All Archive Titles articles – Page 68
-
Archive TitlesExplore the great outdoors
Once seen merely as residual space to be decorated, the public realm is now regarded as a vital part of any development – and a great break for architects.
-
Archive Titles
Dropping the pilot
I was interested to read of AHMM's dilemma in fighting to remain architect for its health centre project in Kentish Town (RIBA J May 2004).
-
Archive Titles
The discomfort zone
Architecture is a much more subtle torture tool than electric shocks and beatings and just as effective. Best of all, it leaves no physical marks on the detainees.
-
Archive TitlesThose were the days…
Who influenced architecture more in the 1960s: the Smithsons or artist Richard Hamilton?
-
Archive Titles
Unfair competitions
Your May editorial was one of the biggest whinges I've come across in some time, yet it is fabulous to hear architects are complaining.
-
-
Archive TitlesWhat is Plop Art?
In a world increasingly dominated by acronyms, it is a relief to discover that in this case plop means exactly what it says – art that's been plopped down.
-
Archive TitlesArchitects’ choice
We ask six designers to name the pieces of office furniture they most enjoy specifying for their clients’ fit-outs – or their own.
-
Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Ron Arad
Ron Arad Associates has designed a 44-room boutique hotel set into the transparent roof of London's redeveloped Battersea Power Station. The prospective clients are celebrities and the rich, who will pay up to £3000 a night to float between the four iconic chimneys.
-
Archive TitlesMilan 2004
RIBA Works asked Ferhan Azman, fresh from designing the V&A’s Vivienne Westwood exhibition, for an architect’s perspective on this year’s Milan Furniture Fair.
-
Archive TitlesWeather vane
Boyd Cody's client for the practice's first standalone house wanted the building to be 'full of light' – and it is, even in a Dublin downpour.
-
Archive Titles
Talk of the town
Bucholz McEvoy set the tone for Ireland's civic building boom with its Fingal County Hall, completed in 2000. Its reprise for Limerick is equally dramatic.
-
Archive TitlesStar player
Martin Henchion's Cabra sports centre is a tough but classy customer, its generous budget permitting materials that command more respect than those of its tin shed teammates.
-
Archive Titles
Paradise lost
Turn-of-the-century artists who vainly sought Eden in the South Pacific retreated to ever remoter parts of the islands – and their imaginations – to construct their own.
-
Archive TitlesNatural high
Naturally ventilating a tall building has pitfalls that can make any designer hot under the collar. But it can be done, especially with some mechanical air-con to help it along.
-
Archive TitlesHealth warning
Frantic efforts are under way to keep AHMM as architect for a new health centre in Kentish Town, north London.
-
Archive TitlesLearned friend
FKL Architects' public library and local area office at Baldoyle, County Dublin, is a building of quiet subtlety that flatters its neighbours without imitating them and dignifies its function with a fitting monumentality.
-
Archive TitlesThe Dubliners
For architects with ambition the ticket from Ireland was often one way. Now a civic building boom is giving young practices the chance to bring their overseas experience home.
-
Archive TitlesDressed to thrill
What all the most stylish and cleverest buildings are wearing this spring – for more information visit www.ribajournal.com/enquiries
-
Archive TitlesCritical views
The title of Robert Elwall's eclectic and generous history of architectural photography eloquently suggests the power of the camera.