All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 114
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Child's play for US firms
The Children's Museum of Los Angeles has commissioned three architects to create its two new buildings. Local firm Angelil/Graham/Pfenninger/Scholl is to design the Hansen Dam Campus (pictured), while Edwin Schlossberg of New York has been named master exhibit designer. Californian practice Morphosis has been picked to design the Art Park ...
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The changing shape of Foster's egg
Debate is still raging over the design of the Greater London Authority building as it nears completion on the banks of the Thames
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Archive TitlesDesigns on the century
A torrent of events have been planned to mark the 100th anniversary of Arne Jacobsen's birth. But was Denmark's most celebrated designer in fact a minor architectural talent?
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Archive TitlesOpen and shut case
Doors do a lot more than separate outside and indoors. In the hands of Diller + Scofidio, Future Systems, Philippe Starck and others, they take your picture, put a boat on dry land and make you feel like Alice in Wonderland. Step inside to find out how
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Finland's latest embassy opens in Canberra
Washington, Berlin, Stockholm and now Canberra. The Australian capital has become the latest city to house a new Finnish embassy.
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New Yorkers campaign to save elevated railway
The Preservation League of New York State has placed a disused railway line on its 'Seven to Save' list of structures that should be protected.
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Calatrava bridge falls foul of disability lobby
A row has broken out over Santiago Calatrava's design for a new bridge on the Grand Canal in Venice, after it was revealed that it is not wheelchair accessible.
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Archive TitlesPrada's new bag
New Yorkers are flooding into the city's Prada store but they're doing more gawping than buying. So what is shopping expert Rem Koolhaas trying to tell us about high fashion? And why is the shop like a handbag?
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Denmark takes one step forward, two steps back
The winner of an international competition for a new concert hall in Denmark is to be named this month. But enthusiasm for the scheme may be dampened by disturbing news about two other high-profile projects in Copenhagen.
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Archive TitlesOut of the ashes
More than 60 years after the Nazis destroyed Dresden's synagogue, the Jewish community has a new – and strikingly contemporary – temple on the same site.
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Arup cures Millennium Bridge's wobble
London's much-derided Millennium Bridge has finally had its wobble removed and is ready to reopen to the public, two years late.
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'Magic box' arts centre unveiled in Athens
French practice Architecture Studio has unveiled its design for the €38m (US$33m) Onassis House of Letters and Fine Arts in Athens
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Move over St Basil's: Here comes the new wave of Russian architects
For more than 400 years, Moscow's cathedral has been the building that shouts 'Russia' to the rest of the world. But that might be about to change. A London exhibition on the country's young architects insists that they deserve a place on the world stage.
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Archive TitlesSouth Africa's green icon is scrapped
A pioneering green exhibition centre for the World Summit on Sustainable Development has been scrapped just months before the conference opens in Johannesburg.
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Dessau plans new works to mark Bauhaus' 75th
The 75th anniversary of the Dessau Bauhaus – one of the most important design schools in modern architectural history – is to be celebrated with an extensive programme of experimental new building.
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Show stopper
Riccardo Morandi wasn't Italy's best-known exponent of constructional rationalism but his experiments in concrete were more dramatic than most. Not many exhibition halls look this good …
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No walk in the park
Britain’s parks are in a sorry state but, despite the best efforts of regeneration bodies, reviving them is proving difficult. Find out how the government’s green spaces taskforce is proposing to tackle the problem and take a stroll around a few success stories.
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Principles: Professional negligence
The courts are taking a firm line with consultants in situations where the client would be left with no means of recovery if the consultant were not potentially liable.
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The Queens MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art's latest must-have merchandise is a bag emblazoned with the words 'MoMA Builds'.
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Living in Peabody London
Peabody People is a collection of five small books on the lives of 10 of the London housing trust's residents.