All Archive Titles articles – Page 166
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World service
Working abroad has never been easier. Better communications and trade mean more and more UK architects are heading overseas. But there are pitfalls as well as pleasures.
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Russia
I was based in Moscow for two-and-a-half years working on the new British Embassy there. In a sense, our experience of Russian life was atypical as we were working for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, not a Russian client. I think this protected us from the real cut and thrust ...
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Protect and serve
Working alongside the CIBSE Lighting Division's Technical Committee, the Lighting Industry Federation is currently producing a 'factfinder' which looks at the various design requirements consultants must take into account when devising lighting schemes for hazardous areas. Brian Sims pores over the main points of what ...
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Nights on the tiles
The ceramic tile business is getting competitive as Spanish producers go all out to match the dominance of the Italians. Dan Fox attended Valencia’s CEVISAMA, one of the world’s largest ceramics trade shows, to see what it might all mean to specifiers.
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Night visions
After dark, perception of any building’s form, regardless of its technical and visual gymnastics, is entirely dependent on its lighting – so it pays to keep up with the latest ideas about bringing the best out of the complex building.
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To Russia with love
The design of Ahrends Burton and Koralek’s new British Embassy in Moscow reflects the warmer, post-cold war relationship between the UK and Russia.
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Out on a limb
Check House 2, two degrees from the equator in Singapore, is no standard tropical house. KTNA Architects based the form around human movement, to embrace both the family and the site.
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Light on Tyne
A state-of-the-art £2 million ferry landing at South Shields is the first new building to grace the River Tyne since the late 1800s. WSP Lighting’s Jane Gosney has teamed up with leading illumination artist Martin Richman to light the structure, which includes a 50 m-span steel bridge, floating concrete pontoon ...
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Plant life
Harry Bulkeley Creswell’s Willans & Robinson Factory near Chester was a Pevsner Functionalist favourite.
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Lessons learned
Cartwright Pickard architects has tapped into the Scandinavian and Japanese housing markets to create its own modular construction system for the Murray Grove Housing scheme in London.
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Leading Lights
The UK’s undisputed premier lighting prizes, the National Lighting Design Awards, were handed out last month in front of an expectant audience of designers, architects and clients. Which schemes ran away with the top honours, and what made them shine out from the rest? Light & Lighting ...
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Natural justice
Christian de Portzamparc's Palais de Justice de Grasse is squeezed on to a difficult site among the dramatic hillsides and Italianate architecture of the French Riviera. Yet its fortress-like architecture has not given in to the all-pervasive Classical pastiche of the area.
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Japan
Japanese culture and etiquette are different from ours. My advice is, recognise this but don’t worry about it. You are not Japanese and the Japanese do not expect you to be like them. Indeed, most cling to the notion of their radical cultural uniqueness and are determined that you cannot ...
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The high life
Nonda Katsalidis' Republic Tower of luxury apartments in Melbourne, Australia, is very much a product of its multicultural city. It was made from Australian materials, and orientated towards the southern light, but is filled with European-style bustle.
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Light heavyweight
Hanover’s defunct World Light Fair was reborn in Frankfurt last month. Light and Building, as it is now known, eclipsed its predecessor in style, and attracted 100,000 visitors from over 90 countries to claim the crown of the world’s largest lighting and integrated systems show.
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Good grief
Fast-track funerals are a fact of life today. Haverstock Associates has demonstrated a correspondingly straightforward approach in its design of a crematorium in Telford.
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Games lesson
A new cricket school at Edgbaston by David Morley Architects and local practice Bryant Priest Newman takes on lessons learned at Lord’s.
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Playing to the gallery
The book of the television series about the building of the Tate Modern; and a useful Arts Council guide to designing gallery spaces.
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France
Most of our jobs are gained through competitions – as much as 70 per cent is public work. It’s important to check Le Moniteur – the architect’s ‘Bible’ – which publishes all the work that’s up for bid. Competitions are well run and there is a remarkable commitment to building ...
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Fitting in judgement
If there was a theme amongst the luminaire manufacturers at the inaugural Light + Building trade fair it was ‘silver, industrial aesthetic, pseudo high bay and gimbal’. With a few LED fittings, mirror projectors and new-fangled linear pendants thrown in for good measure. Following on from ...