All Archive Titles articles – Page 19
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Wood Awards 07
The Gold Winner of the 2007 Wood Awards is Feilden Clegg Bradley’s austerely beautiful Formby Pool in Lancashire, proving that not all municipal swimming buildings take their cue from CenterParcs.
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Archive TitlesWaterloo sunrise
Coin Street Community Builders are getting ever more ambitious in their creation of an affordable, stylish city-centre enclave. As they move into a new HQ and neighbourhood centre, we trace their achievements.
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Separation not possible
Despite the concerns of Sandor Vaci and Stephen Rosenberg (Letters, Sept 07), aptly dealt with by the new RIBA President Sunand Prasad, it would be hard to separate architecture from politics anywhere.
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Politics should be private
Sandor Vaci (Letters, September 07) is spot on. The institute has meddled in an area (private political views) which has nothing to do with it.
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Archive TitlesZoom in, zoom out
Danish product design got a good airing during London Design Week, thanks to the support and funds of the Danish Embassy, but what about new Danish architecture?
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Archive TitlesWho is Zac Monro?
Well, architect by day, air guitar god by night and now a star of Air Guitar Nation, a new documentary on the annual world championships that take place in Finland.
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Archive TitlesImprove the view
Homes and offices, new-build or refurbishment – any project is eligible for our competition to win an upgrade to self-cleaning glass. Just tell us how your design would benefit from Pilkington Activ.
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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.
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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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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 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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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 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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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 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 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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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.