All Archive Titles articles – Page 182
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There’s no place like dome
The Millennium Dome in the UK has attracted many unflattering descriptions, including “just a big flat pancake”, but in terms of its functional design, it is a triumphant success; and beautiful in the way that suspension bridges are beautiful. This report traces the evolution of the notorious project.
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The 02 Centre
Lighting architect Jonathan Speirs & Associates' scheme design for the 26 000 m² 02 Centre boldly mixes daylighting with a host of innovative solutions for electric light sources.
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Special effects
Simple devices such as sliding panels and an oak ledge are the key to the transformation of the top floor of a west London flat.
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Reach for the sky
Loft conversions usually make the most of a small space, but, for the owners of this Hampstead house, the huge loft has become a bolt hole to escape the kids and an ingenious way of reaching the stars.
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Rough and smooth
Fittingly, for an engineering firm, Buro Happold's new office in London's Fitzrovia combines functional, modern engineering details within a 19th-century stone building.
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Virgin territory
Echo Sounder's new lounge for Virgin Atlantic at Tokyo airport offers a contemporary take on Upper Class luxury.
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Tapping into tourism
Approximately 80 per cent of construction in Cuba is in the tourist sector. This investment is politically driven in a desire to diversify Cuba’s sources of foreign exchange income. There is a large building programme of hotels, shops, restaurants and airport expansion to meet this goal. At present there are ...
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Stopping the rot
There are those in the Cuban architectural community who chafe at the conservatism of the Office of the City Historian, are impatient for the restoration of more 20th century buildings and want to see more new buildings in the old city. However, faced with over 900 pre-19th century buildings in ...
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A room with a view
Hardy Associates provides a modern take on the New England beach hut overlookaing the Channel for a couple who love the outdoor life.
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New world settlers
The Isle of Wight may be the setting for the novel England, England, but ORMS's Yarmouth house is more American than English.
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Hitting the jackpot
A new generation of hotel casinos in the US is being spawned by multi-billion dollar investment, and architects with a history of design in the leisure and entertainment industries are cashing in. They’re part set design dazzle and part resort revivalist architecture. Albert Warson reports on the architecture of excess ...
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Heavenly interior
A freestanding sculptural staircase helps maintain the feeling of space in a former Methodist chapel and creates a new vertical aisle.
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Hearts of oak
Roderick James shows that you don't have to live in a half-timbered cottage or converted barn to appreciate the joys of a traditional unseasoned oak frame.
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Heartbreak hotels?
The beach peninsula of Varadero, 60 miles east of Havana, is Cuba's biggest construction site. Within the last six months two condominium hotels have opened – Hotel Turquesa at Tainos V1 by José Antonio Choy López and Julia León Lacher, run by Spanish company RIU, and Alberto Molinet's Cuban-run Arenas ...
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Havana's high-flyers
Cuban architecture is often accused of falling below international standards, but this cannot be applied to Havana airport's Terminal Three. The architects selected by the Cuban government, Dolly Gomez and her partner, Mario Girona, have impressive experience of international work, including involvement in Granada's airport in 1983. Katherine MacInnes talks ...
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Green prototype
The client has treated his home as a prototype for the ultimate eco house and plans to market his formula. But architect Neil Winder feels left out in the cold.
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In good shape
A doctor who did not want his surgery to look dull and architects who were new to this building type: AHMM's medical centre is far from usual.
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The good life
It's the straw bales that have grabbed the headlines, but there is more to Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till's house than a few lumps ofdried animal fodder.
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Japan invests in van Gogh
Amsterdam's van Gogh museum will reopen its doors to the public in June, nine months after it closed for extensive renovation to the existing building (originally by Gerrit Rietveld and Partners), and for the construction of a new wing by Japanese star, Kisho Kurokawa. Dirk van den Heuvel assesses the ...
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The tower and the glory
Andrew Tate's modern glazed extension complements the conversion of an Edwardian watertower.