All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 110
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Archive TitlesConference call
The TUC is ditching its old adversarial image and has modernised its London headquarters to prove it. These days, it makes a fortune letting out its high-tech new facilities to City firms. Hugh Broughton was the architect who brought the building into the 21st century.
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Breaking the mould
Copthorn Homes wanted neo-Georgian for its East End development. Thanks to architect Proctor Matthews, what it got is a new model for high-density city living
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Archive TitlesA brush with St Basil's
Nineteenth-century lantern slides, projected onto a wall or screen, were the precursors of today's 3mm slides. Often hand-coloured, they presented views of architectural subjects and transformed the study of architecture.
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Archive TitlesAvoiding the cracks
There's more to renovating a 19th-century glasshouse than replacing the broken windows. As Tim Bushe found out, it's all about the definition of conservation and the art of compromise.
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Archive TitlesFor art's sake
Artworks look their best when viewed by daylight but too much of it can ruin them. How do you get the lighting levels just right on gallery projects? The answer is adjustable shading.
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Debate: The view from the ARB
For the past two months, our mailbag has been filled with worried letters about the new minimum rate for PII cover. Here, ARB registrar For the past two months, our mailbag has been filled with worried letters about the new minimum rate for PII cover. Here, ARB registrar Robin Vaughan ...
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Andrew Doolan
Meet the Scottish architect and developer who is bankrolling the new £25,000 RIAS Award for Architecture.
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Planners burst Alsop's bubble
Will Alsop's preparations for his first London exhibition were spoilt when he was told that the city could do without an over-inflated windbag.
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Archive TitlesAll American: Innovation in American Architecture
When a book called All American: Innovation in American Architecture features an armed forces recruiting station as its first project, it questions the cliché that Americans have no sense of irony.
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Artists, child actors and tired walkers find shelter in Hakes' converted barn
In the 16th century, the twisted timbers of the Aisled Barn in Lancashire stooped over peasants as they threshed their crops. Today, they frame installations and school plays.Young London practice Hakes Associates has converted the grade II-listed building into an exhibition centre that also serves as a shelter for walkers ...
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Those four little letters …
A couple of weeks ago, I joined the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire branches of the RIBA for their evening meeting.
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Country living on Channel 4
'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderston.' That could be the cry of volunteers for Edwardian Country House, Channel 4's upcoming sequel to The 1940s House.
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Archive TitlesTreading water
Schmidt Hammer & Lassen's headquarters for Nykredit is by far the finest new building on Copenhagen's waterfront. Yet, along with other developments nearby, it has stolen the harbour from the city. By Merete Mollerup
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Archive TitlesUnder the skin
London's financial district is filled with air-conditioned office space. But thanks to Arup Associates' research into double-skin facades, those energy-guzzling boxes are about to get a greener neighbour: a naturally ventilated complex whose occupants can actually open their windows.
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Archive TitlesShanghai skyscraper to be world’s tallest
Tokyo contractor Mori Building has announced plans to restart work on the Shanghai World Financial Center after tweaking the design to ensure that the skyscraper is the world’s tallest building. Construction started on the mixed-use tower, originally designed by New York architect Kohn Pedersen Fox to be 460m high, in ...
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Archive TitlesNouvel takes to the stage
Jean Nouvel is to design a US$125m three-auditorium complex for the Guthrie Theatre, one of the most important regional theatres in the USA.
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Archive TitlesWhat’s new
The latest cladding and roofing products from acoustic panels to ETFE pillows.
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Archive TitlesMemento mori
Sachsenhausen was Nazi Germany's first concentration camp and went on to become a Soviet prison. Today, it is the site of a museum devoted to its post-war incarnation. So how does Schneider + Schumacher's building address this terrible history?
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Archive TitlesLost in space
Forty years after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in orbit, Adam Bartos became the first Westerner to photograph the buildings and people behind the Soviet space programme. Some of his elegiac images are reproduced here.
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Yale man to lead New York plan
The body overseeing the redevelopment of the Ground Zero site has hired a prominent architect/planner to lead the project.