All Archive Titles articles – Page 20
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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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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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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 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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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 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 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 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 TitlesTête-à-tête
Whoever said two into one don’t go? Norman Foster and Jean Nouvel have put their heads together for the £300m Walbrook Square development in the City. And as you would expect, they’re doing nothing by halves.
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Archive TitlesSocial whorl
Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Kjetil Thorsen, designers of this year’s spiralling Serpentine Pavilion, discuss their working methods with gallery directors Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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Archive TitlesWe recommend...
Transport Design: A Travel HistoryGregory Votolato, Reaktion Books, £17.95
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Archive TitlesVictoria plum
Wilkinson Eyre’s replacement for the unlovely Portland House office tower at Victoria (right) is just part of the massive, £2 billion Victoria Transport Interchange project, submitted for planning permission as RIBAJ went to press.
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No place for politics
Dear Mr President, this letter touches on matters of principle so it has also been sent to the RIBA Journal.
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Archive TitlesZoom in, zoom out
What has the world been waiting for? A bloody good architecture website for kiddies, that’s what.
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Archive TitlesNurse, the screens
Expanded aluminium and woven steel are useful materials for shielding unsightly buildings. But as the newly clad boilerhouse at Guy’s Hospital shows, they can also be a powerful visual statement.
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When Matthew Met Mike
Collaborative projects are often the beginning of a beautiful friendship – and yet further collaboration. Matthew Wells of Techniker and BPR’s Mike Russum have been best buddies ever since they almost fell out over Graham Hill’s Lotus…Here, they explain why they work so well together.
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Archive TitlesLost world
It may look like a souped-up crazy golf course, but artist Wolfgang Weileder’s Mapping installation at Kielder Water in Northumberland is making the locals remember as well as smile.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Shoreditch High Street
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, designersblock has always been a collaboration between cutting-edge furniture design and buildings in transition
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Archive TitlesHandbrake turn
Savour those exhaust fumes… Grant Gibson wishes the author of The Architecture of Parking would loosen up a little.