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Archive TitlesThe big picture
Andreas Gursky is known for vast photographs of the kinds of buildings normally overlooked. Now Herzog & de Meuron has converted a substation into a new home and studio for the artist.
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Herzog & de Meuron guest edit January issue
The January issue of RIBA Journal is a one off: RIBAJ has asked Stirling Prize winners Herzog & de Meuron to guest edit a special edition of the Journal. The architects have chosen all the buildings in the issue, selected the interview and helped with the news, collaborated on a ...
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Promoting women
Having read your editorial on why women are leaving architecture (RIBAJ November), I feel that to reduce the argument to better pay is somewhat simplistic.
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Archive TitlesVanishing point
Delugan_Meissl's penthouse apartment, with vast views over Vienna, is a modern take on the garret. But in the fluid space and sensuous finishes you'll find no sign of long-suffering artists.
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The office
'There are many standard plans of houses and flats, but to imply one or other of them is to lose half the advantage of employing an architect; for it restricts his scope, and makes new and worthwhile developments in house design all the less likely.'
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Archive TitlesWelcome: Refurbishment, London
Rivington Street StudioNearly every member of architect Charles Thomson's extended family seems to have worked on the refurbishment of this large house for a client in Hampstead.
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Idealism is a slog
In architecture, even more than in other professions, there is a clear link between hours spent on a design and quality.
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Archive TitlesHomes
(From RIBA Works December)One of this Christmas's bestsellers is bound to be Simon Jenkins' latest door-stopper, England's Thousand Best Houses.
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Archive TitlesHomes
One of this Christmas's bestsellers is bound to be Simon Jenkins' latest door-stopper, England's Thousand Best Houses.
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Archive TitlesVintage Holl
Steven Holl's intoxicating mix of wonky facades and triple-height voids at a winery project in the sleepy Austrian village of Langenlois has left locals drinking the architect's health.
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Gulliver in space
Tokyo goes underground, Parisians grow up at last, Moscow flattens and Greece cancels the cheese pie and coffee break.
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Good for the heart
Worthy but dull has been the attitude of the architectural elite and architectural press toward healthcare projects for many years.
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People in Glass-Houses
The piece about the Glass-House course in your November issue was sadly very negative (p12).
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Archive TitlesNow is good for FOA
Foreign Office Architects is riding a wave of glory. It has beaten Future Systems, Zaha Hadid and Ushida Findlay to win the BBC's Music Box in White City and has its own show opening at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.
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Archive TitlesSlide: House extension, London
Robert Dye AssociatesCommissions arrive in all sorts of ways, but it is not often architects get the chance to live in a client's house before working on it.
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Archive TitlesSavour: House extension, London
Tim Foster ArchitectsExtensions of ordinary two-storey houses usually involve going up into the roof.
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Jumbo egos
We live in an age of architectural superstars, fostered largely by an omnipresent media obsessed with the cult of personality.
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Archive TitlesHere’s one I made earlier
Rapid prototyping techniques already offer designers the chance to ‘grow’ their own models. Perhaps one day they’ll be able to conjure up the real thing.
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