All Archive Titles articles – Page 162
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Shooting star
Zaha Hadid is the ultimate celebrity architect, with a reputation for being difficult, an anti-establishment image and famous lack of built projects. On the eve of her first UK exhibition, she is looking forward, not backwards.
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Railhouse rocks
The revival of London's Great Eastern Hotel, a classic of 19th century railway architecture, required skill and not a little patience.
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The quiet revolutionary
While the UK CAD software market is dominated by AutoCAD and Microstation, the rest of Europe has been captivated by the totally integrated Allplan. But will it catch on over here?
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Pulling together
Interviewing everyone from the chairman to the tea lady helped DEGW create the required dynamic space for Ove Arup's new Hong Kong office.
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Private viewing
Brookes Stacey Randall’s conversion of Powell and Moya’s former office in Chelsea into a private house for an art collector combines fitness for purpose with decadence and extravagance at their hedonistic best.
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Pools winner
Innovation in sports facilities has not been limited to Homebush Bay. Anne Susskind tours the Cook and Phillip Centre, Sydney's biggest 'Olympic' project.
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Media mogul
In the age of globalisation, few architects have acumulated air miles like Ken Sowerby. Over the past 10 years he has undertaken major projects in 13 countries on six continents. Adam Mornement met world architecture's best-kept secret.
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Mass production
Through mass availability of photographs of prefabrication, and other ‘modern’ architectural ideas, the RIBA hoped to encourage Modernism as the dominant post-war aesthetic.
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Production line
First there were designer babies. Then came designer baby clothes. Avent's new headquarters in Suffolk is the ultimate: a designer factory for designer baby products.
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Spain Libeskind thinks small
Daniel Libeskind’s smallest commission to date has broken ground in Puerto Andratx, on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.Studio Weil, a US$720,000 exhibition space and workshop for American painter and sculptor Barbara Weil is Libeskind’s first personal commission. The Berlin-based architect has designed everything from the furniture to the landscape scheme.The ...
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Just landed
Three new space-age buildings with ambitious new cladding concepts have just opened in Europe.
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Inside knowledge
There’s very little architecture that doesn’t involve an element of interior design. Here Hanscomb provides a checklist for the design of offices, restaurants and hotels to reflect our choice of projects in this report.
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Healthy options
Architects are making hay while the sun shines on Western economies, but however much we want to believe otherwise, those economies remain cyclical. Ray Kogan thinks that when recession hits, preparation leads to salvation.
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Gin palace
Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson assured New York's Seagram building a place in the history books. Some 40 years later the re-design of its Brasserie fell to a relative newcomer, Diller + Scofidio.
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Game on
Sydney, host city for the 2000 Olympics, has been gearing up for its big moment with the largest building programme in Australia’s history.
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Glazing out in front
Spectacular glazing innovations seem to have made cladding advances the preserve of the Europeans. World Architecture looks at some of the best solutions of the last year.
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Financial times
The 2000 RIBA Employment and Earnings Survey reveals a healthy picture, at least if you work in London or the South-east, where average salaries are up 9 per cent. In the rest of the UK, however, it’s a different story.
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Extraordinary
Why would you ask a mountaineer to speak to a room full of construction industry professionals? This question was on the lips of many of the delegates at South Africa’s principal property convention, Procsa, in Durban at the end of May. The formula for all these industry conventions is tried ...
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Are you experienced?
‘Many generations of complexity beyond Bilbao,’ is how its structural engineer describes Frank Gehry’s Experience Music Project. The claim is no exaggeration. From Seattle, Steve Daniels tracks the evolution of the architectural event of the year.
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Religious education
Stephenson/Bell’s reconstruction of a derelict church school house into a design-conscious nursery is the latest element in Hulme’s urban regeneration.