All Archive Titles articles – Page 8
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Low fees with us still
We have just lost another fee tender and I thought your readers might like to know that this sort of thing is still going on.
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Going Rambo
Let’s hope the expanded London Architecture Festival doesn’t fall prey to the flabby sequel syndrome.
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Archive TitlesIt's a shore thing
Terry Farrell, Edinburgh’s design champion, believes the city’s waterfront could provide it with a third identity to rival the Old Town and New Town. But that will require thinking beyond the red line of individually owned sites.
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Archive TitlesLetter from... Prescott Lock
Alan Gerrett, director of UK civil engineer Volker Stevin, describes the firm’s £20m commission to bring the Bow Back Rivers in east London’s Lea Valley back on stream.
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Archive TitlesWhat is Southwark Lido?
A place to plunge into architectural debate, that’s what. An overscaled paddling pool and a bathing deck conjured up on a vacant site on Union Street, London SE1, where bathers can luxuriate in a mist of warm spray (with music and light), and quench their thirst at the bar.
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To the Lighthouse
RIBAJ editor Hugh Pearman is to curate the first of a new series of exhibitions and monographs on emerging architects.
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Remembering Maurice
I was saddened to read of the death of Maurice McCarthy in the May issue of the RIBA Journal. Maurice was a colleague of mine throughout the 1980s and early 1990s at the London Borough of Hillingdon.
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Old-fashioned virtues
Running through your issue on British architecture (May 2008) was a theme of complex shapes, owing much to the new-found ability of computers to handle difficult equations, translating the architect’s imagination into cutting instructions.
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Ones to watch
On a recent visit to Switzerland, I saw an extraordinary exhibition in downtown Zurich about the work of a firm named Shagal Iodaa (Interdisciplinary Office for Design, Architecture and Art).
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Take me to the river
London’s biggest regeneration zone, the Lower Lea Valley, stretches from a Thamesside lighthouse to Waltham Forest, via the Olympic site. Stitching it together will be a 26-mile riverside park.
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Archive TitlesSweet Thames run softly…
Six sound installations along the Thames will celebrate the capital’s waterways and act as gateways to London Festival of Architecture events.
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Archive TitlesWorking upstream
Two years ago, the RIBA Constructive Change group published its Strategic Industry Study aiming to understand the future of the architectural profession in all its diversity, so as to suggest where it may be best positioned.
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Walking on water
It doesn’t take a miracle to build on water, but the logistics of amphibious housing design can make any architect long for dry land.
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Airport idea dates to 40s
John Wheatley’s letter in your April issue refers to the ‘startlingly original concept’ … ‘dreamt up in the 1960s’ ... of a ‘London airport built on reclaimed land east of the Thames Estuary’.
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Archive TitlesManagement software for architects
Welcome to Module 19 in our occasional series of CPD features designed to broaden your professional knowledge while you work.
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Archive TitlesZoom in zoom out by ‘Avatar’
Of course there are websites devoted to the architecture of various countries and cities
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Archive TitlesTies that bind
The undoubted rivalry between architects and engineers doesn’t hide their complex dependency on each other, says John Pringle
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Archive TitlesBlaze of glory
The destruction of the Crystal Palace by fire in 1936 came at a time when, although it had been in decline as a popular attraction, it was in historiographical terms enjoying a rebirth.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Architecture critic Ellis Woodman is poacher turned gamekeeper, curating the British Pavilion at this September’s Venice Architecture Biennale. Hugh Pearman asks him how he aims to communicate Britain at the show.
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Britishness
This issue has been a joy to assemble, and we know you’ll find it stimulating to read.