All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 100
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RIBA adds great Briton to photographic collection
The RIBA Library Photographs Collection has acquired the photographic archive of one of Britain's greatest 20th-century photographers, Edwin Smith (1912-1971)
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Expo 2002 runs like clockwork, but it'll make you forget other Swiss clichés
Expo 2002 is on until 20 October www.expo.02.chWhy would a visitor from the UK want to go to the Swiss Expo when it is, by its own admission, all about the 'attitudes and behaviour of Swiss people'? A cynic might say that the only reason this Expo jumps off the ...
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Archive TitlesThe verdict
On a sunny weekend in May, seven international architects joined editor Naomi Stungo to judge the 2002 World Architecture Awards. Two days later, they had chosen the 44 buildings that would fight it out for the US$30,000 top prize.
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Archive TitlesA step up
A 19th-century warehouse isn't the first place you'd expect to find the offices of a construction company. But thanks to Eva Jiricna, Amec's London base has a stylish contemporary interior – complete with one of her trademark steel-and-glass staircases.
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Archive TitlesThe Smithsons, by the Smithsons
Every page in this outstanding monograph on British brutalists Alison and Peter Smithson is meticulously laid out by the architects themselves.
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Archive TitlesThe stuff of legend
A trip to Robben Island has become a must-do for the intelligent traveller. Lucien le Grange's Cape Town ferry terminal had to balance the demands of the tourist trade and the claims of history – and it hasn't quite succeeded.
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Archive TitlesPower house
London has a new landmark. Foster and Partners' City Hall stands just across the river from the Tower of London and a short trip from the Houses of Parliament, but this glass-clad, energy-saving, fiendishly complex egg is a world away from the capital's other seats of power.
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Archive TitlesPhiladelphia gets Pelli tower
Cesar Pelli is to build a 30-storey tower in downtown Philadelphia
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Archive TitlesGet them out of the gallery
Laboratories is the Canadian Centre for Architecture's attempt to foster the work of six 'innovative research ateliers'. But wouldn't the exhibiting architects be better off designing buildings? We thought so – visitors to Montréal have until 18 September to make up their own minds
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Archive TitlesRenzo Piano to expand Meier landmark
Renzo Piano has been chosen to expand Richard Meier's High Museum of Art in Atlanta
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Five in race for young, gifted and Dutch prize
The Netherlands Architecture Institute has announced the first shortlist of a new prize for buildings by young Dutch architects
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Archive TitlesThree-act drama
Plans have been unveiled for the Kansas City Metropolitan Performing Arts Center designed by Moshe Safdie.The US$304m complex is perched on a 7ha hilltop site and will contain three auditoriums linked by a soaring glass enclosure that serves as a lobby.Construction is to start in 2004 and completion is scheduled ...
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Archive TitlesDazzling performance
Star names and astounding products have made Light + Building the Salone del Mobile of the lighting trade.
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Archive TitlesCrossing over
Nobody visits Bruges to see contemporary architecture. But, to mark its year as European Capital of Culture, Toyo Ito and Jurg Conzett have designed two footbridges that are easing the city into the 21st century.
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Competitions
Waterford docklands masterplanIreland's Office for Public Works is inviting submissions for an open competition to masterplan a 7ha docklands regeneration scheme for Waterford North Quays in the south-east of the country. The competition, which is offering €500,000 (US$470,000) in prizes, includes a major new cultural building for the city. Deadlines ...
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Three schemes vie for Canadian War Museum
Three schemes are under consideration for the Canadian War Museum, due to start on site in Ottawa this autumn.The design team is a joint venture between Moriyama & Teshima Architects of Toronto and Griffiths Rankin Cook Architects of Ottawa. The first design, Composition of Fragments, is a horizontal structure with ...
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Building types
The shortlisted buildings are also competing for six building type awards. The categories are: industrial, leisure, housing, education, public and cultural, and commercial
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Archive TitlesMexico's Ten scoops Brooklyn library
Enrique Norten of Ten Arquitectos has won an invited competition to design New York's first Visual and Performing Arts Library