All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 103
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Zoo
ZooEric Baratray and Elisabeth Hardouin-FugierReaktion Books£28Zoo architecture is a contradiction in terms. Wild animals do not live in buildings and to put them in houses or enclosures of any kind is to destroy their very wildness. This creates a fascinating challenge for the architect. If the aim is to stop ...
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On the waterfront
In the first of our City limits series on the regeneration of urban black-spots, we find out how Richard Rogers, Will Alsop, John McAslan and Herzog & de Meuron are transforming the mean streets and riverside warehouses of Deptford
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Archive TitlesTale of the tape
How do you convince clients you're serious about sustainability? You set up a system that tests how green your projects are and then you get the environmental system assessed, that's how. So will you measure up?
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Archive TitlesSoft touch
Minimalism is all very well, but there's nothing like a rug to add colour and warmth. Overleaf, find out how Michael Hopkins, Squire and Partners and David Richmond are trying a little tenderness.
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Planning: Secrets of success
Knowing your limits can be the first step to a successful application
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New testament
On the 150th anniversary of Gaudí's birth, a team spread between Spain and Australia used state-of-the-art modelling techniques to complete another chunk of his famously unfinished Sagrada Família. Two team members, Mark and Jane Burry, explain how
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Our struggle with nature
Ninety years ago, one of the largest moving objects ever made by man collided with one of the largest moving objects produced by nature. The results were devastating. On that April night in 1912, some 66,000 tons of ship sank and more than 1500 people died in the waters of ...
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Archive TitlesLicensed to thrill
With its friendly functionalism and array of architectural toys – surprise hatches, moving mirrors and sliding panels – Form Design Architecture's slick loft conversion is the ideal hideaway for a secret agent.
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Principles: Limiting liability
Limiting your liability is harder than you think. Don't get snookered by an unclear brief or accused of 'over-designing'.
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Archive TitlesDoing it for the kids
A child's bedroom reflects the stages of its life from toddler through to teenager, yet few manufacturers have addressed the issue of a child's changing requirements – until now.A competition launched by retailer and manufacturer MFI and RIBAJ wants ideas for bedrooms that are flexible enough to grow with ...
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Archive TitlesWill Hakes join the superleague?
Big experienced architects tend to soak up the attention at the RIBA Awards, but every year at least one young practice breaks through.
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Archive TitlesSo you're gonna be RIBA president? This is what you need to know …
George Ferguson, who was elected as RIBA president last month, will take office in 2003.
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Archive TitlesMorley's flying saucer lands at RA
The first element of David Morley's scheme to rethink Regent's Park will go on show next week at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition.
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Archive TitlesFertile imagination
Forget dull bleached-out corridors and endless rows of doors. Buschow Henley's fertility clinic combines the formality of its science and admin spaces with a more relaxed atmosphere in the public areas.
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Archive TitlesSimple complex
Vincent van Duysen thinks we're hung up on the minimalist label. What he is after is a duality where different styles flow into each other. Where better to express himself than at B&B Italia and the menswear department of Selfridges?
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Archive TitlesStable companions
Brighton Dome and Museum must be the only arts centre originally built to house the horses and the mistress of a prince. How did Arts Team's renovation respect its history while creating a modern cultural complex?
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Colour White
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex Until 7 Julywww.de-la-warr-pavilion.org.uk
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Discreet charm
Unlike the architects of Manchester's other new museums, Michael Hopkins and Partners didn't have the luxury of a blank canvas. Its additions to the city art gallery had to be a little more polite
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Archive TitlesUpstart: Meet Richard Parnaby, Wales' new design champion
Wales is the probably the last place you would look for the best in architecture or urban design.
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Time to cell up
Until recently, solar panels sat on the top of buildings looking either ostentatious or just plain stupid. Now, with the government dishing out grants and new products raising the profile of photovoltaic design, architects are waking up to the beauty of solar power