All Archive Titles articles – Page 134
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Unusual suspect
The impact of the Finnish Embassy was a stunning start for the young team of Viiva Arkkitehtuuri. Although the world is not exactly beating a path to their door, the unassuming trio, with their shared ideals of the simple and traditional, is optimistic for the future.
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Softly, softly
Designing a floor that isn't just meant for walking on may seem a crazy idea, but it makes perfect sense to Beige Design's Tom Faulders. He talks to World Architecture about something soft, pink and seriously sensual.
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Romancing the stone
Have you ever wondered where Richard Meier got the stone for his latest white masterpiece, or how to find the perfect mosaic colours for a hotel swimming pool mural? We know where to find the answers.
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And the regional winners are...
Here we announce the winners of the Arup World Architecture Award by region.EuropeJoint winnersFinnish Embassy &Japan pavilion Hanover Expo2000Hanover, GermanyShigeru Ban Architects One of the highlights of the jury session was the glowing paper-thin Japan pavilion at last year’s Hanover Expo, by Shigeru Ban. This pavilion shares the ...
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The race is on
If you are going to Greece this summer it might be worth avoiding Athens. The city is a building site as it gears up – and not before time – for the 2004 summer Olympics.
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Hong Kong's space shuffle
Circling above the islands of the Pearl River delta, waiting to land at a crowded Kai Tak airport, used to give visitors to Hong Kong a grandstand view of an urban civilisation without parallel on earth.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is the setting for the first World Architecture Awards dinner on 22 June 2001. We provide an update on Hong Kong's ambitious plans to ensure it remains at the heart of south-east Asia and take a tour of the latest architecturally sound bars in SoHo.
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Germany: Dream museum verged on nightmare
Personal fantasies do not come much larger than having a museum for your personal art collection.
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Germany: Masters return to Leipzig
Young Berlin-based practice Hufnagel-Pütz-Rafaelian is to design the first major museum in the former East Germany since 1945.
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Italy: Genoa piers over a hill
UN Studio has won the commission to rebuild a large pier in Genoa harbour.
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Social function
The Socius of Architecture: Amsterdam, Tokyo, New YorkArie Graafland010 Publishers, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsG49.50 (softback original)192ppAs food for thought on the current status of architecture, author Arie Graafland sees architecture and society as inseparable, into which he injects the French theorists Grilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of 'socius' as an ...
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The Fuller picture
Your Private Sky. R Buckminster Fuller: the art of design science. / DiscourseEds Joachim Krausse & Claude LichtensteinLars Muller Publishers.524 pp and 320 pp respectivelyOwing to a lack of sponsorship, the Buckminster Fuller exhibition 'Your Private Sky', which was originally planned to mark the centenary of the great polymath's birth ...
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France: Silver medal for skating
Sports stadiums, museums and art galleries are the meat and drink of the modern architect but an ice rink, that is different. Grenoble, home of the Winter Olympics in 1968 now has its very own 3,500 seat, 1,800sqm rink courtesy of an innovative 'high density' design by Paris-based practice Herault ...
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France: TGV stations strike out for the sea
One of the biggest infrastructure projects in France, the third and final section of the Paris-Marseille high-speed rail link, has just been completed.
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Netherlands: Pigs might fly
Rotterdam-based bureau MVRDV has come up with a novel solution for the problem of pig farming in the Netherlands.
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Flooring
This month's product review focuses on that which is under-foot, with features on acoustic flooring, flooring innovations and the New Orleans Coverings 2001 Tile and Stone Show.
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Taking flight
Wong Tung & Partners' twin pavilions for the new headquarters of Dragonair and the China National Aviation Corporation indicate a welcome change in direction for the practice.
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Wetlands prize fighter
A world away from the voracious growth of neighbouring tower blocks, the first phase of a wetland centre exerts an influence out of all proportion to its size.
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Germany: Theatre squares up for extended role
The curtain goes up shortly on an extension to the art deco Kammerspiele theatre in Munich, designed by Austrian architect Gustav Peichl.
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Raising expectations
Raised-access flooring is standard in offices and all computer-dependent premises but you wouldn't expect to find it in the home. But everything might change, if Spanish architect Paricio & Clotet gets its way.