All Archive Titles articles – Page 97
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A new spin
This month's round-up of new technology takes in a web service that helps architects keep their sites looking fresh, and the latest flatscreen displays
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A moving story
The Victorian gasholders at St Pancras were an integral part of the area's industrial landscape but, once work started on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, they had to come down. So how do you go about deconstructing and reassembling a listed structure?
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Parnaby to start Street Life
Richard Parnaby, head of the new Design Commission for Wales, is to kick off Street Life, the Urban Design Week conference. He will call for more emphasis on buildings’ effect on the urban realm.The week – a good warm-up for the government’s urban summit next month – will take up ...
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Health and safety: Injuries in the office
RIBAJ explains how to avoid a compensation claim
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Expand your horizons
Victoria Briggs, 32, is an architect at David Morley Architects. In her capacity as the practice's CPD organiser, she invited the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers to explain the nuts and bolts of locks and doors...
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Manser protects and serves at Tanzania embassy
A year on from the destruction of the World Trade Center, the issue of building security is right at the top of the design agenda
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Five in race for RIBAJ’s eco-prize
Five RIBA Award-winning buildings are in the running for the £5000 RIBAJ Sustainability Award
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Match of the day
You don't get many stars in non-league football, but Tooting and Mitcham United's latest signing has an impeccable pedigree. So what has former Foster and Alsop architect Peter Clash done for the south London club?
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Upstart: James Stevens Curl on life in death
Death is the only certainty in life. With a few exceptions, modern architecture has signally failed to grasp this truth.The acceptance of certain tenets after 1945 demonstrated the poverty of modernism's language, especially where a response to death was required. The ghastliness of British crematoriums, the inarticulacy of late 20th-century ...
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Town and country club
Letterkenny isn't the first place you'd look for avant-garde architecture. But thanks to local boy Tarla MacGabhann, it has arrived in the form of a council office that addresses the community as much as the landscape
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Brief encounter: Richard Wentworth
Meet the artist whose latest work labels King's Cross an area of outstanding unnatural beauty
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Blowup
Inflatable Art, Architecture and DesignSean TophamPrestel Publishing£19.95I like the opening line of this book: 'Most inflatable design is rubbish.' What the author has done is to sift through the rubbish and show us applications of inflatable technology in a wide range of disciplines, some kinky, some politically provocative and others ...
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Curve ball
Architecture and sculpture – where are they going? Round the bend judging by Niall MacLaughin's bandstand at the De La Warr Pavilion (pictured). If you want to know more about curvy and meaningful sculptural forms, try the Talking Shape conference in Winchester. Modelmaker Richard Armiger will talk about realising an ...
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Auntie Beeb's architecture week
As first promised in RIBAJ's exclusive interview with Roly Keating (see link, below), the BBC4 controller has set the date for the digital channel's week-long architecture fest. Five specially commissioned programmes examining contemporary British architecture will air from 16 September. Pop Goes the Museum is an insightful post-mortem of Sheffield's ...
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The Architect and his Wife
The Architect and his Wife: A Life of Edwin LutyensJane RidleyChatto & Windus£25'Father is a pure artist but completely inarticulate as regards his work and something of a bore about other things.' So wrote Lady Emily Lytton to her daughter Ursula.When Edwin Lutyens died on 1 January 1944, the obituaries ...
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Will the ARB turn back the cover?
Most practices are facing massive hikes in their insurance premiums, but the lowest-paid architects may be about to receive some good news
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Any new iron
Sergison Bates and 6A aren't the first architects to tackle door furniture. But they are among the few to look beyond the designer door handle and think about how ironmongery fits into buildings and people's lives
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Not another brick in the wall
Peggy Angus was working as a schoolteacher when she was 'discovered' by FRS Yorke. Her classroom linocut and potato prints impressed the YRM architect so much that he asked her to design a wall of tiles that would welcome visitors to his firm's school at the Lansbury Estate in east ...
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The top 50 clients
RIBAJ's top clients survey is back – and it's bigger and better than ever. This year, we asked a panel of expert judges to pick the 50 clients you should be desperate to work for. Here's what happened...
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And the winners are …
Hundreds of leading architects from around the world descended on the German capital for the 2002 World Architecture Awards on 26 July.