All Archive Titles articles – Page 83
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Where have all the children gone?
Sited in the mountains and near the sea, colonie, which began in mid-19th century Italy, provided young children with an opportunity to escape the twin urban threats of tuberculosis and malnutrition by introducing them to the restorative benefits of sun, fresh air and thalassotherapy. Few early examples had purpose-built structures, ...
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Testing times ahead
Harmonising material specification throughout Europe is a fine idea. But variations between EU and UK tests to measure insulation's fire performance will give architects some hard choices
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Preacher woman
Mecanoo founding partner Francine Houben brings missionary zeal to her curatorship of Rotterdam's first architecture biennale. Its aim is to inspire architects to save – or least improve – the world.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Milan
You can still acquire a mock crock dining table complete with chinchilla fur throws at the Milan Furniture Fair but, like the great game hunters whose style it apes, Fendi Home's stand looks like an endangered species.
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Leader
We hit a brick wall this month when we tried to find UK examples for our planned feature on the three regeneration areas that will be the focus of the RIBA conference in July: Rotterdam, Liverpool and the Thames Gateway. There are plenty of buildings but not a lot of ...
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Three of Rotterdam's latest projects
Dutch cities have a bold attitude to design and Rotterdam has the confidence to take risks in its pursuit of beauty and function in urban renewal
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Archive TitlesGulliver's peace
Threats to buildings from slogans and penguins, plus Libeskind's sell-out boots take our roving reporter marching into May
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Guernica of our times
Saddam Hussein will soon seem a sideshow to the 21st century's redefinition of the relationship of cities to technology and the violent expression of power
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Archive TitlesNo more guessing games
New simulation software will allow architects to predict energy performance with unprecedented accuracy - and EU regulations make that increasingly important.
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Student life exposed
Architecture schools are often perceived as spending too much time on the mind-expanding conceptual stuff and not enough on preparing students for practice.
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Archive TitlesWho are Robbrecht & Daem?
The most fashionable Belgian firm of the moment, that's who. If you think that is not saying much, you are mistaken.
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Archive TitlesShape of things to come
Software advances are bringing fantastic building shapes such as Spacelab's Graz Kunsthaus from fantasy to reality.
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Is this Chipperfield's year?
Will David Chipperfield finally take the Stirling Prize with his own holiday house in Spain?
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Archive TitlesBroaden your horizons
If your practice is finding building commissions rather thin on the ground, take a look at the bigger picture. Masterplanning may not make you rich, but it can help cashflow and offer a variety of interesting work.
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The regeneration of Rotterdam has been going on for a long time
– much of the city fabric was destroyed in the first few weeks of the Second World War.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Hisham Ashkouri
Hisham Ashkouri, trained in Baghdad but now based in Newton MA, could be one of the first expatriate architects to advise on Iraq's reconstruction.
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Archive TitlesActs of dissolution
The first significant retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark's work in the UK was held at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1993.