All Archive Titles articles – Page 19
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Structural script
The theatre complex consist of four main structures: the concrete 750-seat auditorium, the steel and concrete 350-seat auditorium, the steel-framed shoulder block and the roof.
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Archive TitlesAdjaye, Adjaye, everywhere
This autumn architect David Adjaye is harvesting quite a crop of buildings. In London, three in particular have aspirations beyond the mere housing of cultural events.
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Archive TitlesFirst among equals
Social housing is often the poor cousin in mixed schemes, and sometimes blatantly segregated. It doesn’t have to be that way. By Pamela Buxton
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Archive TitlesTouch base
With his company First Base, Elliot Lipton is drawing on his commercial background to shake up assumptions about affordable housing. And he’s throwing good architecture into the mix.
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Archive TitlesLetter from West Bengal
Excited by the idea of carrying out a project in his family’s homeland, Kinetic AIU’s Bob Ghosh finds West Bengal to be a place of architectural contradictions
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Artist Fiona Tan appropriated the Brighton Pavilion for her video installation, opening this month at the RIBA, which replaces George IV’s 100-course banquets with a can of sardines. She talks to Eleanor Young.
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Where the egg came from
I am not an architect and only came across your issue devoted to the Royal Festival Hall when I went to see Carmen Jones there.
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Archive TitlesUniversity challenge
It was Churchill College’s great misfortune to be commissioned and built in the early 1960s at the same time as Arne Jacobsen’s masterly St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
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Social conscience
I met Elliot Lipton, son of developer and former Cabe chairman Sir Stuart Lipton, a few days before sitting down with Iain Tuckett of Coin Street Community Builders. There was a satisfying symmetry to the comparison.
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It may be rubble, but its cool
Forget flying in tents or air dropping cardboard tubes à la Shigeru Ban for disaster relief. Lebanese practice IDEA Sarl has been experimenting with reusing rubble to rebuild.
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Archive TitlesEntente cordiale
‘Collaboration’ is not a word that exactly sends the architectural pulse racing. And it has had some unfortunate wartime connotations. But it is a dominant activity, an inescapable fact of life, at all scales in the making of the built environment.
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Archive TitlesDesigner label
The M of client Monsoon’s logo drove the design of its new HQ in White City. Fortunately it worked well with the roof structure too. By Jan-Carlos Kucharek
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Archive TitlesDivine madness
During the 19th century philanthropic initiatives contributed significantly to the provision of better building for the working classes.
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Archive TitlesDubai rewrites the rules
Dramatic growth in the Persian Gulf is transforming architecture. Hugh Pearman finds OMA’s new book compulsive reading.
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Music to our ears
Music-loving Michael Eavis, organiser of the annual Glastonbury rock festival, is singing from a different hymn sheet as judge for an architectural competition at Wells Cathedral School.
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Archive TitlesMeet Eco- Gaddafi
Libya, once the pariah state par excellence, has come in from the cold and is celebrating the fact with a huge influx of foreign investment. Spearheading an ambitious eco-tourism venture on the Mediterranean coast is none other than the son of the Colonel, himself.
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Lets get it right
The future of social housing must be built around good supply, good quality and tenant choice
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Archive TitlesMud, mud, glorious mud…
The historic Arabian city has seized the imagination of today’s architects.
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Archive TitlesLittle goes a long way
Social housing was once the preserve of council architects or big practices. E & F McLachlan’s carefully considered scheme near Edinburgh shows how much things have changed.