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Richard Rogers on building the Pompidou Centre
30 years on from the completion of the Pompidou Centre at Beaubourg, how does it all seem now for Richard Rogers, newly-crowned Pritzker laureate and ultimate home-loving Brit Abroad? Hugh Pearman caught him in reminiscent mood.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
With the Design Museum’s huge retrospective on Zaha Hadid about to open, Deyan Sudjic, the museum’s director and co-curator of the show, tells Grant Gibson how to bring an architecture exhibition to life...
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Archive TitlesPavement art
Here at the RIBAJ we’ve always had a soft spot for photographers who have a slightly askew take on architecture.
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Around the world
Exactly how many air miles do the UK’s leading practices put in? It seemed a fair question to ask in an issue devoted to British architects working abroad.
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We'll always have Paris
When Piano and Rogers’ Pompidou Centre opened 30 years ago, it ushered in a new era, and a new type, of architecture. How much of that original spirit has survived?
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Nieuwe Achter Graacht?
It’s a canal in south-eastern Amsterdam, that’s what. It runs through what will be the largest university humanities faculty in the Netherlands, with 6000 students and 1000 staff.
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Brits abroad
Our cover gives the flavour: the air miles now being clocked up by British architects with overseas projects are enough to make any environmentalist weep. The new internationalism in architecture reflects the multinational nature of many British architects’ offices, which in turn derives from the diversity of origin of students ...
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Archive TitlesCPD Module 18: Fabric energy storage for low energy cooling of buildings
Welcome to Module 18 in our occasional series of CPD features designed to broaden your professional knowledge while you work. This module is sponsored by Tarmac.
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The reworking
In 1951, the main Waterloo entrance to the Royal Festival Hall was at ground level on the downstream, eastern side, balanced by another at high level on the western flank, by the Hungerford railway bridge to Charing Cross.
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Archive TitlesRelief in Ryde
I have followed the rise of Marks Barfield from the days before the London Eye was conceived.
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Open season
The Lavenham house (RIBAJ March 07, pages 35-40) is very nice, but how did Project Orange get Building Regs approval for a three-storey dwelling with an open staircase at ground-floor level?
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Archive TitlesThe New Yorker
From parks to freeways, planning power-broker Robert Moses went on to leave an indelible mark on the city.
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Archive TitlesMidsummer revels
With the younger, rather more unruly London Architecture Biennale in a fallow year, it’s the turn of the established (and establishment) Architecture Week, organised by the Arts Council England, RIBA and the Architecture Centre Network, to step into the limelight.
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Archive TitlesSlice of life
This Hayes Davidson section of the revamped Royal Festival Hall describes better than any words the way London’s public realm flows under and through the building, from the riverside walkway at the front to the new square at the back, landscaped by Gross.Max. This is about a lot more than ...
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Archive TitlesLetter from... the RFH stage
Bob Stanley recalls the soupy pre-refurb acoustics of the dear old eggbox and takes to the stage to test the new.
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The other hundred grand
While most eyes will be on Richard Rogers receiving the 2007 Pritzker Prize on 4 June, spare a thought for another $100,000 award that has come out of America. The 2007 Marcus Prize, intended to reward emerging talent rather than established names, has gone to Berlin-based practice Barkow Leibinger. ...
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Royal Festival Hall
‘For the first time in 12 years British architecture is enjoying a little freedom from the shackles of austerity,’ wrote my predecessor in this chair, Eric Leslie Bird, in May 1951.
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Archive TitlesFamiliar spirit
Much to the chagrin of more dogmatic modernists, the Swedish-inspired forms of the Festival of Britain on London’s South Bank (1951), which they condemned as ‘flimsy’ and ‘effeminate’, spread throughout the country. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Coventry, devastated by its 1940 bombing.