All Archive Titles articles – Page 26
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Archive TitlesBrine in the blood
Of all the elements in the Shetland Islands’ history, the dominant one is always the sea. BDP’s new museum in Lerwick is suitably salty.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Allan Brodie, (yes, that’s him in the picture), is a senior investigator at English Heritage, who has spent the past five years researching the history of the UK’s seaside towns. He tells Grant Gibson about the peculiarities and challenges of our coastal life
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Archive TitlesOne careful owner
Using secondhand prefabs for a campus nursery in east London not only scored environmental points but freed cash for imaginative outdoor spaces.
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Coast to coast
In the United Kingdom we are conditioned by the idea of the coast. It defines our identity.
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Coastal current
A chain of galleries is opening along the South-east coast. Alan Haydon, director of the De La Warr Pavilion, explains.
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Archive TitlesJust your cup of tea?
It’s fair to say that the Heatherwick Studio-designed East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton, Sussex, due to open this month, has split the RIBA Journal office in half.
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Archive TitlesDetective story
Do we need another Scarpa book? Yes, says Richard Murphy, because this one brings to light previously unknown works.
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Archive TitlesDream merchants
Many architects have big ideas, but Marks Barfield get theirs built. The latest is a 140m observation tower on Brighton seafront.
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Archive TitlesEvery little helps
A certification scheme launched this month will help architects assess microgeneration power systems. You might qualify for a grant too...
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The skills initiative
Sustainable building and engineering skills are in short supply, according to one of the nation’s leading consulting engineers, atelier ten. In an effort to redress this, the practice has joined forces with Sponge, the independent network of young professionals working in architecture, engineering, planning and construction, to set up a ...
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Archive TitlesLetter from Spurn Point
Gales may destroy the road but not the spirit at Humber lifeboat station, says coxswain David Steenvoorden
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Archive TitlesSurveys validate our strategy
In March RIBA Council heard reports on three major surveys: what members think of us, what non-architects think of us, and our chances of fund-raising to support our outreach activities. It’s key stuff to planning the RIBA’s future.
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Archive TitlesSwim and a prayer
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s new swimming pool in Formby pays homage to Peter Zumthor’s St Benedict’s Chapel. But it wouldn’t do for its users to be too reverential. Photographs by Dennis Gilbert/view
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Archive TitlesStirling stuff
You can take the high road or the low road but we’ve got to Scotland’s Six Cities Design Festival afore ye…
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Pittsburgh isn’t the most obvious place for an exhibition devoted to British practices. But Raymund Ryan, curator of Gritty Brits (until 3 June at the Heinz Architectural Center), tells Grant Gibson it makes perfect sense…
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Archive TitlesCall to prayers
The cross-currents between British and Islamic architecture have proved fecund. In the 19th century one thinks of the Mughal-inspired forms of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton or Owen Jones’s fascination with the Alhambra and Islamic decoration.