All Archive Titles articles – Page 27
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Archive TitlesPod cast
Fire-resistant steel is key to Kisho Kurokawa’s plans to renew the modules of his 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower while its concrete cores remain.
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Archive TitlesSoul-searching cities
Modern multicultural cities still need spiritual sanctuaries accessible to all. Architects can best provide these by focusing on enhancing people’s lives rather than so-called iconic buildings.
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Archive TitlesEuropean union
Giles Worsley sets Inigo Jones’s work in its European context and sheds new light on its influences
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Archive TitlesEye of the storm
Just as well Mangera Yvars isn’t easily fazed. Their proposal for a mega-mosque on the London Olympics site is causing all kinds of controversy.
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A matter of faith
If the church, the pub and the village green used to define English rural life, Nonconformist chapels traced the characters of many an industrial town, synagogues sprang up to serve displaced communities, and the spread of urban mosques and mandirs indicated the aftermath of Empire, then we await with interest ...
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Archive TitlesWhat is...Architecture sans Frontières?
A loose international federation of ‘informal, independent and non-hierarchical organisations’ concerned with improving the environments of developing nations, that’s what. It is behind the latest exhibition at the RIBA in Portland Place, Fragile Seams: Life on the Edge, which fills the Florence Hall with story-telling temporary structures of timber and ...
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God only knows
Burgeoning faiths don’t care about aesthetic heritage. They don’t need to. That’s left to the poor old failing ones.
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Archive TitlesThe other Pugins: saving Gorton Monastery
The one we all know was Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, he of Palace of Westminster fame, whose house in Ramsgate, The Grange, has recently been beautifully restored by the Landmark Trust.
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Archive TitlesJakobs ladder
In its new synagogue in Munich, Wandel Hoefer Lorch reconciles the traditions of the Jewish faith with the needs of today’s more liberal worshippers. By Grant Gibson. Photographs: Rolande Halbe
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Archive TitlesLetter from... Walsingham
Chris Cowper of Cowper Griffith feels the weight of history in designing a centre for pilgrims in Norfolk
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Archive TitlesModern masterpiece seeks tenants
Fancy taking on a listed modern masterpiece? You can: the National Trust wants appreciative tenants for Patrick Gwynne’s masterly, restored Surrey house The Homewood. This sprawling 1938 family home, set in acres of woodland, was lived in by Gwynne up to his death in 2003.
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Worsley memoriam
Architectural historian Giles Worsley, who died of cancer last year at the age of only 44, is to be commemorated by a travel fellowship set up by his wife Joanna Pitman.
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Archive TitlesNecropolis now
London practice mæ has a special interest in the architecture of burial, so it’s fitting that its first civic commission is a cemetery in North Hertfordshire. By Hugh Pearman. Photographs: Michele Panzeri
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Archive TitlesZoom in, zoom out
I’ve always found bricks, mortar and concrete a little ‘last century’, but happily all those tedious real-world materials are superfluous in Second Life, the immense online world or ‘metaverse’ where designers, architects and businesses while away their actual lives by living in silicon.
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Archive TitlesStreet theatre
LEDs have given architects a wonderful new tool for transforming urban space. Just don’t let the multimillion colour choices go to your head.
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Archive TitlesWere turning up the volume
Does every president come to the Institute as a critic and leave as a fan – slightly frustrated we can’t do enough to achieve our huge potential?
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Wood’s a winner
Entries are now open for The Wood Awards 2007. The premier prize for wood in buildings and furniture is in its fifth year covering virtually every type of project in construction, joinery and furniture.
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Archive TitlesUnderneath the arches
Suddenly it seems everyone wants underfloor heating. But architects will need to specify carefully if they are to keep their clients’ feet in the comfort zone.