All Archive Titles articles – Page 15
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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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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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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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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 TitlesJust the ticket
Chapman Taylor had to tread very carefully in its retail fit-out of the station undercroft, and its attention has paid off. Photographs: Paul Childs
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Archive TitlesMines a large one
The original St Pancras Station was an inspired collaboration between architect and engineer. A similar pairing has delivered its 21st century incarnation.
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Love me do
Disappointing, to say the least, that in the December issue of the RIBA Journal, your focus on Liverpool has managed to completely ignore the work being carried out to regenerate the commercial business district of the city at St Paul’s Square and Pall Mall.
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Archive TitlesWho was Rowland Mason Ordish?
A very talented Victorian engineer, that’s who, and he deserves a lot more credit than he generally gets for the design of the great St Pancras train shed, working with the Midland Railway’s engineer, William Henry Barlow.
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St Pancras
If ever there was an argument against the expedient razing of fine old buildings, London’s St Pancras Station is it.
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Archive TitlesThe president prepares a tongue-lashing
In a draft for his 1873 presidential address to the RIBA, as he completed his Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras, Sir George Gilbert Scott rails against competitions and his fellow architects.
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Archive TitlesTrack record
Racing cars and yachts are the main users of FRP, fibre-reinforced polymers. But it could be coming soon to a train line near you. Parsons Brinckerhoff has just completed the first-ever self-supporting FRP bridge over the mainline railway at St Austell, Cornwall (pictured).
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Riparian rites
Thank goodness London is at last learning to appreciate its waterways once more
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When in Rome
We still all badly miss our fellow architecture critic Giles Worsley, who died of cancer in 2006, aged only 44. But now a generous travel fellowship has been set up in his name. Giles felt that architectural history needed to be better taught – and that means Italy.
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Station to station
The Dutch appreciated the value of large archives when few did, and this amazing book is the result, says Margaret Richardson
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Who does he think he is?
When I looked at the end of Grant Gibson’s piece in last month’s issue to find out why this man had been granted a whole page twice in consecutive months, I discovered he described himself as a journalist and a party-goer. I’m sure Richard Meier is quaking in his boots. ...
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All things must pass
Sir Basil Spence was a talented draughtsman and knew how to get the work, says Richard Murphy. But the architecture, hmmm
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Back in the US, back in the US…
I am in Boston at the invitation of RIBA Council member Debbie Bentley and the New England chapter of RIBA-USA to speak about climate change and sustainability at the annual Build Boston convention.
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Brief encounter
Liverpool’s win as Capital of Culture is in part thanks to the activities of the A Foundation which seeks to boost the city’s regeneration through contemporary visual arts. Curator Fiona Boundy talks to Jan-Carlos Kucharek
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Your coffee table needs...
Villages of VisionGillian Darley, Five Leaves Publications, £14.99Darley’s reissued 1975 classic is still an excellent dissection of the ideas and realities of visionary design and social thinking. The title suggests the picturesque but Darley covers the whole range including modernist experiments such as the Crittall village of Silver End. If ...