All Archive Titles articles – Page 87
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What does it all mean?
Will someone explain what 'sustainability' means? I suspect the word is completely wrongly used and that many people have different ideas of its meaning.
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Archive TitlesSchool's out
Driven by the perceived health benefits of fresh air and progressive educational theories, open-air schools flourished in the inter-war period.
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The office
You might like to cultivate the Audi TT-driver image but, from discussions with my friends, it appears that this is a profession of cyclists.
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Archive TitlesLooking three ways
Different ways of considering architecture are explored in a series of books out this month.
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Archive TitlesThe natural look
Gaudí had to use plaster models and weights to experiment with natural forms. Christoph Ingenhoven has it a little easier. He tested his design for Stuttgart station with Buro Happold's Tensyl software – and revered architect/engineer Frei Otto.
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Poison Ivy
Bill Mitchell, dean of architecture at MIT, kicks off his new monthly column with a blast at the faux gothic monstrosities blighting top US campuses.
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How green is my valley?
Mimram Valley, landscaped by Humphry Repton, is in the metropolitan green belt.
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Archive TitlesThe word of God
Few building types offer more apparent freedom for spatial expression than churches, and few institutions have been more given to soul-searching than the churches.
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Archive TitlesGerman moderns
In the bookshops are two new publications on German architects at different ends of the spectrum.
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The name game
I was most concerned to read in January's RIBAJ that our president might support a suggested change of the institute name to the Royal Institute of British Architecture (page 10).
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Archive TitlesSo you want to enter Europan ...
Europan is a biennial competition that endeavours to 'help develop and promote young European architects' and 'find innovative architectural solutions to urban problems'.
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Archive TitlesHoop dreams
The government is about to double its spending on sports buildings but its £100m is peanuts compared to the cash provided by councils and the lottery. Yet even these funds haven't stopped public facilities falling into disrepair. There's plenty of work to be done – here's how you can win ...
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Dreamers need a platform
I'm in thorough agreement with Paul Hyett's Christmas message promoting sustainable architecture (December 2002, page 10).
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Archive TitlesHowells' crowning glory
Glenn Howells is finalising a design for a £3.5m visitor centre in Windsor Great Park.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Dan Cruickshank
Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank has been in Iraq filming for the latest in his occasional series Lost Cities, which will be shown on BBC2 this month.
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Archive TitlesUp, up and away
In our new global round-up, 1km high solar towers, Ground Zero latest, Chernobyl and Rem in China.
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Archive TitlesIs this the new asbestos?
You might not have heard of Stachybotrys, but you can bet that your insurance company has. It's one of a group of toxic moulds that could be in a building near you, and lead to a very nasty claim.
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Archive TitlesShowstopper
After its sell-out performance in Southwark, Herzog & de Meuron has pulled off a spectacular routine in Deptford: creating a breathtakingly simple yet brilliantly innovative dance school.
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Archive TitlesLight switch
After seven years with David Chipperfield, Henning Stummel is going it alone. His debut is a London mews house that has been dragged out of the dark.