All Archive Titles articles – Page 94
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Archive TitlesTimber!
They say wood is expensive but you don't need to live in the lap of luxury to get The Wood Book onto your shelves – just a cool £50.
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Archive TitlesSteel zeppelin
Airship hangars are icons of functionalist architecture – as well as German history. This one was built in 1931, one of a number designed to house a fleet that included the Hindenburg.
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Archive TitlesSpinning a yarn
When Marshall Lloyd invented Lloyd Loom in 1917, he told everyone the material was 'woven fibre'. Even today, hardly anyone knows it is little more than wire and paper.
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Archive TitlesVictorian plum
Oliver Chapman worked with lighting designer Jonathan Speirs on this extension to a 19th-century house, turning its bleak rear into a sun trap.
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Archive TitlesWhat’s Next?
It’s the theme of Venice’s eighth Biennale, that’s what, curated by Deyan Sudjic and previewing the future of world architecture as the big players see it. In what is perhaps the organisation’s best show to date, there are a ton of treats to be seen. If only they’d get over ...
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Archive TitlesManchester memento
Memory plays tricks on us, and never more so than in Nathan Coley's artwork for Manchester's Fabrications, an exploration of urban memory by six artists.
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What makes a winner?
It's Stirling Prize time again and I am writing this piece en route to Edward Cullinan's gridshell at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum near Chichester.
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Liabilities to landlords
If you work for a building tenant who later goes bust, does that make you liable to his landlord?
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Archive TitlesLegends of the labyrinth
Deep in the hidden book stacks of Senate House, Robert Hutson has created a new centre to house ancient texts, and lined it in glass and steel.
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Archive TitlesKey to the loch
Subtle mediation between the manmade and the natural realms is the key to the success of Bennetts Associates' tourist and information centre at Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park.
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Archive TitlesStill got it?
As architecture's great and good head to Gateshead for the 2002 Stirling Prize, we revisit the last three recipients of the award – Magna, Peckham Library and the NatWest Media Centre – to find out how the buildings are standing up. Do the people who use them think they're winners?
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Archive TitlesNew Eye view
As if the BA London Eye weren’t popular enough, artist David Mach has filled the gardens below it with a collage of flowers and people frolicking and picnicking – he has even dropped in a pigeon.
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Archive TitlesRomantic dinner
For Max Clendinning, interiors were the romantic landscapes of the modern world. This remodelling of his own Victorian house shows him at his most inventive and iconoclastic.
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Archive TitlesHover craft
Glenn Howells' homage to Mies van der Rohe is a crisply detailed glass pavilion that seems to float effortlessly above a moat, barely disturbing its idyllic setting.
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Archive TitlesOh so cool
Time was, the must-have item to impress friends was a DVD player or an iMac. These days, it's more likely to be the latest kitchen appliance, such as the fridge that broadcasts television programmes, allows internet access and plays music. Oh yes, it also keeps your food cold.
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Archive TitlesCall of the wild
Holiday retreat, guest suite and wildlife hide, Andy Ramus' versatile boathouse embraces all the functions its client demanded thanks to a minimal structure that dissolves the barrier between inside and out. It also holds fabulous parties.
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Archive TitlesEH gets hot under the collar over new Building Regulations
English Heritage is concerned that many buildings of 'architectural, townscape, landscape or historic interest' will be forced into insensitive alterations to comply with the new Part L.
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Archive TitlesBack from the brink
Our City limits series on regeneration heads to Bradford, to find out how the city is working to escape its turbulent past with projects such as Urban Splash's redevelopment of Manningham Mills. And on the eve of the urban summit, what lessons can it offer the rest of the ...
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Archive TitlesJust hanging around
How do you design a bedroom that children will want to spend time in – from their first birthday to their 18th? For Ash Sakula, winner of the RIBAJ/MFI prize Room to Grow, you use every scrap of space to create a flexible paradise.