All Archive Titles articles – Page 92
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Up the union
Portsmouth students don't have to head for the city centre to blow their loans on a night out. Thanks to Hawkins\Brown, they have a stylish new union building packed with clubs, bars and cafes
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Archive TitlesThis sucks!
And it does it a lot better than any gravitational drainage system would. It's no wonder Foster, Grimshaw and Rogers are all specifying siphonic storm drainage products on their latest buildings.
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Archive TitlesScaling the pyramid
It is the ultimate open competition – a US$350m museum next to the Great Pyramid. But of all the 1553 entrants, do the Emmett brothers from Devon really think they stand a chance? We find out why unknowns go up against the superstars and what happens when they win.
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Archive TitlesMirror mirror on the wall
David Adjaye's last house attracted a storm of criticism when it was published in RIBAJ. Will his Dirty House, with its anti-graffiti paint and mirror windows, get a better reception?
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Archive TitlesLandscrapers
Flicking through it in a bookshop, one could easily mistake Landscrapers for an enlarged version of Thames & Hudson's 4x4 series, which gave us such ephemeral delights as Radical Tectonics and Concrete Regionalism.
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Archive TitlesRemaking the Landscape
It is a truth universally acknowledged – other than in North Korea and Cuba – that there is no situation that government intervention cannot make worse.
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Move over John
It will come as no surprise to learn that the government believes it has delivered, or is delivering, the urban renaissance as laid out by Lord Rogers and co back in 1999.By the time you read this, 13 ministers will have spent two days in a Birmingham convention centre telling ...
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Archive TitlesAt home with the RIBA
The title of the RIBA's main autumn exhibition – Coming Homes: 3.8 Million Reasons to Think About Housing – neatly sums up the problem with the UK's housing development. It all comes down to numbers. Government projections of the need for 3.8 million new homes are set against the current ...
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Archive TitlesOur Lady full of grace
Rafael Moneo's Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral has opened in Los Angeles.
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Laying the foundations
The main criticism of the RIBA – that it is 'just a trade union' – is both irritating and damaging.
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Data protection
Can your practice afford to lose £5000 for contravening the Data Protection Act? Thought not. So, you need to know the rules
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Archive TitlesGumuchdjian goes underground to solve London school's space crisis
Not far from Hampden Gurney Primary School, the Building Design Partnership project that made it onto this year's Stirling Prize shortlist, is another school that shares some of the same problems.
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Archive TitlesIn Commons
Small practices descended on parliament last month to try their hand at lobbying.
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Archive TitlesWe just clicked
Harry Seidler knows as well as anyone that photography is vital to the understanding of modernism. From his brother Marcell to Eric Sierins, he has commissioned some of Australia's best photographers.
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Archive TitlesChild of the city
Wedged into the historic centre of Edinburgh, the New Cowgate Nursery is a haven for children – and an impressive departure for Allan Murray Architects.
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Archive TitlesCentre of the universe
Online collaboration was meant to revolutionise construction. But it didn't exactly change many architects' lives. So why, years after the dotcom crash, is Autodesk relaunching its Buzzsaw tool?
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Upstart: Putting criminals out of business
How many crimes ever see the inside of a courtroom?
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Archive TitlesBuried treasure
Wine bottles, drink cartons and old newspapers. The contents of your bin bag may not look valuable but all these products – and others that are thrown away on building sites across the UK – could be turned into useful construction materials. Here's how …
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Simon Thurley
English Heritage's chief executive talks skills, museums and, of course, towers.
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Archive TitlesBalmond on form
Informal is a vivid and intriguing new book by Cecil Balmond, the man whose work puts meaning back into the cliché 'thinking outside the square'.