All Archive Titles articles – Page 4
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Le Corbusier
Yes, he became a byword for a particular kind of architectural hauteur (though Frank Lloyd Wright could always run him close, both on that and on his never-ending hunger for publicity).
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Come to Venice
Forget critical regionalism, there is a whole new brand of regionalism out there.
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Brief encounter
RIBA Fellow Dr Balkrishna Doshi, now 81, worked for Corb both in his Paris office and on various projects in Ahmedabad. He tells Eleanor Young what it was like.
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Sacré bleu!
An unholy row has broken out between those who want to see a visitor centre and pilgrims’ retreat built at Corb’s chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut and those who see the plans as a betrayal of the great man’s intentions.
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Seeing is believing
Some are born worshippers, some are converts, some doubters – and some think he’s the devil incarnate. We ask eight leading practitioners what they think of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret.
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Beijing's eclectic edifices
The diverse styles of Beijing’s Olympic buildings have a precedent in the Chinese government’s construction programme of 1959.
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Bat out of hell
No superhero depends more on his habitat than Batman, so it’s a shame the latest Gotham is so bland
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Zoom in zoom out by ‘Avatar’
Given the spread of Le Corbusier’s designs across the globe, the web should be the perfect place to unite them – yet sites specific to him seem rather sparse.
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Archive TitlesThe Robotism of Architecture
The first English translation of Vers une Architecture appeared in 1927 as Towards a New Architecture. Here we reproduce Edwin Lutyens’ review from the Observer of 29 January 1928.
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Archive TitlesStraw’s in the wind
Prefabrication alone is not enough. Committed young architects are ensuring the next generation of modular units is designed for sustainability, from manufacture to disposal.
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Archive TitlesTonic with a splash
Refurbishment of Morecambe’s 1930s jewel, the Midland Hotel, by Union North, is just the start of a wider regeneration scheme by Flacq. And this once-glamorous resort is sorely in need of a fillip.
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Salaries
Architects’ salaries are still outperforming inflation. Just released, the RIBA/Fees Bureau Architects’ Employment Survey 2008 shows salaries up 6% on 2007, climbing at twice the rate of inflation.
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Rotunda reminiscences
I read with much nostalgia the article ‘Round of applause’ in the June 2008 issue of the RIBA Journal.
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Archive TitlesLetter from... Vaux-le-Vicomte
Bon viveur Jan-Carlos Kucharek chills out at the chateau – but all is not quite what it seems in the garden…
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At your leisure
It’s August and holidays beckon. What better time for the architectural flâneur to take a gentle stroll through the latest leisure-related architecture?
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I’ve seen the light
‘Designer’ hotels have gone about as far as they can go, says Grant Gibson. Cultural grazing is the new paradigm.
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Moving house
The RIBA Journal is moving home. After a number of years when we have been published in a joint-venture arrangement with publisher CMPi (inheritor of the former Builder Group), we have amicably dissolved that relationship. In consequence, the RIBAJ is once again 100% owned by the RIBA.
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Archive TitlesA global profession
The 23rd UIA Congress and General Assembly was held at Turin from 29 June to 4 July in the refurbished Fiat factory at Lingotto.
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Archive TitlesGive us a hand
Dear RIBAJ readers and fellow architects, we, Ben Pulford and Matt Lowther, both architects working at R H Partnership in Cambridge, have entered the Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race 2009; 3000 miles of nonstop rowing.
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Archive TitlesFrench Polish
What is one of France’s greatest architects and the brains behind the Bibliothèque Nationale doing serving up a municipal cafe in Reigate? Getting to know the English, apparently.