All Archive Titles articles – Page 177
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Capital ideas
The UK branch of the International Association of Lighting Designers has put forward detailed proposals for improving public space lighting in London, encompassing the relighting of buildings, pedestrian routes and the city's various 'gateways'. Light & Lighting examines the main points.
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Big Mak
Love him or loathe him, you can’t get away from Imre Makovecz. In much the same way that Oscar Niemeyer continues to cast a spell over Brazilian architecture, Makovecz is still the point of reference for every architect and every architectural talking point in Hungary.
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The Big Labinski
One man, more than any other, has been responsible for the creation of stadiums as superior “mousetraps”. Since the merger with Lobb Sports Architecture Ron Labinski of HOK Sport has presided over the largest and most significant design firm of the world’s stadiums: HOK + Lobb, architect of Stadium Australia. ...
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Building to bid or bidding to build?
Countries are lobbying for the honour of hosting the 2006 soccer World Cup, hoping to emulate the positive effect the 1998 event had on French sporting and social health. The symbol of the “tricolour” nation’s success was the Stade de France, but as the competition to host these events ...
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Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv Joachim Schlör Reaktion £19.95 A city without history, a city erected on sand, a city built by youth ('the older folk must all be imported' stated one citizen in the early 1930s), a city which lives in the present; early descriptions of Tel Aviv emphasise the transitory character ...
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Artistic impressions
The refurbishment of Liverpool's Tate Gallery and the relighting scheme for a Moroccan King's mausoleum – two distinctly different projects, but with one overriding aim. To show feature lighting at its very best.
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Walking on air
Watch your clients' eyes light up when you talk to them about specifying flooring: glass floors are the current trophy detail. No longer exclusively the domain of high-powered offices or retail spaces, they are being increasingly requested on domestic projects.
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A family affair
Sir John Soane did not simply want to be one of England's greatest architects, he wanted to found an architectural dynasty. But, as a new biography of Soane reveals, such parental ambitions caused him nothing but unhappiness
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A glass act
The CIBSE Applications Manual Window design, published way back in 1987, has been crying out for an overhaul. Right on cue, Daylighting and window design is about to see the light of day. Brian Sims previews the Institution's revised guidelines for architects and designers.
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Serious about bathrooms
With the opening of three new hotels in Germany, and the Berlin flagship designed by Rafael Moneo, Hyatt has rethought the design of its bathrooms, incorporating Asian-style sanitaryware and layout. World Architecture looks at how careful choice of bathroom furniture contributes to the grand bathing concept.
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England’s masterpiece
The New Wembley, London, UK. By Word Stadium Team. Completion 2003
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Stadiums – Understanding the opportunities provided by Hanscomb
The balance of profitsThere is a growing recognition that stadiums are more than a place of assembly. They provide a complicated overlay of revenue opportunities. This fundamental paradigm shift has ramifications for stadium planning and design, and means that some existing venues could become outdated. Sponsorship (stadium naming rights) and ...
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MR8: dichroic lamps with a difference
Lighting designers and architects know all about Osram, GE Lighting and Philips Lighting – the world's top three lamp manufacturers. But what if the same designers were asked to name the next biggest concern. BLV? No. Sylvania? No. In actual fact it's Iwasaki, the Japanese manufacturer which accounts for over ...
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RIBA awards 1999
This year's awards jury have toured the length and breadth of the UK to search out the country's best new buildings. We ask the jury chairmen what is that elusive winning quality they are really looking for.
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The Birth of Modern London: the development and design of the city 1660-1720
The Birth of Modern London: the development and design of the city 1660-1720 Elizabeth McKellar Manchester University Press £45 Lawyers are said to be the only winners from property and building litigation ('the old black crow sat on the oak' etc ) but there can also eventually ...
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Station to station
Canada Water was never meant to have the glamour of others on the Jubilee Line extension, but together with a new bus station it is far from being the poor relation.
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Tall order
At Giraffe, a new restaurant in Central London, architect Stiff + Trevillion sticks its neck out and fuses bold colours and patterns to suit the eclectic cuisine.
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Shining Lights
UK-based practices including the Lighting Design Partnership and Jonathan Speirs & Associates scooped major prizes at this year's IALD-sponsored International Lighting Design Awards.
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Temple of learning
Australia's most eccentric and successful architect, Glen Murcutt, teaches some valuable lessons in the architecture of dignity and restraint in his award-winning Arthur and Yvonne Boyd education centre on the Shoalhaven River, three hours from Sydney.
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Triple jump
Soon after Ove Arup director Chris Wise left to take a ‘sabbatical’, he was followed by two other project directors. Now the three engineers have set up their own practice, Expedition.