All Archive Titles articles – Page 25
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Archive TitlesThe client — Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch runs the South Bank Centre and has a reputation as a hard man. He pulls no punches in this conversation with Grant Gibson.
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Archive TitlesCone of discovery
The same Allies and Morrison team that was rushing to complete the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank had a slightly earlier deadline to meet downriver in Greenwich: a 120-seat planetarium at the Royal Observatory, part of the National Maritime Museum complex.
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Cultural studies
The reopening of the Royal Festival Hall and the Millennium Dome show us a changing Britain, says Grant Gibson.
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Archive TitlesThe original — Trevor Dannatt
Hugh Pearman, RIBA Journal editor, interviews Trevor Dannatt, one of the original Royal Festival Hall architects in the late 1940s and still active today. Fiercely protective of the building and a doughty but always fair-minded critic of some of the alterations, he talks about what it was like to work ...
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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.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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 TitlesRelief in Ryde
I have followed the rise of Marks Barfield from the days before the London Eye was conceived.
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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 TitlesHandle with care
From the People’s Palace to Her Majesty’s loo, the RFH’s 450 doors presented challenges of particular sensitivity to the restorers of the hall’s modernist ironmongery.
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Archive TitlesAhoy there
Charles Dickens praised Folkestone for furnishing ‘a picture with such music in the billowy rush upon the shingle, such charms of sight and sound as all the galleries on earth can but poorly suggest’.
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Archive TitlesBay watch – art on the coast
If architecture has a key role to play in reviving our coastal resorts, then so too does art.
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Archive TitlesOh, we do like to be beside the seaside…
… where the brassbands play, tiddley-om-pom-pom! The picture postcard view of our seaside may be long gone, but, for all the talk of decline, many of our coastal towns are thriving. By Fred Gray