All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 121
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The evening economy
Requirements for exterior lighting are constantly changing, with more emphasis on the role of lighting as a factor in the economic regeneration of urban centres
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Driven by design
A host of factors are brought to bear on the design of a new luminaire, factors that specifiers and end users are often unaware of. We investigate looks at some of the drivers.
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Lighting code on disk
The new lighting code is due to be launched on the 10th December and for the first time will be on CD as well as on paper.
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The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Refurbishment of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin presented the designers with a number of challenges
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Adding a little sparkle
Lighting of showcases in the Earth Treasury Gallery at the Natural History Museum has been improved with the use of multi-spot fibre optic light bars, adding sparkle to the range of gems and precious metals on display.
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Changing times for LG3
Since we announced in our last issue that there would be significant changes to Lighting Guide 3 (LG3), the Society of Light and Lighting has been working on the finer detail of these changes.
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Street works
A prescriptive brief and a tight budget don't have to add up to an uninspired scheme. In north-west London, Robert O'Hara has transformed a difficult high-street site into a striking block that contains private and social housing.
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Slide Rules
Slippery floors cause more injuries in the workplace than any other hazard. So what can you do to ensure the surfaces you specify won't send pedestrians flying?
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RM Schindler
RM SchindlerJudith SheinePhaidon£39.95If any individual bears out historian Carl Schorske's line that modernism can best be appreciated through studying a particular urban milieu, RM Schindler is a good candidate. He grew up and studied in Vienna at the time of Schorske's seminal study of the Habsburg twilight, and worked in ...
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Pirates on parade
With software giants losing more than £8bn every year to piracy, pressure is growing to expose the culprits. Stephen Pacey looks at the sticks and carrots the enforcement agencies are using to persuade companies to keep on the right side of the law.
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Out of place
A century ago, architects of the arts and crafts movement were exploring the utilitarianism of traditional farm cottages and barns. The vernacular is once again inspiring architects, but nostalgia is the last thing on their minds.
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Viva Las Vegas
It's the gambling capital of the world and the latest city to feel the Guggenheim effect. In fact Vegas has two Guggenheims designed by Rem Koolhaas. One is as gaudy as the strip; the other is more Russia than US of A.
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Intimate scene
It used to be a cowshed, and Nicoll Russell's new Byre Theatre pays homage to its bucolic past. It is an intimate, barn-like space made up of traditional courtyard forms and modest materials.
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Home from home
Samuel Bourne's pictures of 19th-century Calcutta provided those at home with reassuring images of how the Empire was imposing order on an alien world.
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The Good Life?
Although the profession has been only indirectly affected by the farming crisis, foot and mouth has thrown the spotlight onto the rural economy. As this month's RIBA Small Practice Conference addresses the subject of rural work, three architects tell us about their experiences.
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Material gain
David Adjaye's latest scheme – the £2m makeover of a flat on one of London's most exclusive roads – allowed him to explore his preoccupation with materials. The result is an abundance of cool limestone and rich woods, creating a sumptuous and intriguing interior.
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Très formidable
Phyllis Lambert first made her mark on architecture when, aged 27, she persuaded her father to hire Mies van der Rohe to design New York's Seagram Building. Almost 50 years on, as her exhibition on Mies opens in the centre she founded, Vicky Richardson met her in Montréal.
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In from the cold
The energy conservation regulations coming into force next April will introduce tough thermal efficiency targets for glass. For architects and glazing manufacturers, this means new products and a compromise between performance and cost.
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Mies in Berlin
Mies in Berlinedited by Terence Riley, Barry BergdollThames and Hudson£45In 1963, ludwig Mies van der Rohe told an interviewer: 'My main work is the planning of buildings: I have never written or spoken much.' Paradoxically, there is a total of more than 1000 pages in these two handsome books, published ...
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RIBA Journal Sustainability Award 2001
Michael Hopkins' Nottingham University Faculty Building beat four other contenders to this year's prize. Here's how the judges made their decision.