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Archive TitlesRSC pioneers tiered thrust
Planned to open in 2010, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1046-seater theatre at Stratford-Upon-Avon will be the world’s first tiered thrust auditorium (usually this format has a single seating rake).
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Performance
When architecture steps onto the stage, it invites the attention of the critics. Designing performance spaces is one thing – this issue is devoted to the subject but what about the public performance of architecture itself?
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Pool in the park
A clear and logical design, combined with high standards of detailing and workmanship, mean Formby Pool requires no other adornment. Peter Ross describes the project
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Stop it at once
Would it be too much to hope that the RIBA Journal decides not to fill its letter pages with yet more long formulaic letters from professional Middle East activists?
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Mother superior
Why is the design world overawed by ‘the mother of all arts’? Architecture isn’t the only game in town, says Grant Gibson
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Money matters
If you join the AA (as in Automobile Association, but perhaps the same would apply to the Alcoholics Anonymous) it is pretty clear what you get for your subscription, graduated in service and price.
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Archive TitlesMix master
This comprehensive catalogue of Loos’ built work shows just how radical an architect he really was, argues Charles Holland
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Archive TitlesMagic numbers
Georgian architect William Wilkins used proportional theory to design the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds. It’s debatable how much its beauty owes to this, but not that Levitt Bernstein’s restoration is thoroughly in sympathy.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Wexford
The conductor hadn’t brought his baton so architect Keith Williams improvised with a welding rod for the mock-up of the orchestra pit in Wexford’s new opera house
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Archive TitlesWhat is King’s Place?
Well, it looks like an office but underneath is a symphony hall and a home for two orchestras.
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Archive TitlesIntroduction
Not only is the Wood Awards among the most intensely judged of any I have been involved in – the judges take their site visits very seriously and spend months travelling to the far corners of the kingdom to inspect a large and varied longlist – but it has reached ...
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Heaven and hell
In the October issue you illustrate what I consider to be the essential problem with the built environment today.
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Making an entrance
The Building Schools for the Future programme may be mired in controversy, but there are architects out there who know how to design a good school.
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Semper’s encore
One of the few buildings to be admiringly named after its architect, Dresden’s Semperoper, home to the Saxon State Opera, has had a chequered existence.
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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.
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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 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.