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Havana's model example
Architects Mario Coyula Cowley and his brother Miguel are famed in Cuba for building a full model of the city and a custom-designed building to house it. Mario has a busy schedule of international lectures and also finds time to lecture at Havana’s school of architecture. He is described by ...
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Lords of the dance
US architect Peter Pran represents the new wave of international architects who believe that great work can come out of the largest 'corporate' firms, through the use of small design studios. 'The building must be able to dance as a lone dancer and in a chorus line, and not ...
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Green credentials
The Walter Segal self-build method helps the Brighton Hedgehog community builders take their housing problem into their own hands.
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How to catch the wave...
A “boom in preparation”Frequent visitors to Cuba are constantly surprised by the speed with which new buildings are shooting up after years in which the buzzword, in Havana at least, was decay rather than renewal. It may not be a property boom in the style of Bangkok in the early ...
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Cuba's Canary Wharf
In Miramar, a district in the west of Havana, a huge but hushed development is emerging between 80th and 70th street and 5th and lst Avenue. The Miramar Financial Centre is remarkable for two major reasons. Firstly, its budget of US$15 million and US$30 million for the first and second ...
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Risky business
Fidel Castro seems to have changed his tune since declaring the property board game Monopoly “a symbol of an imperialist and capitalist system”, and ordering that every set in Cuba be destroyed. In a breathtaking display of double standards, life is being injected into the real estate market, and architects ...
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Bridge has the Wright stuff
50 years on Frank Lloyd Wright still outclasses the opposition
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Hidden assets
Bare white plaster was used to brilliant effect at the recent Museum of Scotland. This report asks why the technique is not more popular with architects.
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Stressful architecture
After the recession put an early scheme on hold, Richard Rogers Partnership’s new City office building had to be redesigned with a third more space within the same volume – for half the money.
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Castro seeks 'new visions' from architects
“Today the imminent ‘invasion’ of the expected or feared change of the post- Castro era and the harbingers of real capitalism can be sensed,” says Peter Noever, organiser of the Havana Project, an exhibition opening in Havana in October and inspired by the conference The Havana Project - Architecture Again ...
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Family affair
When a former senior member of staff at the Tate Gallery and his wife wanted a new home, they commissioned their son.
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Speaking in tongues
A new ceder and brick addition to Royal Holloway College uses the latest natural cooling techniques.
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Room with a view
A house extension on the Isle of Wight offers an open-plan living space rather than conforming to twee seaside stereotypes.
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Pitch it strong
The focus on energy conservation has led to research into an alternative roof solution to the traditional ventilated system, which challenges conventional wisdom but still complies with the Building Regulations.
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Low-down on lifts
Lifts are undergoing a series of upheavals which architects need to know about, even if they never design a bespoke lift like the one below by Richard Horden Associates.
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PowerGen HQ
An efficient and highly flexible workspace was the brief for Phase II of PowerGen's award-winning Midlands hq. What part has the lighting design played in realising the client's dreams?
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Tripping the light fantastic
It's curtain up time at London's New Sadler's Wells Theatre, where a vast array of specially-designed spotlights, wallwashers, downlights and fibre optics combine to provide a dramatic scene for artists and theatre-goers alike.
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Exercise in moderation
Community development was never one of the LDDC's strong points, but just before its demise last year the corporation ensured that a new sports and community centre designed by Proctor Matthews would, finally, be built.
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Crafty work
A weighty tome provides a comprehensive and well-written analysis of the history of crafts in Britain throughout this century.
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Lighting controls: are they working?
One of the key issues in the design of today's intelligent buildings is the interface between the technology operating them and end-users the building occupants. A perfect example of such an interface is the control of electric lighting.