All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 104
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Brief encounter: Young Europeans
Last month, young designers gathered at the European Architects' Forum in Oporto to discuss the political and ethical dimensions of their work.
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Archive TitlesWhite blood cell
When your most famous work is a head filled with frozen blood, your studio can't be a mouldy garret. Here's how Proctor Matthews created a highly serviced, all-white space for Marc Quinn.
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Archive TitlesThis won't hurt a bit
Few small architects have got their teeth into healthcare design but, on a limited budget, Studio Azzurro has created a fun-filled, friendly dental practice that goes some way to counter the dread of the drill. We goe for a check-up.
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Between two schools
Nicholas Hare's Chafford Hundred Campus unites two Essex schools and serves as a hub for the community. But can it appeal to adults and children at the same time?
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Alms and the man
George Devey was one of the first to photograph his own work and the work of other, much earlier, architects. He used these records to help concoct a style of architecture that mixed different styles and dates
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Archive TitlesThe vanishing act
When the manager of Manchester band New Order asked Andrew Wallace to design an extension for her suburban house, he built something so invisible people just couldn't stop looking at it.
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A cut above
Gordon and Ursula Bowyer designed this sleek New York salon for Vidal Sassoon. Their client, a fan of modern architecture, saw himself as 'a sort of Mies van der Rohe of hairdressing'
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Archive TitlesSliver
Take a New York site just 7.6m wide, add an architect best known for radical theory and what do you get? A stunning steel and glass blade, a range of cultural spaces – and a big boost to Austria's reputation
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Saddam wants Olympics in Iraq
Saddam Hussein is formulating an audacious bid for the 2012 Olympic Games, and is calling for tenders from Western consultants to build an athletes' village in Baghdad
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Archive TitlesThe modest hero
When Glenn Murcutt won this year's Pritzker Prize, the international press struggled to explain why a man best known for humble houses had picked up architecture's glitziest lifetime award. World Architecture explains how he earned it and why he is inspiring architects on the other side of the world
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Work and play in Frankfurt
Tower One by Jean Nouvel is to be the first phase of an urban entertainment centre beside Frankfurt's trade fair site. It will be a 210m high glass office building with 51 floors and a sky lobby, surrounded by performing art venues, hotel, shops, offices and restaurants. Tower One is ...
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Archive TitlesThe forgotten man
Jean Prouvé is still a favourite among architects, but the rest of the world needs reminding that he designed some of the last century's best furniture. By reissuing key pieces, Vitra hopes to do just that.
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Rem flies the flag
Rem Koolhaas has designed a graphic identity for the European Union – including ideas for a new flag – in an attempt to make the EU capital Brussels seem less remote to the rest of Europe. Koolhaas' work was part of a report produced by a group led by author ...
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Archive TitlesRevisiting Fascist Italy
Stunningly illustrated and whimsical, the essays in this book discuss 74 Fascist-era new towns built in Italy and its African colonies.
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EU to rebuild tower houses in Kosovo
The European Agency for Reconstruction, the EU organisation funding the rehabilitation of Balkan war zones, is spending €550,000 (US$504,000) rebuilding five traditional tower houses in Kosovo
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Lake eerie
Diller + Scofidio's Cloud is one of the highlights of Expo 2002. And like many of the lakeside pavilions, it is designed to make visitors feel just a little bit uncomfortable
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Greek government in EU dock
European Commission issues writ over technical chamber's refusal to register foreign architects
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Green for go at Dessau eco-office
Work has started on the German federal environment agency in Dessau, Saxon-Anhalt
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Archive TitlesWhirling dervish
The Milan Furniture Fair is always manic. This year, visitors were thrown into a spin by the resurgence of curves, pouffes, beanbags and fantastic plastic. We pick the best pieces in town.
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Archive TitlesNeutra's Maslon House demolished
Architects condemn 'toothless' preservation system as seminal California work joins the list of lost modernist buildings