All Archive Titles articles – Page 39
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Archive TitlesA kind of hush
Timber floors tick all the right boxes for sustainable high-density housing. But how effective are they acoustically and how can architects ensure they meet Part E?
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Half term report
I’m halfway through my presidency. So, what has been achieved by the RIBA team on my watch?
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Archive TitlesOut of the gutter
Professor Sophie Body-Gendrot, director of the centre for urban studies at the Sorbonne, talks about last year’s French riots, the Parisian banlieues, and possible solutions to the crisis of alienation in a preview of her contribution to the architecture and the ghetto discussion at the RIBA Conference in Venice next ...
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We do not have diplomas...
...we have the diplomas of the street,’ explained the young men of the banlieus to the Sorbonne’s Professor Sophie Body-Gendrot a whole decade before 200 French cities erupted in riots last year (see page 28).
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Streetcars named desire
Remember the good old days of winding your way through small-town America? No, nor does anybody else, but Disney’s animation blockbuster Cars will remind you anyway.
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Archive TitlesSpecial delivery
Children with special needs drove the brief for Hampshire County Architects’ Lanterns Centre in Winchester, and the result is a paragon of child-friendly design.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Martha Schwartz
Martha is a US landscape designer and artist who has just moved to London.
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Archive TitlesBody in the library
Gunnar Asplund: by Peter Blundell Jones, Phaidon, £45. Review by Isi Metzstein
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Archive TitlesRetreading the boards
The Art Team’s reworking of the 1970 Newcastle Playhouse gives the actors both bravura and initimate spaces and the audience somewhere decent to have a drink.
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Archive TitlesBigging it up
Mega cities: places where demographics overwhelm our ability to understand them at a human scale.
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Archive TitlesAqua culture
Careful massing and alignment mean Grimshaw’s New Royal Bath sits well with its hallowed Georgian neighbours in the queen of British spas. And the rooftop pool is to die for.
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Archive TitlesBlue Peter it aint
Trying to get a classroom of kids inspired by architecture and the built environment sounds like a recipe for trouble. But ask them how they want to change the area where they live, and you’re already half way to a fruitful collaboration.
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People: ODA announces planning committee line up
Also: Maxwell Hunter presents documentary on London architectural wonders
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People: Victor Hwang will take personal control of the Battersea power station redevelopment
Architecture enthusiast and developer Victor Hwang is to take personal control of the Battersea power station redevelopment it was announced this week. Hwang, who has worked with architects including Grimshaw, Ron Arad and UN Studio, will become executive director of the project following a series of delays and setbacks.
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In my opinion
In 1988, when I was working in Tokyo in the property boom which saw half the world’s cranes operating in the city, I managed to get myself thrown out of a hotel.
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Archive TitlesMoney talks
RIBAJ invited four architects from a range of practice sizes to talk about fees and earnings and the relationship between them. To encourage free flowing conversation the comments are unattributed.
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Lets do it
Sustainable energy technologies from around the world are being combined with modern construction methods in Nottingham University’s ecologically-friendly prototype house of the not-so-distant future.
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Archive TitlesOde to a lamp-post
The Roman poet Horace’s maxim ut pictura poesis, pithily underlining the complementary nature of the visual and literary arts, neatly encapsulates the relationship between the poet, writer and architectural critic Sir John Betjeman (the centenary of whose birth falls this month) and the photographer Edwin Smith.
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Archive TitlesKahn of worms
It was the first major commission for one of America’s most important architects, and glimpses of the newly finished interior bring Louis Kahn’s 1953 modernist masterpiece back to…well, 1953.