All Archive Titles articles – Page 88
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Archive TitlesThe sporting life
After 40 years of neglect, Camden is taking up exercise. Here's how David Morley Architects is helping the borough shape up.
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Archive TitlesShot in the arm
David Sarkisyan invented one of the best-known Alzheimer's drugs. Now director of Moscow's state museum of architecture, he is injecting some much-needed vitality into Russian design.
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Archive TitlesBreath of fresh air
Conventional wisdom says a ventilated roof is the best way to top a house. But it ain't necessarily so. A new sealed version locks in more heat and cuts carbon dioxide emissions.
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Archive TitlesWinning streak
Monaco hasn’t always been a haven for the rich and famous. Here’s how Charles Garnier’s exuberant casino helped to turn the principality into a playground.
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Archive TitlesProtect and serve
Walter Menteth's housing in Haringey is a secure yet generous response to the needs of its mentally disabled occupants, and a new landmark for the run-down Tottenham area in which it stands.
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Archive TitlesNow you see it …
Pringle Richards Sharratt's winter garden is a brave attempt to reinvigorate Sheffield city centre. But with buildings growing around it faster than its own foliage, is it ever going to be fully appreciated?
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Letter of the law
You have just two months to gen up on the next set of changes to the Building Regulations – from new rules on acoustics to standards for fire safety. Here's what you need to know …
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Archive TitlesUpstart: Malcolm Fraser on the new Edinburgh Old Town
The fire that started on the night of 7 December, in the middle of Edinburgh's World Heritage Site, should remind us of a few simple facts: that architecture is not just, or even first, about buildings; that heritage can be about a particular pattern of urban occupation as much as ...
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Doctor in the house
Is your building feeling a little under the weather, creaking with old age or plagued by a blocked breathing system? Perhaps it's time to call in the building pathologist to give it a health check. But just how far can we take the comparison between construction and human pathology?
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Archive TitlesStare case
Replacing an Edwardian house with an uncompromising piece of modernism was bound to raise eyebrows. But Fraser Brown MacKenna's luxurious home, complete with leather-covered stairs, will turn heads.
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Principles: A case on contribution
Architects and clients will always argue about net contributions. One recent ruling will make them easier to agree.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Zoë Ryan
Zoë Ryan is co-curator of Renewing, Remembering, Rebuilding, an exhibition opening this month at The Lighthouse in Glasgow.
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Archive TitlesGehry in the bag
The new year begins with yet another book on Frank Gehry, a paperback small enough to slip into a bag.
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Archive TitlesSauerbruch Hutton does art house in Munich
Munich's image as the chocolate-box capital of German architecture is being turned on its head thanks, in part, to a string of new museums.
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Time for a Royal Institute of British Architecture
My mother-in-law was astonished at my inclusion in The Economist’s December listing of the top 100 UK jobs.
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Archive TitlesGuy Greenfield gives Falmouth another landmark – and the planners love it
Falmouth is firmly on the map since the opening late last year of Long & Kentish's maritime museum.
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Archive TitlesThe best and worst of 2002
It was quite a year and, now that the Hogmanay hangovers are fading, it's time to take a more honest look at the past 12 months. So here are RIBAJ's best building, most glamorous event and biggest PR coup – but also the worst city, the juiciest scandal and more. ...
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View from the top
Want to know what you'll be doing for a living this year? We find out which sectors property giant Lend Lease is feeling confident about and you tell us what has been affecting your business …
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Archive TitlesSix vie for Pentagon memorial
Four New Yorkers, a Canadian and a New Zealander receive US$20,000 to develop concepts for Washington site.
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The major league
We all know it's been a difficult year. Over the next 26 pages, we find out how everyone from the biggest hitter – Nikken Sekkei again – to the little leaguers has fared. There's the top 300 table, fees per architect and top 10s for regions and market sectors: everything ...