All Archive Titles articles – Page 170
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Applying polar photometric curves
Polar curves supposedly provide a level playing field on which engineers and designers can compare the performance of different luminaires. However, the way in which facts are presented always influences how they will be interpreted – and the polar curve carries with it a number of assumptions about the use, ...
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You again...
The world looked on in awe as Buro Happold and Richard Rogers’ Partnership erected the Millennium Dome. The idea of building a canopy of such incredible scale is nothing new – but nobody had proved it could be done. WA shows you how – and why it’s so special.
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System addicts
Commercially available roofing components are increasingly geared towards providing buildings with instant signature, as projects in Sydney and Hanover suggest. Elsewhere, precision engineering of the smallest detail of a system is giving architects and clients more confidence than ever in off-the-peg specifying. World Architecture surveys the market…
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Industrial action
Five hectares of redundant industrial buildings, once the heart of a small US town, have been stripped back and transformed into performance and art spaces. Mary Pat Akers reports on how the richness of the complex’s heritage lends itself to the future.
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Double act
Husband-and-wife team Paxton Locher has ingeniously converted a 1960s Soho synagogue into the new home for the Soho Theatre Company, sandwiched between a restaurant and apartments. Imagine the pitch of the story of the Soho Theatre Company and its new premises as a Hollywood 'high concept': 'avant-garde small theatre ...
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Tomorrow’s urban fabric
Four months ago, the world’s most ambitious, most public and largest tensile structure was completed. So will the Millennium Dome prove to be the last word in fabric architecture? Or is it a statement to the world that architects had better get used to it? Dan Fox looks at the ...
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Theatre studies
At Latymer School's new arts centre, van Heyningen and Haward's trademark austere brick facades enclose a theatre of warmth and spirit.
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Station to station
As Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners’ projects – from Waterloo to Paddington – have grown in complexity, so have the demands on, and capacity of, it's modelling software.
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Sign of the times
The Kardomah Café in Manchester demonstrates the power of the neglected art of lettering, in this case by two members of the multi-talented Industrial Design Partnership.
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Power to the people
In contrast to its trademark white architecture, MBLC's latest building, a community centre in Moss Side, is a spreading colourful composition, with huge ambitions.
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A night at the Opera
An extensive £214 million rebuilding programme at London’s famous Royal Opera House culminated in a high profile reopening last December. Energy efficiency and maintainability were high on the agenda for Ove Arup & Partners’ lighting designers.
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A little light relief
Think light-emitting diodes and you picture the green back-light of your mobile phone, or the red light of your car's dashboard. Think again. LEDs have arrived in the architectural lighting arena.
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Street life
The Government's designation of the first trial sites for Home Zones could have a far-reaching impact on Britain's urban landscape, while Philips is experimenting with a project aimed at realising the "city centre of tomorrow".
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Pure Jeanius
Independent consultant Into has developed a flexible lighting solution for jeans giant Levi Strauss that marries pure retail illumination and entertainment lighting – with stunning end results.
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Growing old gracefully
Twenty years can be long time to wait before a building looks ‘just right’. Patination techniques which accelerate the weathering process of different metals help achieve the desired effect in weeks rather than years.
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Net g@ins
Whether you’re talking instant access to project-based information, or trading at the click of a mouse, the Internet is fast reshaping the lighting landscape for manufacturers and designers alike. How are the industry’s big players responding to the challenges being laid down by e-technology?
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The waiting game
January's quiz on extensions of time elicited a flood of faxes to the RIBAJ office, proving that this practice issue is one of the thorniest an architect has to deal with. With adjudication making it easier for an architect's decision to be challenged, it is even more important to get ...
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Hello, old friend
YRM's second office, like its first, was of its own design in the then obscure area of Clerkenwell. When the practice moved out two years ago the owner, a fast-growing fashion business, invited it back, a commission which proved particularly satisfying.
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Hospitals and holistic lighting design
The lit environment in any hospital, where lives may be at risk, has to be first class. Scheme designs must account for general amenity lighting as well as critical visual tasks. In last September's Light & Lighting1, the Building Research Establishment's (BRE) Mike Perry and David Loe outlined the results ...
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Shady dealings
Daylight may provide a constant variation in the intensity, pattern and colour of light in a building, but if a scheme design is ill-conceived then solar glare can be a major problem for end-users. Light & Lighting evaluates the most commonly-used glare control techniques.