All Archive Titles articles – Page 21
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Archive TitlesDesigner outlets
Architecture Week may have lost its funding but the London Design Festival goes from strength to strength.
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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.
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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 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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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 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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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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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 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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Archive TitlesWe recommend...
Transport Design: A Travel HistoryGregory Votolato, Reaktion Books, £17.95
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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 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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Temporary architecture
Henri Alain-Fournier’s yearningly evocative novel of 1912, Le Grand Meaulnes, sometimes known in translation as The Lost Domain, is to do with a moment – and a place – of transcendent beauty and possibility.
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Don’t blame superstars
Gavin Stamp (last issue) argues against the internationalisation of architecture; the dilution of the formerly exotic and the contamination of the homespun.
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Archive TitlesMixed blessing
A waste product of steel-smelting could cut the carbon emissions of concrete by up to 40%. So how come more architects don’t know about it? By Jan-Carlos Kucharek.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
The Lift New Parliament is a transportable meeting and performance space. Geoff Shearcroft, director of AOC, the winning design team, tells Jan-Carlos Kucharek about the world of difference between demountable and permanent buildings.
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British demolition tactics
Last year you closed a heated debate in your columns about the Israel/Palestine issue.