All Archive Titles articles – Page 70
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Archive TitlesBeyond the extranet
Project extranets and document management, as the construction industry understands them, could be dead within a few years. What is the state of the technology and what does the future hold?
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Archive TitlesProducts
The recessed colour changer from Mood Concepts is one of the first in a new generation of LED lights that is small (it has an MR 16 size recessed fitting), powerful and similar in price to conventional halogen colour changing systems.
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L.E.D.
Tiny size, low energy consumption and minimal maintenance offset the relative expense of LEDs ... But what really wins clients over to this new lighting technology is the dazzling choice of colours it offers.
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Leader
Rarely is the RIBA's first-floor gallery so packed as it was for the opening last month of Made of Light, an exhibition conceived by Speirs and Major.
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Archive TitlesEarthed
Pavement-mounted lights are an increasingly popular way of reclaiming urban spaces from the night, but specifying them has its pitfalls. We introduce a specifier's guide by Dominic Meyrick of lighting designer Hoare Lea.
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Archive TitlesDramatise: Hoare Lea Lighting, London School of Hygiene
Colour-changing LEDs have transformed the atrium of a new building at the London School of Tropical Medicine from an uninspiring educational space into a dramatic arena for special events.
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Archive TitlesGlow: Lighting Design International, Lloyds Court, Newcastle
A dramatic glass and steel staircase that glows in the dark is the centrepiece of the four-storey high reception space of an office development in Grey Street, Newcastle.
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Archive TitlesAnnounce: Light & Design Associates, Birmingham Town Hall
This pastiche Greek temple, built in the late 19th century, now has competition for its landmark status in Birmingham, not least from Future System’s Selfridges.
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Archive TitlesAmaze: Light & Design Associates, Royal Society light sculpture, London
A light sculpture for one of the world's most revered scientific institutions not only has to look good, it has to be technically arresting.
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Archive TitlesAccentuate: INTO Lighting Design, Stella McCartney store, London
Chandeliers by Barber Osgerby and a quirky LED exterior illumination are part of INTO Lighting Design's scheme for Stella McCartney's flagship store in Bruton Street.
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For the record
The article comparing ARB with the RIBA (RIBAJ Jan 04, page ii) contained errors and omissions.
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Trains, not planes
Is the concept proposal for the St Pancras Channel Tunnel Rail Link adjunct to the grade I listed station to be taken seriously? (RIBAJ February 03, p43.)
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Archive TitlesRole model
Praised for its innovative use of materials and response to a difficult site, Ian Ritchie's production centre for Plymouth's Theatre Royal was one of the highlights of last year's Stirling Prize shortlist. In a city where architecture barely rises above the very ordinary, is this the shape of better things ...
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Archive TitlesPlay misty for me
David Adjaye's Fog House isn't as unnerving as its predecessors: you could imagine living in it.
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Archive TitlesMind over matter
Snøhetta, Oslo-based architect of the Turner Centre in Margate, Kent, has just finished another competition-winning building: a brain research institute near Marseilles.
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Archive TitlesInto the limelight
Today's theatregoers expect more legroom and more loos while the management needs the latest lighting and scene-shifting technology. How do architects provide all this in an historic theatre?
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Leader
'We do not believe the man in Whitehall knows best,' said the senior civil servant leading the Building Schools for the Future programme (see page 10).