All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 120
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Rising stock
Marsh Grochowski's DH Lawrence Pavilion is a distinguished addition to Nottingham's park campus. With its striking colonnade and exquisite detailing, it is a fitting tribute to the university's most famous student.
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Reach for the sky
Rooflights have been used to stunning effect on some recent projects. But specifying them isn't easy. The technical considerations range from overcoming heat loss and potentially increased fire risk to choosing a material that is both strong enough to install safely and flexible enough to mould.
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Tasty morsel
Olive is the latest delicatessen-cum-corner shop catering for Manchester's new army of city-centre dwellers. And like many of their homes, it is a modern conversion of a Victorian warehouse.
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Packed lunch
Reiach and Hall's centre for St George's School serves 1000 school dinners a day but, after the lunchtime rush, the warm and inviting space acts as a meeting place for parents, teachers and locals.
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Space invaders
The new emphasis on teamwork and interaction in the workplace calls for flexibility in the division of office space, challenging designers to rethink and reallocate the partition.
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Lessons from history
The Torre Velasca dominated Milan's skyline and debates about modernism in the 1950s. For architect BBPR, the monumental building aimed to confront the past and 'engrave the sign of our times'.
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Public hanging
Banks, legal firms and drug companies are becoming the largest investors in modern art. A decent collection can do wonders for a firm's public face – but is it covering up dull corporate architecture?
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Grass roots uprising
Green roofs are no longer the preserve of the eco-architect. Thanks to technological advances and falling costs, they are entering the mainstream – and being specified for their looks as well as their environmental virtues.
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Tight fit
A university IT centre might not be every practice's dream job but for Richard Murphy Architects, which has just completed one in Edinburgh, the project was a chance to squeeze a big idea into a tiny landlocked site.
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Full of Eastern promise
Simplicity and the transformation of ordinary materials were the hallmarks of Mike Tonkin's Hong Kong work. For his latest UK project, he has developed these themes to turn a house into a jewel box and a studio into a camera.
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Sea change
E Brian O'Rorke was the first architect to design a liner's interior from start to finish. His thoroughly modern scheme for the RMS Orion was a world away from the faux-historic floating hotels of yore …
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Brand leaders
Stephen Greenberg and Christine Cheng Hanway approach architecture like marketing consultants, by 'making an experience'. But they say they're different from other young practices that espouse this philosophy: 'It's called pedigree'.
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Living in a box
What do you design for a photographer who wants to live, work and party in his tiny London studio?For Simon Conder, the answer was two timber cubes on wheels.
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Books: Christmas picks
The House Book, Phaidon Press, £29.95;Architecture Now! by Philip Jodidio, Taschen, £19.99;Alvaro Siza Complete Works by Kenneth Frampton, Phaidon, £60;Radical Landscapes by Jane Amidon, Thames and Hudson, £29.92;Terence Conran A Sort of Autobiography, HarperCollins, £20;Austerlitz by WG Sebald, Hamish Hamilton, £16.99;Concrete Design by Sarah Gaventa, Mitchell Beazley, £25;The Buildings of ...
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The big chill
After seven feverish years, the lottery bodies that funded the arts building boom are moving away from capital projects. And the private donors that used to match their largesse are feeling the pinch. So what will happen to the schemes still on the boards?
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Better by design
MicroStation Version 8 is a radical revision. Existing users will be impressed by the flexible file format, improved 3D rendering and design history feature, and new ones just might be tempted away from AutoCAD …
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The lawyer's art
City lawyers' offices aren't the first place you look for Britart masterpieces, but Simmons & Simmons' remodelled base is the home of about 300 works by Hirst, Emin and Co. Here's how ORMS created the perfect setting for the art and housed the firm's 1000 staff.
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Seeing is the point
Most people aren't interested in lighting, they're interested in seeing, and the lighting industry needs to take this on board if it is to educate people about lighting
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Lighting and landscapes
The Institution of Lighting Engineers (ILE) and the Landscape Institute are joining forces to organise a conference on the subject of lighting and landscapes - said to the first of its kind.
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Tenders invited lighting research
CIE-UK, the UK national committee of the International Illumination Commission (CIE) has said it is aware that lighting research in the UK, and elsewhere, has been decreasing for sometime.