All Archive Titles articles – Page 69
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Are RIBA competitions really the disaster some are claiming?
A few whinging architects and loose-tongued assessors are trying to make a case that the service is in crisis.
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Archive TitlesBright side of the road
Ireland's civic office boom is slowing but there are plenty of other opportunities to be had in a country where there is the money and the will to produce quality architecture.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Robert Finch
Lord Mayor of London Robert Finch, senior partner in the property department at solicitors Linklaters, is the driving force behind the exhibition New City Architecture.
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Archive TitlesBrain boxes
Walls strain to contain the intellectual energy in the Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences, Frank Gehry's 65,000m2 mini-campus for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which officially opens this month.
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Archive TitlesArt-house hunting
Wanted: two ordinary London post-war homes willing to be transformed into walk-through art installations.
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Archive TitlesEating Architecture
If you, like Lubetkin, believe that architecture is a minor branch of ornamental pastry cooking, think again.
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Archive TitlesWho is 6a?
The architects who are deciding what the well-dressed building is wearing this season, that's who.
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Sites without simpering
I was annoyed to read the letter from SG Pickford in the February issue of the RIBA Journal.
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Rational thinking
Burrell Foley Fischer has endowed the Royal Society with a new public face which, while hardly cutting edge, blows the cobwebs off the 17th century academy of science.
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No place for trivia
Am I alone in feeling that, in what is otherwise a fairly well put together professional publication, we have to accept what has become such a trivial back page?
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Archive TitlesSafety by numbers
Can you reduce or even eliminate on-site accidents at the design stage? Cartwright Pickard has done its best to find out by turning a headquarters project into a laboratory for safety research. But then its client is the Health and Safety Executive…
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Lament for schools' loss
I found your editorial on the Building Schools for the Future programme (March 04) timely as I recently had occasion to comment adversely on a planning application for the remodelling of our local primary school.
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Skylon heroes
I hasten to endorse Peter Ahrends' letter (RIBA J, February 04) proposing that the 1951 Skylon be rebuilt to commemorate the works of the practice of Powell and Moya rather than the person of Sir Philip Powell, whose natural modesty would surely make this proposal his preference.
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New rival for Hello!
Just a note to congratulate you and your latest Hello!-style final page which has risen to new heights of banality and celebrity worship (RIBA J February 04, p78).
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Archive TitlesUnited front
Observers of Sauerbruch Hutton's colourful, sensuous architecture may be surprised by its town hall for Hennigsdorf just outside Berlin. This subtle building has a function well beyond its civic duties: it must heal old wounds and reunite the town.
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Schools need LA expertise
May I say what a surprise and a pleasure it was to read your leader in the March edition of the Journal.
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Archive TitlesGod is in the details
Designing for religious communities is a sector dominated by refurbishment schemes and alterations rather than new-build. The work is interesting and varied – although the rewards may come later.
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Designed in a fog
I am not one for having a go at my fellow professionals or your very well conceived magazine, but I am overwhelmed by the need to comment on David Adjaye's Fog House (RIBA J March 04).
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Home delivery
Prefab is seen as the way to solve the country's housing crisis but as AHMM's experience at Raines Dairy suggests, there's a long way to go.
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Fools in cyberspace
If your advanced lighting system starts flashing to the beat of Abba's Dancing Queen, on 1 April listen carefully: a geek on the margins of society is sending you a message.