All Archive Titles articles – Page 78
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Archive TitlesTop performers
A round-up of the latest roofing products and design tools - more at www.ribajournal.com/enquiries
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Archive TitlesThe sky's the limit
Since the Wright brothers first looked for somewhere to park, hangar design has been restricted to box-like sheds. Today, new technology for large span roof structures is allowing designers' imagination to soar.
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Leader
Frank Gehry is the latest architect to rise to the challenge set by the late Maggie Keswick Jencks to design spaces that make people feel better rather than worse.
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Archive TitlesJacobean tragedy
It is, I suspect, the now unread writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay and the school of Whig historians that still influence our attitudes to the past, the most persistent of which is 'Tudors good: Stuarts bad'.
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Archive TitlesGulliver's month
KPF's mini-metropolis opens in Tokyo, Francis Ford Coppola searches for Utopia and Gehry goes to the seaside
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Archive TitlesGoing upmarket
Valencia's neglected historic market gave London practice Borgos Dance its first big opportunity. A mixture of careful refurbishment and modern additions equips the building for a new life.
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Archive TitlesIn the lap of the gods
Out of an early morning mist swirl grotesque shapes – a giant head with gaping mouth and an inscription chillingly welcoming 'any philosophers'; a perilously leaning house resembling a film prop from the disturbed world of Dr Caligari; a gargantuan woman with an urn of flowers perched precariously on her ...
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Archive TitlesGet the picture
Endlessly duplicated digital images - but where's the one you need for the job? Digital asset management software can bring order to the chaos. Overleaf, a professional digital camera on test.
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Get a life, man
Doesn't Philip Waddy's attitude to work (RIBA Journal Aug 2003 p46) highlight exactly why there are so few women in architecture?
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Archive TitlesSelect gathering
Organisers of this month's 100% Detail exhibition are determined to show a mix of products and manufacturers architects won't have seen before.
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Exercise your options
I read with interest your editorial about innovation in the July issue and the article in the RIBA's Practice section (page VI) on Dr William Fawcett's application of Options Theory.
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Archive TitlesThe Gehry effect
It's 100th the size of the Bilbao Guggenheim but Frank Gehry's first building in Britain has his name all over it.
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Driven to extinction
Some species of buildings are sturdy enough to survive in a changing habitat, but many that flourished in the early days of the automobile will soon face the bulldozers.
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Exert your democratic rites
Britain has 500-odd local councils, most of them housed inadequately. Labour's emphasis on localising democracy could see more continental style redevelopments, putting town halls at the centre of urban life.
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The Conder I knew
It is in extremely poor taste, especially in an obituary, to say the deceased was 'overshadowed by his flamboyant partner' (Obituary, August, pXV).
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Archive TitlesClosed order
With no external elevations, Jamie Fobert's award-winning house in central London is a skilful manipulation of light and volume.
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Striking the right chord
A little addition to the feature on bats by Steve Markham (Practice, August, page II).
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Looks aren't everything
Many thanks for continuing with such interesting articles and absorbing reads in last month's RIBAJ.
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Archive TitlesUp the villa
Jean Nouvel's Musée Gallo-Romain in Périgueux, south-west France, which opened last month appears, from a distance, to be barely more than a vast, wafer thin roof.
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Tall storey
Bill Mitchell's reference to Paul Newman's smouldering architect in The Towering Inferno (July, page 20) took me back to a night in 1975 in a cinema in Lusaka.