All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 102
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Archive Titles12 win Governor General's Medals
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts have unveiled the winners of the Governor General's Medals in Architecture, awarded for recent projects by Canadian architects. The 12 winners of this biennial award include the Strawberry Vale School in Victoria by Patkau Architects, Richmond City ...
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Walking and watching
Staring up at a surveillance camera is an act of rebellion in our over-protected world.
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The results
We asked 127 architects how they chose new materials and what they picked. Here's how they find innovative products and, right, the six most popular materials …
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Archive TitlesSalford Quay shines on
Salford Quay – home of shiny buildings the Lowry and the Imperial War Museum North – is getting a shimmering addition: a floating sculpture of stainless steel by Alison Wilding
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Archive TitlesThe new wave
From Crystal Palace to Gehry's Guggenheim, new materials have helped architects take leaps forward. But when we asked practices to list the innovative products they use, we were shocked by the results.
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Archive TitlesThe materials
Priva-Lite and coloured glass Of course, glass has been around for years but many respondents were particularly excited by new glass products – particularly Priva-Lite from Saint Gobain. The company first planned to use it on the partitions between drivers and passengers in taxis. Now it is used primarily for ...
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Archive TitlesThrough the looking glass
Ian Simpson's sleek Urbis museum is designed to give visitors a clear view of the buildings and people of Manchester. But is anything going on inside?
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Archive TitlesSpeed freak
Clients love virtual walk-throughs, but they just take so long to create. Except they don't any more. Welcome to the super-fast world of Real Time Real Estate.
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Staring the future in the face
Those of you who couldn't attend the RIBA conference in Birmingham missed a cracking good event.
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Archive TitlesFlour power in Gateshead as Ellis Williams' gallery opens
Provided the fog on the Tyne clears up in time, this month will see the opening of Gateshead's long-awaited Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
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Archive TitlesPostcards from the edge
This may look like a picture of a shopping precinct to you. In fact, it's an example of how the humble postcard has helped to shape the public's view of architecture since the 19th century.
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'I tried hard to find a drawing, model or scheme I liked. I didn't'
That's Andy Bow's take on Westminster's end-of-year show. He is one of five leading architects we sent to schools around the UK in an attempt to answer the question worrying the whole profession: does the education system prepare students for practice?
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Archive TitlesMiracle cure
From the road, Sheppard Robson's new headquarters for Pfizer isn't particularly dramatic. So it's lucky that the main entrance is truly spectacular – the perfect tonic if the pharmaceutical giant's 800 employees get the Monday morning blues.
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Principles: Net contribution clauses
A net contribution clause is an excellent way to limit your liability, if you can persuade your client to agree to one …
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Archive TitlesAnd now back to the studio
These days, £2.2m won't even buy you a British gangster flick. At Aberystwyth university, it paid for Patel Taylor's imposing film, television and theatre school.
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Archive TitlesThe Charged Void: Architecture
This large book (about 600 pages and 3kg) by Alison and Peter Smithson brings together all of their ideas on architecture.
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Archive TitlesUpstart: John Burrell on housing associations' anti-social tendencies
It's difficult to criticise the providers of social housing.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter - Anthony Hunt
The legendary engineer whose career spans from the 1965 Reliance Controls factory to the Eden Project has just retired. Find out what he plans to do next …
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Archive TitlesForeign Office's origami adds wow factor to Yokohama ferry terminal
If you like your buildings with more twists than a bowl of noodles, visit the just-completed Yokohama International Port Terminal in Japan.