All Archive Titles articles – Page 147
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Jean Nouvel in Prague: Zlaty Andel
Considering how quickly this has followed the completion of Nouvel's picture and poetry-etched glass building, some sloppy translation is just about forgivable.
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Action stations
For the latest stage of the transformation of Victorian railway warehouses into the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, Austin-Smith: Lord uses unashamedly modern interventions.
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The Postwar University – utopianist campus and college
Urbanism is a dominant topic for theoretical discourse, and the university, as a microcosm of the 'idea' city, rehearses social and educational visions interpreted in physical form.
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Watch this space
Using a translucent glass box, Svante Berg has created for TV channel Kanal 5 a new open relationship with its staff and viewers.
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Sense of style
This year is a big one for Scandinavia, especially Sweden. Not only will it hold the EU presidency, 2001 is also its Year of Architecture. As political and physical links draw Scandinavia ever closer to Western Europe, architecture, always the driver in forging the national identity, is trying to establish ...
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Religious services
Building services and Buddhism are being brought together in two projects on opposite sides of the globe. Will Jones examines the innovative services of these two totally sustainable schemes.
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The ultimate partnership
Where do you find the personnel to lead a strategic alliance with an overseas firm? And can you be sure your practice will fit the culture of your new partner?
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UK - Orange unpeels new techno-home
Orange, the global telecomunications giant, has just unveiled what it claims is Europe's first intelligent home.
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US - Miami vice or virtue?
So-called 'new urbanists' Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk – architects of historicist Seaside resort in Florida – have changed stylistic track with their latest project – a masterplan for a Modernist resort.
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UK - Rogers' new tower of London
If you thought the Millennium Dome was controversial, Richard Rogers Partnership's latest building – a glittering glass and steel edifice next to the historic Tower of London – is likely to raise even more eyebrows.
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Wired for learning
The growth of the internet and distance learning in the information age is changing educational institutions. Hanscomb details the key points to consider when designing buildings for today's campuses, from laboratories to student housing.
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Showing its metal
Crouching insect-like in the western suburbs of Limoges, a new secondary school by steel construction specialist Dubosc and Landowski is a visual and technical experiment.
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League of its own
Turner Brooks Architects is best known for its residental work, but Yale University's new Gilder Boathouse has provided the practice with an opportunity to broaden its portfolio.
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Italy - Miralles in Venice
The late Enric Miralles' US$16 million plans for the restoration of Venice's docklands on the Canal della Giudecca, and the extension of the university's architecture faculty, have got the go-ahead.
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Home Swede home
The Malmö housing exhibition which opens in Sweden this spring promises a veritable smorgasbord of new buildings.
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US - Holl in Seattle
Steven Holl's recently opened Bellevue Art Museum in Seattle, Washington, is intended to be a museum with a difference: with no permanent collection, it will be focused on the way in which people move around.
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Swifter, higher, stronger
As buildings get taller, the accompanying lift technology is having to keep up. In fact it is doing more than that – moving into the realms of science fiction and the Starship Enterprise.
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In a green and high-tech land
Can a building be both intelligent and sustainable? Or do we pay an environmental price for progress? WA thinks technology may in fact be the solution, but that we'll need to change our attitudes.
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Prints of Denmark
The soaring curves of Søren Robert Lund's new print works in Slagelse reflect the speed and accuracy of the processes within.
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hungary - 'New Manhattan' for Danbue
Hungarian architect Otto Szenczi has drawn up plans for a 'new Manhattan' on a 200ha site in the former docklands in the Csepel Sziget, the island that divides the Danube to the south of Budapest, the Hungarian capital.