All Archive Titles articles – Page 179
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Handle with care
Ironmongery may seem like an insignificant part of a £3 billion project. But nowhere more so than on the Jubilee Line Extension does door hardware have to perform such a vital and complex safety function.
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Knot landing in Canberra
Melbourne practice Ashton Raggatt MacDougall (ARM), in association with Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, last month won the competition to design the US$100 million National Museum of Australia. The museum forms the symbolic heart of the massive government-funded Acton Peninsula Development (APD). When complete, the APD will also incorporate facilities ...
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New buildings and projects in Midwest USA Ground control
This year’s recipient of the AIA’s Architecture Firm Award, Chicago practice Perkins & Will first achieved recognition 63 years ago as an architect of educational facilities. It has since flourished in the world of institutional, public and corporate buildings, with projects in 49 states and 38 countries. With the recently ...
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Ezra Stoller: Building Blocks
Building BlocksErza Stoller: Building BlocksPrinceton Architectural Press£14.95reviewed by David BradyHow may we be said to 'know' buildings? In some cases, it can be from direct experience, in others from published descriptions, maybe drawings. Ultimately, though, ever since Fox Talbot got going with photos of his house, Laycock Abbey, in 1840, ...
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The myth of the great Balkan rebuilding
Although architects everywhere have more or less given up waiting for the wall of money that was supposed to finance the reconstruction of the Balkans after the Kosovo crisis, it is interesting to look at the reasons for its non-appearance. As late as last June NATO was promising that $32 ...
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Underneath the arches
As a retail opportunity, London's new leisure attraction dedicated to wine could work, but promises of dramatically themed rooms to help tell the story of the UK's favourite tipple fail to live up to expectation.by Amanda Baillieu
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Light roads ahead
A revolutionary lighting system, currently being trialled in the Netherlands, allows traffic to switch from two to three lanes or more in peak periods. Brian Sims examines the latest application for fibre optics and LEDs.
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Heavens above
A new suspended ceiling system from North America is about to arrive in the UK, and could make it easier for architects to use curves when designing ceilings.
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Tales from the riverbank
Hawkins Brown's mix of new-build and refurbishment for a housing project on the bank of the Thames is the practice's first speculative development, and one which had to marry social ideas with market reality
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Love, love me do
One of the iconic buildings of the 1960s, RMJM's Commonwealth Institute, is standing empty awaiting a future.
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Let there be light
The provision of efficient and cost-effective lighting, both natural and artificial, is a major factor in avoiding sick building syndrome
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Home rule
The effortlessly simple look of Skywood – designed by its architect owner in Home Counties green belt – belies a feat of complex construction and a faith in modern materials.
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Euro star
Unlike his colleagues in the museum world, Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has no permanent base, but spends his time travelling across Europe with his mobile phone. He is about to make his mark in London with an exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum.
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Endangered species
In July the RIBA published 'Meeting the Challenge', a strategy document for architects and architecture for the next five years. Here Allen Cunningham, who stood down from RIBA Council last month, argues that in contemporary society historic institutions have no absolute right to exist and, furthermore, ...
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Dear Tony,
You asked for my confidential political assessment of Richard's report 'Towards an Urban Renaissance'. Here it is, with a flagged copy. Note its resemblance to Ruthie's River Cafe Cook Book Two (same yellow cover, similar lettering) which you and Cherie ...
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Concrete couture
Concrete cladding doesn't have to be the conservative option. New printing techniques suggest a revival of ornamentation in architecture.
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Travelling companions
As a seasonal departure from our usual book review pages, RIBA honorary fellows reveal what they'll be reading over the summer.