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Archive TitlesThe stars at home
The cognoscenti preferred Palladio Mondo wallpaper but, in the early 1960s, one east Londoner lined his walls with cut-outs of his favourite celebrities.
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Archive TitlesSanta's little helpers
Christmas is a stressful time, but you can spread a little goodwill by giving useful and stylish gadgets to the architects you love. Stephen Pacey picks three of the best.
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Archive TitlesOn a Grander Scale
On a Grander ScaleLisa JardineHarper Collins£25Lisa Jardine begins her book with the one non-modernist architectural epigram that we all know: 'Reader, if you require a monument, look around you.' Odd, then, that over the 600 pages, barely 20 are devoted to St Paul's, the country's first, and perhaps only, really ...
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Archive TitlesSitting in the evening sun …
Few architects and artists can say they have been collaborating for 20 years. But Will Alsop and Bruce McLean have been working together on and off since they met at west London’s Riverside Studios in 1979. Without deadlines or a reason beyond the joy of creativity, they have spent summers ...
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Archive TitlesShop till you drop
Forget the new Selfridges and the January sales. If you're really into shopping, Tate Liverpool is where it's at. Its exhibition Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture includes Andreas Gursky's 99 Cent II (above), which captures the most exciting aspect of shopping – sheer consumption. With 'nothing over ...
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Archive TitlesUpstart: Jeremy Melvin's items for collectors
It is never easy to ascertain ownership of an idea, although patent and copyright lawyers give it a good shot. Ownership of objects seems rather more definitive. You can tie them down, lock them up or put them where you want them – or at least you might think so.
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Archive TitlesGet your coat
Not many homeowners would let an architect attach a rusting cube to their Georgian townhouse. Here's how Walter Menteth persuaded his clients – and the planners – that corten was the perfect material for an extension.
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Projected Cities: Cinema and Urban Space
Projected Cities: Cinema and Urban SpaceStephen BarberReaktion Books£10Gordon Matta-Clark and Patrick Keiller are the first names that come to mind when you think of architectural cinema, but their films are far from the only ones to resonate across the experience of the city.Stephen Barber’s study of this topic starts in ...
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A Christmas message
'And so this is Christmas and what have we done? Another year over, another begun …' What would John Lennon have made of the sustainability agenda? Surely with haunting voice and beautiful economy of word, he would have addressed this issue – dragging the subject again and again into the ...
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Principles Final certificates
The courts say a final certificate is evidence that a job is up to scratch. So take care when you issue one …
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Archive TitlesFamily business
21A John Street wasn't just another office refurbishment for Julian de Metz. It was a chance to get to know his grandfather – the building's original architect – better.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: MJ Long
MJ Long is one half of Long & Kentish, architect of the maritime museum in Falmouth (see pages 26-32), and the real-life other half of Colin St John Wilson, with whom she worked on the British Library. Q. What's it been like living with this project? A. Fantastic. It's been ...
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Archive TitlesThe ultimate bond
Forget fixings, bolts and glass fins. New research into high-strength glues is getting us closer to the day when architects will be able to build dreamy expanses of uninterrupted glass.
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The Devil’s Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire
The Devil’s Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed WireAlan KrellReaktion Books£16.95Like too much rich Christmas food, too many beautiful architecture books can leave you feeling a little queasy. So what better way to sharpen your senses for the year ahead than a cultural history of barbed wire? Barbed wire, or ...
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Archive TitlesArt of noise
Complaints about noisy neighbours are rocketing, so it's no surprise the acoustic regulations are being beefed up. Here's how wall coverings can help architects keep things quiet.
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Pevsner on Art and Architecture: The Radio Talks
Pevsner on Art and Architecture: The Radio TalksStephen GamesMethuen£20The introduction to this book is what you will have heard about. Written by Pevsner's putative biographer Stephen Games, it suggests that Pevsner admired Hitler and might have joined the Nazi party had he not been marginalised and forced to flee because ...
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Archive TitlesBawa, the gentleman architect
Geoffrey Bawa is one of the most significant Asian architects of the 20th century. He is also – you realise a few pages into David Robson's readable new monograph – just about the last gentleman architect on the planet.
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Archive TitlesWalters and Cohen unveils Hampshire homes with 'kerb appeal'
Walters and Cohen has won an RIBA competition to develop a new housing typology for Swaythling Housing Association in Hampshire.
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Japan: Architecture Constructions Ambiances
Japan: Architecture Constructions AmbiancesChristian SchittichBirkhäuser Edition Detail£65Fans of the architecture magazine Detail will need no introduction to the quality of its products: from the heavy luxurious paper to the line drawings for which it became famous. Its books – of which this one on Japan is only the fourth – ...
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Archive TitlesComing around again
Refurbishment isn't a word to set most architects' pulses racing but with the government spending £3bn on hospitals every year and £3.5bn on schools in 2003-04, as well as an office market worth £4.5bn, you really should be getting excited about it. We find out where the work is …