All Archive Titles articles – Page 23
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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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Screen stars
Foreign Office Architects came to international stardom with Yokohama Port Terminal. Now it’s low-cost social housing in Spain, and that takes imagination too. Words and photos by Hugh Pearman
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Raising the roof
While I enjoyed reading your issue about the Royal Festival Hall reopening (RIBAJ June 07), there is an error at the top of the first paragraph on page 47 where it is stated ‘But the overall massing of the hall, complete with its gently curving boat-hull roof, is present and ...
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Piers of the realm
I found the coastal towns article by Fred Gray very interesting (RIBAJ May 07).
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The way we work now
Tent London is a new exhibition from the founders of 100% Design and 100% East that runs from 20-23 September at Truman Brewery.
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Learning process
Ten years into the government’s school improvement programme, spending in the education sector is still on the increase. While new-build gets the headlines, there’s much more to it than that.
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Kids rule OK
‘Kids smell a lie a mile off; it’s like the joke that’s not funny adults laugh, kids won’t. So to get anywhere in this collaboration, it has to be absolutely honest.
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Going into the red
You can’t help wondering if Oscar Niemeyer’s Communist Party HQ in Paris will still be in Party hands when the RIBA holds its Entente Cordiale conference in this iconic 1972 building from October 26-27.
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Fresh out of school
The National Architecture Student Festival is inviting schools of architecture, engineering, planning, construction management and the built environment to take part in a competition that aims to create of a string of urban interventions during next year’s London Festival of Architecture.
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Archive TitlesHall of fame
I thought your Royal Festival Hall issue was bloody good (RIBAJ June 07).
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Archive TitlesUlster shows how it’s done
Belfast is booming – and blooming. The Royal Society of Ulster Architects has a new HQ and they asked me over to formally open the building.
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Steel vs concrete
I was shocked when, trying to gain some CPD points, I read on page 85 (RIBAJ June) that ‘the poor compressive strength of steel is made up by the good performance of the concrete, with the opposite being true for tensile strength’.
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Comment: Gavin Stamp
The Brit superstars can take themselves off – and give more thoughtful architects a chance at home.
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Commander of the plain
The magnificence of Sir Edwin Lutyens’s Viceroy’s House, New Delhi (1931) has rather occluded another remarkable example of British colonial architecture in India some three miles distant and commanding the desolate plain on which it stands.
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Archive TitlesLetter from... Ho Chi Minh City
In entrepreneurial Saigon, locals rapidly redeploy hardcore intended for much needed road improvement. Matt Parkes revs up his Vespa.
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Archive TitlesCase for the prosecution
Eyal Weizman blasts away at the notion of architecture in Israel as a disinterested discipline with clean hands, says Robert Bevan
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The buying game
How do you sell innovation? If eco-homes are going to crack the mass market they need to appeal to builders, buyers, lenders and insurers.