All Archive Titles articles – Page 175
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Chain reaction
Gone are the days of homogenised hotels where weary businessmen and tourists were wrapped in familiar surroundings. Today’s travellers are demanding individuality and affordable quality and comfort. The choice of hotels – from trendy minimalist creations to urban resorts – is greater than ever. Even the hotel chains are redefining ...
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Burning issue
New intumescent materials claim to fire-proof period timber panelled doors without compromising aesthetics.
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Confession box
Taped interviews with more than 40 architects from the post-war generation are not only yielding some remarkable life stories, but creating an oral history of twentieth-century British architecture that has never been heard before.
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Glazing's big switch
For the last 10 years, the US Department of Energy has been pouring millions of dollars into researching a new type of glazing. Electrochromics, it now asserts, represents the future of energy-efficiency in buildings. The technology can darken windows at the turn of a switch to control a building's natural ...
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England's Thousand Best Churches
England’s Thousand Best ChurchesSimon JenkinsPenguin£25Handsome has come to be one of the most subversive words in the English language. Applied to a man it has hints of boring self-absorption; applied to a woman it hints at a large nose, bigger feet and a lack of sex appeal. To call a ...
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IM Pei rises to Beijing challenge
China’s favourite son makes rare attack on Communist government
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Coming of Age
Taiwan has long sought an individual identity. For 20 years it was viewed as a temporary refuge from the communist forces in China, and its architecture was sidelined as a result. As the island matures, and the confidence of its people grows, a small group of architects is challenging the ...
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Action Man
Sunand Prasad may be the busiest man in architecture. He runs his own practice, sits on every architecture committee going and has recently been persuaded to become a CABE commissioner.
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Glass of 99
Glass has come a long way – in terms of both public perception and technology – since I M Pei's Louvre pyramid caused such uproar in 1993. Almost any architectural idea can now be expressed in glass, and it is the defining material of many of this year's most acclaimed ...
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You’re so transparent
European government buildings have made headlines in 1999, and not always for the right reasons. Few have a good word to say about the European Parliament in Strasbourg, with some brave souls even daring to criticise Foster’s revamped Reichstag. Adam Mornement looks for common denominators behind the complaints, and asks ...
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Doctorin’ the house
Houlton Taylor s medical centre in a residential street in North London suggests a way of adapting the suburban semi for new uses.
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White on white
Architecture plb's Textile Conservation Centre completes the practice's masterplan for Winchester School of Art, making it one of the most carefully considered modern campuses around.
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Surface tension
Traditional ceramic sanitaryware is facing new rivals in the form of advanced composites and coatings from science-led manufacturers. Architects and specifies will have to decide whether to stick with what they know, or to pay a little more and go with the flow...
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Realm of the senses
Knaresborough's new arts and crafts centre for the blind comfortably combines the work of two architects, but finds it harder to reconcile its public and private functions with real elegance.
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Prodigious prodigals
In 1951, two 20-something architects from the opposite sides of Europe met in Eero Saarinen’s Michigan office. Troubled times at home had given them little option but to carve out their own slices of the American dream. Since then one has won the Pritzker Prize, the other is an AIA ...
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Pre-fabulous
At the Montevetro Tower, the Richard Rogers Partnership's acclaimed residential project under construction in London, pre-fabricated cell bathrooms are being lifted into position and slotted into the structure. Dan Fox asks what this new method might mean for ceramics specifiers.