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Books received
Bank Builders Edwin Heathcote Wiley-Academy £50 For a building type that started with Michelozzo and Alberti, and now exercises Foster, Gehry and Botta, banks are remarkably under-researched. Edwin Heathcote's Bank Builders begins to redress the balance, collating nearly 50 recent banks by 23 architects. Many are familiar, and they are ...
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Chromatic light sources: the relationship between luminance and brightness
Research to date suggests that strongly coloured light is perceived as being brighter than white light of the same photometric luminance, and that recognised photometric tests may be inappropriate for measuring and quantifying coloured sources. Karen van Creveld reports on a series of simple laboratory-style experiments aimed at providing some ...
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The lightness of being
An enjoyable biography of Sir Hugh Casson, best remembered for his work on the Festival of Britain; and a survey of French country houses.
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Blown away
In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes may hardly ever happen, but even in our mild weather conditions, wind tunnel tests are valuable in determining how structures behave in, and affect, their local environment.
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Fairground attractions
RIBAJ trawled the exhibition stands and showrooms at the recent Milan Furniture Fair to bring you the latest and best new designs. Together they are published in our first ever Milan review.
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Electronic Arts hq, Chertsey
The flagship £20 million UK home for American computer games giant Electronic Arts was personally styled by architect Lord Norman Foster to set new standards in layout and services design. A state-of-the-art mixture of open-plan and cellular offices on top of defined public spaces demanded a similarly forward-thinking lighting solution ...
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Tate of the Art
Architect Herzog & de Meuron’s £134 million transformation of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s Bankside Power Station has provided a fitting home for Tate Modern – already established as one of the world’s foremost art museums. Lighting the Tate’s vast 155 m-long Turbine Hall, not to mention the galleries and exhibition ...
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The world architects
On the occasion of World Architecture’s redesign, Adam Mornement takes a behind-the-facade glimpse at the four breeds of global architect. Any resemblance to architects alive or deceased is entirely coincidental.
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Aquamarina
Massachusetts-based waterfront specialist Cambridge Seven Associates has completed the Middle East’s first aquarium and IMAX® theatre, blending the latest technology with Kuwait’s aquatic heritage.
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Ansorg: light solutions from Germany
Luminaire manufacturer Ansorg has cultivated a solid reputation for its lighting systems. Developed in close co-operation with leading engineers and architects, the company’s inventive direct/indirect fixtures, spotlights, wallwashers, suspended fittings and downlighters have been specified in several prestigious retail-based projects throughout the UK. Not content to rest on ...
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All the fun of the fair
This year's highlight of the furniture calender – the Milan Furniture Fair – was illuminated with flashes of inspired design or new technology, but didn't have enough "wow".
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Adapt and survive
Is the Clients Advisory Service there to serve architects or clients? Confusion about its exact purpose persuaded the RIBA to take a long, hard look at exactly what direction the CAS should head in the future.
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Read all about it
Devised by provocative architect Alsop & Störmer, the spectacular Peckham Library is playing a key part in regenerating this long-underpriveleged area of south east London. The building’s outlandish forms and finishes have been brought to life by an eye-catching lighting scheme – one that helps banish preconceived ideas of libraries ...
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Fuksas’ good fight
Massimiliano Fuksas thinks architects are losing their grip on reality. His theme as director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens this month, is “The City - Less Aesthetics, More Ethics”. Dan Fox speaks to Fuksas, and looks at some responses to his impassioned plea for architects to start ...
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Israel Rem Koolhaas wins Pritzker 2000
Rem Koolhaas (56) has become the first Dutch winner of the US$100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (Rotterdam) picked up the award at a 29 May presentation at Jerusalem's Archaeological Park. He is the 22nd Prizker Prize Laureate."Koolhaas is a generation-spanning talent, with a ...
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Zimbabwe
Traditional buildings skills in stone laying, woodworking, wood carving, thatching and plastering are very good in Zimbabwe and contractors are more willing than those in the UK to experiment with new building methods. We arranged for bricks to be manufactured on site. Not only were these cheaper, they would have ...
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US
Your first business trip to the US is likely to be a little disconcerting. Beware of assuming that smiles and warm handshakes are anything more than the grease to oil the wheels of communication. Americans, in my experience, do not know how to tell you that they think your work ...
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Unfinished symphony
Which was the first of Europe’s former Soviet satellites to house a Frank Gehry original? Where else can you find Cubist architecture? Which world capital has an architect for a mayor? The answer to all three is, of course, Prague. But the existence of such an architectural heritage does not ...
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Singapore
In 1991 I worked in Singapore for Lee Sian Teck. He often rewarded a successful client presentation by leaving a large jar of caviar on my drawing board. One morning, despite apparent continuing satisfaction with my work, the caviar stopped arriving. I later learned I had broken an unwritten code ...
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Walk on the wide side
Widespan enclosures have always been considered an efficient way of covering large areas. Now, attention-grabbing lottery-funded projects could reverse any perception of these structures as merely temporary.