All Archive Titles articles – Page 6
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Archive TitlesMen of substance
Sculptor Antony Gormley is an old client, friend and collaborator of Chipperfield, who designed his King’s Cross studio. Here the two converse about the pull of tradition, modernism and the compulsion to create on a human scale.
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Archive TitlesFrom Prussia with love
Reassembling Berlin’s Neues Museum was always going to be a delicate negotiation with Germany’s turbulent 20th century history, but Chipperfield has done considerably more than simply replicate the past.
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Archive TitlesLone ranger
David Chipperfield cut his teeth in the offices of Foster and Rogers, but was forced to find his architectural voice abroad. He reflects on why it happened that way.
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Archive TitlesLaw unto itself
Soft colours and subtle siting mitigate the vastness of Barcelona’s new City of Justice – but the local jury is still out.
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Archive TitlesHome service
Chipperfield’s has built very little in Britain, a situation it attributes to an unjustified reputation for being ‘difficult’. UK clients of the practice seem to agree the description is unfair.
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Archive TitlesGalvanising gets glamorous
Winner of this year’s Galvanizers Association Galvanising in Architecture award was announced this month as Walter Menteth Architects’ Consort Housing in Peckham, south London.
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Archive TitlesLetter from...Castleford
Renato Benedetti reflects on what he learnt from working at Chipperfield’s.
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Archive TitlesEcotowns: quality not quantity
Criticisms of the proposals to build up to 10 ‘ecotowns’ in England range from the eminently reasonable to the obviously nimby.
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Archive TitlesEco-heretics unite
Hats off to anyone who challenges the eco-fundamentalists, but don’t make sustainability a dirty word
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Archive TitlesSeriously cool
Five volumes break up David Chipperfield Architects’ 8000m2 extension to the Anchorage Museum in Alaska.
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Archive TitlesDavid Chipperfield
David Chipperfield is perhaps our best-kept architectural secret. When you look at the body of work he has produced since the mid-1980s, it is remarkable that he is not better appreciated in Britain. Being feted by one’s own profession, winning the Stirling Prize as he did last year, is not ...
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Archive TitlesWhat is a cast iron facade?
On London’s King’s Cross railway lands, it will be a series of patterned columns cloaking a rather special office building.
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Archive TitlesConstructed in Britain
An exhibition of abstract and constructivist art, architecture and design starts in communist Russia but triumphs in its collection of British art
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw is president of the Royal Academy, which has signed up David Chipperfield to design its expansion into the Victorian Pennethorne building on Burlington Gardens. Hugh Pearman asked what swung it for him.
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Archive TitlesBristol battle lines
I have been lying low about Bristol Harbourside but must correct some false impressions from the article ‘What’s bred in the bone’ in last month’s issue on waterfront architecture.
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Archive TitlesBare essentials
Conservation architect Julian Harrap’s approach to the Neues Museum had the local team puzzled. He wanted them to use their formidable restoration skills, but keep the scars visible.
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Archive TitlesZoom in zoom out by ‘Avatar’
Admit it – you’ve all Googled your own name. I know I have. But what about the subject of this month’s issue, David Chipperfield?
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Get angry with mediocrity
I loved Sam Jacob’s demolition derby critique of the architectural scene (RIBAJ May 08). His summaries of Alsop and Zaha were worth the print run alone.