All Archive Titles articles – Page 146
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Tage lanterns
Outside the new theatre in Milton Keynes, engineers and architects have collaborated to challenge conventional approaches to the design of street lighting.Tage lanterns from Urbis, with blue or opaline white acrylic canopies, have a curious influence on the scene below, creating the impression of a stroll on a cool continental ...
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Osram and Philips set up joint venture
An electronic buy-side marketplace for the lighting industry is to be established by Osram GmbH and Philips Lighting BV.
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Fibre optic lighting - the next ten years
The application of fibre optics for commercial lighting is set to change dramatically in the next few years.
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Face lift for Warren Street showroom
As Concord and Marlin come together under the Concord:marlin brand, the company has refurbished the former Marlin showroom at Warren Street in central London, while closing the well known Concord showroom at Holborn."The aim of the Lighting Centre is to provide a meeting place for all involved in the lighting ...
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'Basilica Blue' chandelier
Fibre optics have been used by Absolute Action to bring the 10ft by 5ft Dale Chihuly 'Basilica Blue' chandelier to life in the home of American art collectors Bonnie and Gil Schwartz.
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District savings bank
Financial institutions are normally associated with conservative architectural norms. The buildings are usually heavy and suggest solidity. In Bernkastel in the Moselle district, the local savings bank elected to ignore conventional norms and came up with a decidedly unconventional new headquarters complex.
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Is Neutron Jack back?
Predictions by analysts of massive job cuts in GE have been denied by the company, though GE does anticipate eliminating positions over the next few years.
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The wooden tops
The structural roofing possibilities of engineered timber, particularly in monocoque constructions, are finally being realised by architects, 60 years after they were first pioneered in aeroplanes.
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Traveller's tales
Arts and Crafts architect Robert Weir Schultz's enthusiasm for Byzantinism flourished when he won, in 1887, a travelling award. He leaves us with a legacy of built and photographic examples of the movement from around the world.
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The white stuff
There was a brief moment in the 1930s when UK Modern movement houses were world class. One of these – the Flat Roof House by Colin Lucas – has been both restored to its former glory and added to by Dennis Sharp Architects.
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The Rodin Museum, Seoul
The Rodin Museum, SeoulKevin KennonPrinceton Architectural Press£24.95This book is more than just a showcase for the Kohn Pedersen Fox-built home for Rodin's Gates of Hell and Burghers of Calais. In the opening essay, Kevin Kennon, architect of the languorously curved glass pavilion, makes a persuasive case for the role of ...
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The Making of the Museum of Scotland
As a comprehensive trawl through Benson and Forsyth's Stirling Prize nominee this account does have its merits.
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Lumber up
Increasingly complex roof forms are now possible, thanks to an engineered timber product called LVL: laminated veneered lumber. So just how is this material made?
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Looking for the white knight
As one half of Lifschutz Davidson, the design team for the Legacy bid for the Dome, Ian Davidson knows all about persuasion, publicity and the government – knowledge that should stand him in good stead as the new chairman of the awards group at the RIBA.
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Home work
'Capable of further improvement' was one critic's comment on Grey Wornum's original design for the RIBA headquarters. More than 65 years later, real changes are being proposed. The first of these, a new look Florence Hall, has just opened.
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Cultural resolution
To celebrate the centenary of Australia's federation in 1901, the National Museum of Australia opens this month in Canberra, but not without controversy about both its design and content.
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Computers for schools
A recent survey of architecture schools reveals a shocking lack of funding for IT education. This is leading to a skills shortage that is encouraging some firms to recruit greater numbers of staff from abroad.
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The overseas club
An RIBA Journal survey shows that the institute is still widely respected overseas. But as the old world order is challenged, can the RIBA's international profile survive?
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Reformed character
Buildings which once housed a harsh Christian Brothers regime for juvenile offenders are being softened and subtly incorporated into a new community development on the coast of Galway.
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Architectural Poetics
Mario Botta's career seems to have been one uninterrupted success story.