All Archive Titles articles – Page 72
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Pulses don't race
and hearts don't beat faster when the subject is planning – unless it's happening in your back yard.
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Archive TitlesSpot the difference
Platform 1, Gollifer Langston's city learning centre above King's Cross, exudes a quality rare in education buildings that have to fight for every penny of their budgets.
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Euro Norm is coming
Eyelids may droop at the words 'harmonisation' and 'European construction law' – but architects need to know where they stand. RIBAJ assesses the state of play.
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Signature buildings are the last thing on the minds of the King's Cross masterplanning team
For London's biggest reconstruction for 150 years, there will be high principles but little prescription.
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Archive TitlesArchitects hit ice
Lapland has some of the most sparsely populated areas in Europe – with good reason.
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You wait for ages, then…
Big-number government investment is making transport a fertile ground for practices, with projects ranging from the lowliest bus shelters to international railway hubs serving major cities.
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Archive TitlesAction station
Theis and Khan’s outdoor activity centre on the Regent’s Canal in King’s Cross is a beacon of architectural ambition among the tin sheds
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Archive TitlesTwisted thinking
Valerio Olgiati’s work has been described as ‘holding up a distorting mirror to the culture of which he is part’.
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Archive TitlesSmash+grab
Conceptual artist Ai Weiwei, who is collaborating with Herzog & de Meuron on Beijing's new Olympic stadium, has a robust way of challenging notions of value and authenticity in Chinese culture.
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Archive TitlesWhat is a Schaulager?
If you don't know yet, you can discover in May, when Herzog & de Meuron's Schaulager in Basel hosts an exhibition of the practice's work.
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Mexican wave
Fernando Romero's egglike extension to a house in San Angel is one manifestation of a new wave of Mexican architecture that embraces a more open relationship with the outside world.
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Secret life of planes
Surfaces are bursting beyond their role as vehicles of architectural expression for a new life as powerful, mutating, interactive modifiers of our environment.
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Archive TitlesLeader
Inviting a celebrity to act as a guest editor can simply be a way for a magazine to raise its profile and put on sales: when Cherie Blair took over the reins at the women's magazine Prima, she shifted an extra 100,000 copies.
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Archive TitlesImage makers to the stars
Christian Grou and Tapio Snellman work from a corner of Herzog & de Meuron's London office.
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Archive TitlesFlawed genius
Basel practice Christ & Gantenbein shares Herzog & de Meuron’s interest in playing with surfaces. In this extension to a 1920s villa, the architects were fanatical about details but positively encouraged some imperfections.
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'Every project is a departure'
Herzog & de Meuron believes in constant reinvention. The practice has 40 projects on the boards – RIBA J looks at the thinking behind five of them.
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Archive TitlesComing down the line
aThink of Switzerland and you think of railways – that always run on time.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter - Stefano Boeri
The architect and writer Stefano Boeri takes over from Deyan Sudjic as editor of Domus this month.