All Archive Titles articles – Page 84
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Archive Titles3. Reclamation project
Katendrecht Haven was once a lawless port area rife with prostitution, drugs and street fights. Now Rotterdam is reclaiming it as a residential area and a beacon for future redevelopment.
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Archive Titles2. City slicker
Bosch Architects' City Building is an urban sophisticate intended to raise the tone in a long neglected area of Rotterdam.
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Archive Titles1. Pleasure garden
The first of three examples of Rotterdam's regeneration programme, KCAP's apartment blocks and school make a humane and intelligent contribution to a mini-city ranged around a garden square
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Archive TitlesSpeaking the vernacular
Contemporary architects are often in the habit of presenting their work as 'innovative', but Paul Oliver's book is a reminder that there are very few genuinely new ideas around.
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Archive TitlesPlaying in the ruins
Lured by a fascination for its mysterious monuments, many early photographers made their way to Egypt.
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The office
The highlight of last month's Small Practice conference was easily the bit where three architects pitched for work in a hypothetical competitive interview.
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Archive TitlesLight work
Every architect knows illumination can make or break a design. Whether it's natural or artificial, strip or spot, way marker or wallwasher, if it isn't up to scratch, the project is literally put in the shade. We ask six architects what they're specifying and why …
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Leader
Has the Oscar approach to architecture reached its apogee with the World Trade Center competition?
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Archive TitlesMorimoto; Karim Rashid, Philadelphia, USA
Forget Ready Steady Cook. In the USA, Japanese import Iron Chef reigns supreme.
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Archive TitlesInside out
From Mies onwards, architects have used continuous flooring indoors and outside. Here's how to specify and detail a material for all seasons.
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Hunting the quarry
More and more architects are finding that the best way to guarantee the quality of their stone and make sure it is the right strength and colour is to go right to the rock face.
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Archive TitlesHard luck
Azman Owens wanted to build a concrete family house. Only trouble was, it didn't have any experience of using the material and nor had its contractor. Plus, the client was deeply suspicious. The result was … something extraordinary.
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Gulliver's war
Cracks at the UN, clean-ups in Beijing and, of course, conflict in Iraq feature in the latest round-up from our man Gulliver.
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Archive TitlesFull of holes
Steven Holl says his Simmons Hall dormitory at MIT was inspired by nets and sponges. Its grid is thrilling but have all these windows created more problems than they solve?
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Archive TitlesFree radical
As co-director of Alabama's Rural Studio, Andrew Freear tells his students that the most important thing they can learn is not how to design a building but how to talk to each other, their clients and their community – including the odd convicted murderer.
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Euroluce
Furniture isn't the only reason to go to Milan this month. Alongside the famous Salone there's the 22nd Euroluce lighting show. We round up some of the best products in Europe.
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Archive TitlesEdouard François; Office fit out, Paris
Edouard François, architect of the Growing House in the south of France, has taken his idea of vegetal architecture to the new offices of advertising agency ENJOY.
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Weapon of mass distraction
The World Trade Center showdown wasn't a competition. It was a spectacle, put on to distract us from some pretty dubious political and commercial manoeuvring.
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Sketch; Manser Practice, Central London
Sketch is a VIP zone. That means glamorous clientele, flattering lighting and designer style.
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Archive TitlesCardboard furniture
In the first of Gareth Williams' series on iconic materials, why cardboard furniture is no laughing matter