All Archive Titles articles – Page 132
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The speed of light
As British commuters struggle to work, their French counterparts are zipping between Paris and Marseilles on a new TGV line. Along the way, they stop at Avignon's sunny yet cool station.
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Paul Hyett
In the first of a regular column, the new RIBA president says the profession must get to grips with modern forms of procurement
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How I got started
Ken Hutt, 36, explains how he set up his own practice, M3 Architects, and came to be working on a new house for racing legend Sir Stirling Moss.I grew up in Aberdeenshire and my parents were involved in the oil industry, so there was a strong engineering background even if ...
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Fashion farm
Or how The Manser Practice turned two agricultural sheds on the Isle of Wight into a stylish base for an Italian clothing company in just four months.
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English eccentrics
For documentary photographer Tony Ray-Jones, putting real Londoners in unreal settings captured their innate strangeness and offered a view into a fantasy world.
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The odd couple
Why would an elder statesman of architecture team up with a fortysomething talent? Because they share a passion for good schools and an almost telepathic connection, say Sir Colin Stansfield Smith and John Pardey.
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Exhibition - Exploring the City: The Foster Studio
British Museum, London, Until 7 OctoberHaving stamped his identity on our consciousness like no one else, Norman Foster could make some sort of claim to the mantle of Britain's greatest living artist. So the first major museum exhibition of Foster and Partners' work is probably overdue. It is a brilliantly ...
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Chemistry set
Sørensen and Zibrandtsen's return to Cambridge should have been a triumphant affair. Does their new research centre live up to their previous award-winning work for the university?
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Making Paradise: Art, Modernity and the Myth of the French Riviera
Also, 'Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons'
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Architects workload survey
Commissions for private homes are soaring, yet many housebuilders are building fewer units than last year. The cause of this contradiction is new planning guidance that's forcing them to employ more architects and retain their services for longer.
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Streets ahead?
Ever since Lord Rogers led the urban taskforce on a high-profile visit to the Netherlands, the Dutch study tour has been de rigueur for architects and their clients. But following his experience of designing 50 homes in Liverpool, our reporter, a Dutch architect, warns that his home country is not ...
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Top 25 clients
Take a careful look at the faces on this page and if you meet one of them, don't be shy. These are the people you want to work for because they regard good architecture as crucial to the success of their buildings. Here's how we chose them.
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RIBA Journal Sustainability Award 2001
Last year's winner of the RIBA Journal Sustainability Award – Chetwood Associates' J Sainsbury store in Greenwich – changed the way people will see supermarkets forever. This year's award is set to have a similar impact as more and more architects and clients acknowledge the importance of sustainable design.
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Shedding light
Arup Campus has made use of a specially designed luminaire to combine lighting with acoustic padding and to provide an aesthetic feature at the same time. We discuss the design strategy with Malcolm Wallace of Arup Associates
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The meaning of light
In May, Mike Simpson became the new president of the Society of Light and Lighting. For his inaugural address, he gave his version of the meaning of light.
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Tackling white LED problems
LumiLeds Lighting has announced a new breakthrough in its white LED technology, claiming better white colour control and better white colour uniformity than is currently available with white LEDs on the market.The typical manner for producing white LEDs is to add phosphor doping to a blue LED. This "phosphor-converted" LED ...
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Light source keeps a low profile
According to Sylvania Lamps, its new Micro Lynx-F is the only lamp of its kind available though, as is the way with new light sources, we'll doubtless see 'me toos' appearing from the other lamp manufacturers within a short space of time.Described as the furniture lamp, which perhaps over-simplifies its ...
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Nine IALD winners
Nine projects have won awards from The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) in the Association's annual Lighting Design Awards.
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Daylight group report
The Daylight Group of the SLL met at Westminster Jubilee Line foyer in May to carry out a tour of selected new stations that use natural lighting in their designs.
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Is the CIBSE guide guiding?
The standard approach to office lighting is currently undergoing a major re-think. David Clements gives his views on the way forward.