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Archive TitlesStairway to heaven
Harry Handelsman, founder of the Manhattan Loft Corporation, is the man charged with developing the Gothic masterpiece of the Midland Grand into a 245-bedroom luxury hotel. Hell may be the planning regulations, but the developer is bent on glory.
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Archive TitlesStars in their eyes
Engineering the St Pancras refurbishment took the same kind of leap of the imagination as Barlow brought to the original train shed.
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The engineer’s tale
The beautiful spaces of the Barlow Shed arose out of many constraints, not least the length of a beer barrel. In this extract from his history of St Pancras Station, Simon Bradley explains how that glorious roof came to be.
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An emission mission?
In its rush to be seen in the vanguard of the great and good, the RIBA emissions mission seems to be getting involved with over a dozen different organisations (funders, quangos, technocrats, academics etc).
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Memories of Jack Coia
I was surprised to find no response in your letters column last month to the article on Gillespie, Kidd and Coia in the November issue. I came across Jack Coia only once, when I was still pimply from school and an articled pupil in Preston in the early 1960s.
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Archive TitlesRegions to be cheerful
One of the best bits of learning I have done in the past 12 months or so, during and since my year as president-elect, has been through visiting as many RIBA branches and regions in the UK outside London as possible.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Said Houli lives in north London but gets to Paris and Brussels more than most because he happens to be a Eurostar train driver. Hugh Pearman caught him at the depot and asked him what he thought of the new place
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Archive TitlesPardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga choo-choo?
After years of stagnation, transport museums are starting to receive some investment. The London Transport Museum has just reopened after a £23m facelift, while Zaha Hadid’s £74m Riverside Museum in Glasgow started on site in November.
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Archive TitlesBombay bravura
In 1880 a breathtaking watercolour by Axel Herman Haig of the proposed Victoria Terminus at Bombay was shown at the Royal Academy. When completed seven years later, the station triumphantly realized the bravura monumentality and riotous excess the drawing promised.
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Bauhaus primer
Say what you like about Middlesbrough – and people do – you can’t fault the ambition of its new modern art and design gallery, cheekily named MIMA.
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Archive TitlesBloggin’ Norman: London to Beijing and back.
RIBAJ editor Hugh Pearman has tracked Lord Foster since he was plain Norman. Now Foster has been in practice for 40 years and the pace is still quickening. Our Editor’s blog shows why.
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Architecture of fear
I hope I’m not alone in being appalled that the RIBA section of last month’s Journal should give space for an advocate of ‘Fortress Britain’ to exhort us to make our buildings ‘terrorist proof’.
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Archive TitlesThe roof now arriving on platform 5…
… is the delayed 450m long diagrid construction from Foster+Partners for Florence’s new railway station. The combination of bold design and complex geometry should have them gawping at arrivals.
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Within you without you
Dutch practice Biq effortlessly marries masonry and modernism in its Bluecoat centre extension. Oh, the relief from all that steel and glass.
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Twist and shout
The curves and warped planes of Liverpool’s first major conference centre, by Wilkinson Eyre, will give the city something to brag about.
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Things we said today
Didn’t go to the RIBA’s Paris conference, Entente Cordiale, at the end of October?
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We can work it out
The white space on Ben Johnson’s Liverpool Cityscape represents the fastest developing area of the city.
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Liverpool
I remember the culture shock of first encountering Liverpool at an RIBA conference at the end of the 1970s.