All Archive Titles articles – Page 58
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Make the connection
May I continue the train of thought started by Mike Macrae in his response (letters, RIBAJ March 05) to Alain de Botton’s article in your February edition.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Cannes
Four days in Cannes to attend Mipim was S333’s prize for having being short-listed for the first-ever Next Generation Award.
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Sensible energy calculation
So the new Part L is to impose on us ever more complex methods of predicting and certifying the energy efficiency of buildings (Building Regulations 2005, RIBAJ Feb 05).
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Sebastian Tombs
Sebastian Tombs has just jumped from chief executive of the RIAS to the same role at the newly formed Architecture and Design Scotland.
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Archive TitlesEast End boys
During the 1950s an awakening interest in gritty street photography informed architectural thought.
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Archive TitlesWho is Atelier Kempe Thill?
Winners of Holland’s most prestigious architecture award for young architects, that’s who. The annual Rotterdam Maaskant Prize is given to architects under 35 who have ‘distinguished themselves in the field of architecture or urban design.’
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Archive TitlesMoore’s art is still speaking for itself
At the base of Charles Holden’s Senate House in London is a set of stones ordered for a work by Henry Moore – but there is nothing on them. It is one of Moore’s many aborted collaborations with architects, explored in a new exhibition Henry Moore and the Challenge of ...
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Thinking space
Your leader (RIBAJ Jan 05, p07) started the New Year in a provocative mood.
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He read my mind
Thanks for including Alain de Botton’s piece ‘room for the ordinary’.
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Milan
International heavyweights strutted their ideas for regenerating vast tracts of derelict industrial land in fashion capital Milan
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Process makes places
Alain de Botton’s article (RIBAJ Feb 05) is timely. As your editorial points out we are living through a societal crisis in place-making.
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Modern view of listing
Conservation-phobia (leader, RIBAJ Jan 05) stems from the premise that protection of heritage prevents necessary change.
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Archive TitlesThe latest thriller
Brighton’s new Jubilee Library, one of the first to be built under PFI, doesn’t look like your traditional lending establishment.
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Marco Goldschmied
We all happily snack on environmental sound bites while busily doing business in the man-made worlds of buildings, planes and automobiles. Nowhere do the bites sound louder than in the English-speaking countries. The Kyoto Treaty agreed in 1997 has now come into force, but Australia and the USA have ...
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Desperate urbanists
Future historians will find insight into 20th century architectural typology in the archives of television sitcoms – much more entertaining than plowing through Pevsner.
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Archive TitlesCutty Sark hoists sail once more
Pneumatic beams, Kevlar and twisted laminated glass – Grimshaw’s plans to preserve the Cutty Sark will use ultra-modern techniques and materials.
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Archive TitlesCrowd control
Young London practice Brisac Gonzalez had to supply some urban density – and pull in the punters – with its design for Sweden’s new Museum of World Culture.
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Classicism is the key
I greatly enjoyed Alain de Botton’s article ‘The special and the ordinary’ in RIBA Journal (February 05 page 26).
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Archive TitlesCity counsel
It is clear that we are doomed if we don’t act and act fast on sustainability. But adopted Englishman Herbert Girardet shows how a combination of benign technology, more responsible behaviour and engaged local democracy will allow us to survive in ‘Ecopolis’.
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Archive TitlesInvestor’s chronicle
Financial pressures forced Hawkins\Brown’s Portsmouth University business school into a design and build contract, and it shows. But d&b doesn’t have to mean second best