborigines
A prototype house, created specifically with the needs of Australian Aborigines in mind, is to tour outback communities in New South Wales at the end of the year.Designed by Sydney architect Peter Myers, the 'Knockabout Walkabout' house is a 13.5m by 3m house designed to be portable (it can be ...