All Archive Titles articles – Page 157
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Capital gains
The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions has decreed that, from April next year, UK-based businesses of all shapes and sizes will be eligible to claim 100% capital allowance in return for using energy-efficient lighting technologies. Is this the dawning of a new 'green' era? Brian Sims ...
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Lighting quality and its design application
Incorporating lighting quality factors as a routine part of the lighting design process, rather than applying the classic analytical tools, has been proposed as a way of ensuring that final schemes will indeed be successful. What steps are being taken to define the concept, and where exactly are we when ...
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AGI32: changing the face of design
For the most part, using lighting calculation software has been a frustrating process for designers and architects alike programs have been difficult to learn and slow to work. Getting to grips with lighting software in DOS format was time-consuming and keystroke-dependent, requiring a huge learning curve so that ...
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Paper talk - The National Lighting Conference 2000
This year's National Lighting Conference demanded something a little bit special in honour of the Millennium. In a unique partnership, the Society of Light and Lighting teamed up with the Institution of Lighting Engineers to present a joint event covering everything from fibre optics and light pipes to lighting education. ...
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Super structure
Space Grid Structures John Chilton Architectural Press £35 After an unpromising first sentence 'Architects and engineers are always looking for new ways of solving the problem of space enclosure' this book develops into a well-researched and clearly written technical description of space grid structures. It ...
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Swimming Pools
Simming Pools Philip H Perkins E&RN Spon £65 Philip Perkins is an engineer with extensive experience of pools, and an acknowledged authority regarding pool tank concrete construction. Swimming Pools purports, on its jacket, to provide 'a comprehensive treatise on the design and construction of swimming pools'. However, Perkins fails to ...
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Master of Paris
Nicholas Breach’s photographs capture the old Paris, of courtyards and gardens, and the spirit of the less popular arrondissements before the tide of gentrification washed over them.
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At the helm
As a senior officer in the Royal Navy, Richard Hastilow has seen his fair share of conflict and management problems. Good job, too; it could prove useful experience as he takes up the post of new chief executive of the RIBA.
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Net gains
The Internet has the potential to radically change the way we work, and save time and money on the way. Two new web businesses are exploiting the web’s potential for information exchange, to the benefit of both architect and client.
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Freeze frame
Not all architecture appears static: de Grussa Larkou's new Replay store in Cyprus looks as if in mid-leap.
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Hall of fame
Burrell Foley Fischer's transformation of Hampstead Town Hall into a performing arts centre, complete with state-of-the art theatre and dance studios, is the latest chapter in the building's varied history.
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Here's one I made earlier
How to design and build major projects for the public realm, well the Jubilee Line and the Lowry Centre at least. Plus, Foster on Foster and the built wonders of the Dutch.
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Pipe dreams
The 'Blade of Light' must be the only project named after its lighting strategy. The idea was made a reality by the use of light pipes, a technique becoming increasingly popular.
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Global conquest
The most wide-ranging survey of Modernism to date reveals its worldwide impact, throwing up a remarkable range of little known buildings, many never previously published.
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Between castle and crags
For a city as conservation-minded as Edinburgh, opportunities for young design-led practices to build in the city's Old Town do not come along very often. E&F McLachlan seized the moment, with pleasing results.
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Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings
Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings J Stanley Rabun John Wiley & Sons £51.95 'In many instances, existing buildings have been modified unnecessarily or even demolished due to the lack of a rational method of determining the capacities of the structural systems.' This is the conundrum that Stanley Rabun, an architect ...
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Alternative Construction
Alternative Construction Edited by Lynne Elizabeth & Cassandra Adams John Wiley & Sons £38.95 Alternative Construction presents natural alternatives to mainstream construction materials, focusing mainly on unfired earth. A wide range of earth-building techniques, appropriate to the contemporary construction industry, is covered, and other materials, such as straw bale and ...
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Architects’workload survey
This quarter has left analysts puzzled: workloads in all sectors are either suffering a downturn or flat, but, they say, this is against a background of a booming economy and low unemployment.