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Experience or Interpretation
Experience or Interpretation Nicholas Serota Thames & Hudson £7.95 This small book is the text of a lecture on 'the dilemma of museums of modern art' given four years ago by Tate director Nicholas Serota. The dilemma in question is how to display art, and the changing relationship between ...
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Hvezda housing development
Soon after the end of the Second World War, in the early 1950s, Prague's historic centre, in the Vltava (Moldau) valley, began to be encircled by housing estates. Such an extensive construction programme was required to accommodate both the influx of people from the countryside, brought about by new job ...
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Designing Galleries
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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Federation Square debacle
“Shards” debate which revives memories of Opera House fiasco
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Federation Square debacle
“Shards” debate which revives memories of Opera House fiasco
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Lighting in offices: the comfort factor
Are the illuminance levels currently being set by lighting designers those that are actually desired by building occupants, or should the greater emphasis be placed on providing a minimum illuminance along with more effective control systems? David Carter, Tam Moore and Antony Slater examine the results of extensive studies carried ...
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Closed quarters
In a country as densely populated as the Netherlands, privacy and architectural individuality can be hard to find. The Borneo Houses in Amsterdam’s reclaimed docklands, are MRVDV Architects’ answer.
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The Mall, Cribbs Causeway
Anchored by chain stores Marks & Spencer and John Lewis, The Mall at Bristol's Cribbs Causeway provides 70 000 m2 of top quality retail space. A multi-disciplinary team from BDP and Hoare Lea & Partners was tasked with designing this shopping behemoth's m&e engineering – including a lighting scheme ...
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Blade of Light: The Story of London's Millennium Bridge
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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Bending the rules
RGR Architects didn't let the usual budget restrictions of public housing restrict its scheme near Seville, Spain, which mixes the vernacular with rational modern form.
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Steeling beauty
As many of the UK’s millennium projects reach completion and throw open their doors to the public, RIBAJ gets a handle on one of the finer details.
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Art history
This month sees an unprecedented number of new or revamped galleries opening in London, all of which respect the past while looking ahead to the future.
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Art of the Matter
Lighting designers are increasingly using coloured light to enhance planes and surfaces, adding much-needed depth and layering to building interiors. Is the adoption of coloured light on such a grand scale an attempt to stake its claim as the newest form of decorative art?
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Art history
This month sees an unprecedented number of new or revamped galleries opening in London, all of which respect the past while looking ahead to the future.
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Whose property is architecture?
Property fair MIPIM is home to big buck developers and multi-disciplinary design giants, a place where US$10 billion moves during three days’ frenzied dealing and networking. So why were Wolf D Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au, Massimiliano Fuksas and Christian de Portzamparc there?
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Young British Architects
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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How important is IT to architects?
A recent survey looking at how the construction industry uses information technology came up with some useful data on what benefits and problems IT brings to architects.
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Arch beacon
Maurice Brill Lighting Design has won a competition run by English Heritage to light up London’s renowned Wellington Arch and Angel of Peace statue on Hyde Park Corner. Brian Sims talks to Maurice Brill and Mark Ridler about the scheme design.