All Archive Titles articles – Page 140
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Seaside special
The competition to find the architect for a new £7 million arts centre in Margate to commemorate JMW Turner reveals the difficulties of both satisfying an anxious client and attempting to foster new architectural talent.
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Pleasantville
Maccreanor Lavington's latest scheme at Leidsche Rijn – part of the huge residential expansion of Utrecht – uses vernacular forms and rural themes to revive the long-neglected genre of the suburb.
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Max power
To some, the maverick figure of Max Fordham may seem a surprising choice of CIBSE president, a post he takes up this month, but to others it will be a welcome breath of fresh air.
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Odd man out
Tony Fretton, one of the UK's most influential but anti-establishment architects, is to have a retrospective at the RIBA this month. But don't let it give you any fixed ideas about the nature of his work, or the man himself.
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The missing link
Typical of the small, ideas-based competitions that tend to dominate in the UK is this, by client Birmingham City Council, to design a pedestrian link bridge between two quarters, previously separated by a six-lane road.
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It's a wrap
The increased popularity of cladding and curtainwalling is a mixed blessing to the construction industry.
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Making an exhibition of itself
Many hoped that architecture would take centre stage in the Royal Academy's ambitious plans for the former Museum of Mankind which it bought earlier this year. But at a meeting last month to discuss the provision of architecture displays in London, such hopes were quickly dashed.
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More than skin deep
Multiple skin facades are the height of green respectability in mainland Europe, but UK architects and clients have been slower to understand their benefits. Since they can cost twice as much as conventional solutions, life cycle analysis can be the best way to convince sceptical clients.
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Esprit de corps
Real collaboration in the construction industry is rare, despite the Egan report. One initiative aiming to change all this is Teamwork, which unites architects, engineers and QSs via technology, especially 3D models.
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Heart of class
Maguire and Co's arts and sport block for Dormston School in the Black Country provides a new heart for the school, while its form brings together the disparate elements of both the school and the surrounding community.
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Modern British
Stephenson Bell has transformed a 1960s office building into the latest place to see and be seen on central Manchester's burgeoning restaurant and bar scene.
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Between two stools
Architects' cross-over into bridge design is a relatively recent phenomenon, one exception being Reginald Cuthbert Fry, seen here 100 years ago demonstrating the strength of his system with a rather unusual model.
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Architecture: the Critics'Choice
It seems unlikely that any of the contributors to Architecture: the Critics' Choice needed to do much more than dust off their lectures notes.
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Photovoltaics and Architecture
Comprehensive and authoritative, this book is essentially a hard sell for solar panelling.
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Serge Chermayeff: Designer, Architect, Teacher
Serge Chermayeff: Designer, Architect, TeacherAlan PowersRIBA Publications£25'He knew all the grand and theatrical people and was always out a lot during the day. It seemed it was Mr Mendelsohn who did the solid work on the pavilion' – Joan Ridge, secretary in the Mendelsohn and Chermayeff office.'Serge had NO ...
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Urban warriors
Since the 1985 earthquake, social housing has been confined, in the most part to the suburbs. Now, in an attempt to bring it back to the centre, a consortium of architects, developers and planners have re-engineered an old cement works, and the land use around it, into housing, parks and ...
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Shooting at statues
Somebody once said that history is something you make, not something you keep: a thought to bear in mind when considering the recent outburst of iconoclasm that had Afghanistan's ruling Taleban unleashing anti-tank missiles, artillery shells and dynamite upon religious artifacts, including the famous 1500-year-old Buddhist statues at Bamiyan. The ...
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Resumption of service
The Jewish population of Kassel in Germany – newly swelled with emigrants from former communist countries – has a new synagogue and community centre, by Alfred Jacoby.
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US - Swiss roll up for Pritzker Prize
At a ceremony this month at Monticello, the Virginia house Thomas Jefferson (US president and architect) built for himself, Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron will be presented with US$100,000 and the 2001 Pritzker prize – the most glittering architecture award.
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Up and oval
On a tight corner plot, the elliptical form of Torre Siglum provides much-needed office space and an image of prosperity for the southern area of Mexico City.