All Archive Titles articles – Page 17
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Exit, pursued by a bear
Rafael Viñoly’s design for Leicester Performing Arts Centre strips away the divisions between actors and the public. Fortunately for nervous thespians, it can operate more traditionally too.
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Archive TitlesPint of best
Geordies are good patrons of the performing arts but they like a pint with their plays, so Waring and Netts’ unluvvielike refurbishment of the Live Theatre, Newcastle is just the ticket for a thriving community playhouse.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
For David Jubb’s first project as artistic director of BAC (Battersea Arts Centre), the whole building has been turned into an interactive theatrical experience. It’s part of a collaboration with architect Haworth Tompkins.
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Archive TitlesConservation/restoration category — Highly commended
Restoration of medieval doom board, Chippenham, Wiltshire
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Furniture category — Winner
Jerwood Sculpture Park seating, Ragley Hall, Warwickshire
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Archive TitlesYour coffee table needs...
Diller + Scofidio (+ Renfro) The Ciliary Function (Works and Projects 1979-2007), Skira Editore, £58
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Archive TitlesCOLLABORATOR!
'RIBAJ's Jan-Carlos Kucharek marches in and out of Paris to cover the RIBA 2007 conference. Read his blog here...'
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Archive TitlesTwos company
In the voluminous archives of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia there is a collection of letters with addressees’ names spelt incorrectly. No doubt Isi Metzstein joining the practice meant the mispellings piled up even faster.
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Crossing the divide
Kennedy Fitzgerald’s new arts centre for Omagh has a complex role: it’s not only a performance space but a link between High Street and river, college and town, and young and old. By Jan-Carlos Kucharek.
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Archive TitlesYou were fabulous, darling
Architects and theatre consultants sometimes fear the other will cramp their style when designing performance space. But actually they produce their best work when they collaborate.
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Keep discussion open
RIBAJ deserves praise for reviewing Hollow Land by Eyal Weizman (Books July 07), a book that describes circumstances in which architects have found it impossible to practise as disinterested professionals.
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Archive TitlesWhen the oil ran dry
Not all US presidents have been alternative energy refuseniks. In 1979 Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House roof – though Ronald Reagan removed them during his presidency.