All Archive Titles articles – Page 143
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Blonde on blonde
The Swedes take furniture very seriously, yet the Swedish furniture fair in February was small, at least when compared with rival furniture fairs in Milan and Cologne. But don't let this put you off: Stockholm has much to offer the design cognoscenti.
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Fit for anything
When time is of the essence, who can you turn to for a flawless interior fit-out? Answer– shopfitters, whose trade is increasingly moving away from its origins in retail.
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Italian accent
Although the furniture companies that flock to Milan each year like to keep new launches under wraps until the show opens later this month, RIBA Interiors has had a sneak preview of some of the best of what's on offer this year.
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Under the skin
Christoph Langhof's headquarters for the Berlin Water Company's draws inspiration from the city's rich history, while aiming to fit in and add to its traditional architectural character.
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Taking shape
In the second in our series following the construction of the Weald and Downland conservation centre, we look at the process behind the gridshell's design, and how computer modelling has progressed since the first experiments at Mannheim.
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Industrial revolution
Wilkinson Eyre's conversion of Templeborough Steelworks into the Magna science centre is designed to revive interest in both South Yorkshire and the science of industry. But is it too soon to consign our manufacturing industry to history?
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Through a glass lightly
Graphics on buildings is nothing new – think of Piccadilly Circus or Times Square. But now the approach is more subtle, with new technology allowing glass facades to carry the message.
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Working flat out
Christopher Platt's spatially intriguing extension creates an office and studio, while linking the house more closely to the garden.
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Master of doublethink
In London for the opening of his first UK exhibition, Toyo Ito talks about his new Mediathèque in the Japanese city of Sendaï which, he says, offers this generation a radical new means of architectural communication.
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Climate control
Murphy & Mackay's Climatron in St Louis – the size of the Pantheon in Rome – used Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome to enclose the world's first air-conditioned greenhouse.
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Open and shut case
With last month's revision of Part L, the focus has been on the acceptable U-value of windows. Here we look at a less-known government report that, surprisingly, gives a thumbs up to PVC, as well as the latest news on doors and products.
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Bring in the experts
The sophisticated 3D graphics we're so used to have raised expectations of building modelling. A new breed of media companies have sprung up to help the architect present its ideas to clients, planners and the public.
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New kid on the block
Rivington Street Studio's Miesian extension projecting from the front of the College of North East London should tempt potential students into its more institutional interior.
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Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture
As Charles Jencks notes in the introduction, this is an 'evolvotome, with a triple date of 1973, 1987, and 2000'.
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Architects workload survey
In the fourth quarter of 2000 workload and staffing levels climbed to new heights. Jobs in the health sector in particular surged ahead, reversing the gentle decline recorded in previous quarters.
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The end of the affair
Paternoster Square promised to go down in history as the battleground of the war between Modernists and Classicists. But now that the foundations for the new buildings are being laid, this world-famous site looks poised to slide into obscurity with scarcely a whimper of dissent or approval.
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Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House 1660-1880
Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House 1660-1880Richard Wilson and Alan MackleyHambledon & London£25It can be no coincidence that the spate of books, articles and programmes questioning the concept of Englishness has been matched by a flood of books on the design, the building, the ownership and the ...
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Spreading their wings
Airports are the key to many transport hubs. But, as cost consultant Hanscomb explains, their size and architecture is constrained by a multitude of factors, from land cost to the retail expectations of increasingly sophisticated customers.
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Pasta and Prada
If you're planning to join the fashion cogniscenti at this month's Milan's furniture fair, you'll have to be in shape. Leave your comfortable shoes at home and have a good lunch.
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Urban myth
'Century City', the first major exhibition at the new Tate Modern in London, brings together nine cities – from London to Lagos – that defined the art of the 20th century. But what does such a show tell us about the slippery notion of 'the city'?