All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 125
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Plotting revolution
WoHa Architects' three houses do far more than meet Singapore's strict planning regulations. They give equal status to interior and exterior spaces, and make sense of an irregular, tight plot.
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What Switzerland did next
Stylewriters have devoted thousands of words to fashionable Swiss architects such as Herzog & de Meuron. What they failed to mention is that there is a younger generation of designers doing high-quality work. Over the next 16 pages, we meet Switzerland's new guard.
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Mix and match
Herzog & de Meuron may be Swiss architecture's best-known export, but its latest project – a 'bubblewrapped' football stadium and spiky elderly people's home – is back in its hometown of Basel. Naomi Stungo got a sneak preview.
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A life less ordinary
world architecture investigates how four architects in Singapore, Australia, the Netherlands and the UK are tackling the big issues in housing design – sustainability, density and homeliness.
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Netherlands: House of orange reborn
Orange is synonymous with the Netherlands to anyone who has watched its national football team and their tangerine-tinged supporters. But one Dutch graphic designer has taken the love of orange a step further, and commissioned this bright live–work space in Amsterdam.Studio Thonik cites orange as a favourite colour and MVRDV ...
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Green shoots
Eco-architect Bill Dunster can understand why some people have called him 'nutty'. But he is now winning mainstream acclaim for his sustainable housing development in south London and offering his urban, environment-friendly vision to Shanghai.
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Sector focus - Housing
world architecture investigates how four architects in Singapore, Australia, the Netherlands and the UK are tackling the big issues in housing design – sustainability, density and homeliness.
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Germany: Silence falls at Meschede monastery
New meets old in Peter Kulka's latest project, the 'house of silence' guesthouse for a Benedictine abbey in the town of Meschede.The addition to the Cloister of Königsmünster has an idyllic setting, located in an orchard of apple trees just below the main abbey building. Working with project architect Konstantin ...
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Eternal hero
To celebrate the 100th issue of world architecture, we commissioned Sarah Williams Goldhagen to take a fresh look at the life and work of Louis Kahn, who would have been 100 this year.
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Dark star
Liechtenstein may not be on most tourists' itineraries, but the tiny principality has a world-class art collection and a museum to match in Morger, Degelo and Kerez's concrete 'meteorite'.
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Cultural exchange
Josep Lluís Mateo says his international work is a dialogue between north and south. His Borneo Island housing in Amsterdam is an encounter between Dutch brickwork and warm woods.
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Country focus - Switzerland
Stylewriters have devoted thousands of words to fashionable Swiss architects such as Herzog & de Meuron. What they failed to mention is that there is a younger generation of designers doing high-quality work. In this feature, we meet Switzerland's new guard.
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Concerted effort
Philadelphia's almost completed Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is more than a concert hall. It is the centrepiece of a campaign to put the city on the cultural map.
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Out of the closet
'Androgynous' toilets, clear glass capsules and washing/living rooms will replace white porcelain and tiles if David Adjaye, Barber Osgerby and Dornbracht get their way. They are just some of the architects and manufacturers working to design the bathroom of the future.
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USA: Schrager and Starck's Clift Hotel reopens
San Francisco's Clift Hotel, an Italian Renaissance-style palace built in 1913, has reopened after a makeover by Philippe Starck and entrepreneur Ian Schrager.Located near Union Square, the hotel is the pair's eighth collaboration since the Royalton Hotel in New York, completed in 1988. As in their other projects, the public ...
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France: Miniature dream homes sold for charity
Houses designed by Jean Nouvel, Bernard Tschumi, Odile Decq, Renzo Piano Building Workshop and a host of other architects have been auctioned off at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris.
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Germany: Sauerbruch Hutton's candy stripes
Sauerbruch Hutton has transformed Magdeburg's Hochschule into a wildly coloured 'experimental factory'.The Hochschule, a research institute where academia and industry meet to develop, test, produce and market new technologies, has been swathed in corrugated aluminium painted in stripes of pink, orange and light blue.The Anglo-German architect won a Europe-wide competition ...
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USA: Three race for California transport HQ
Thom Mayne, Rem Koolhaas and Benedetta Tagliabue, the widow of Enric Miralles, have been shortlisted in a design-and-build competition for the California Department of Transportation's new regional headquarters in Los Angeles. The three firms were chosen from six semi-finalists by Richard Koshalek, former director of the Los Angeles Museum of ...
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Cabin fever
Bearth & Deplazes is not just a 'mountain' practice. But when it designed a new weekend retreat in Fanas, it was able to draw on its relationship with the landscape to create a cabin that perfectly complements, yet also adds to, its surroundings.
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Kyoto or bust
Architects have a key role to play in helping governments meet their Kyoto Protocol obligations. But to really tackle carbon emissions, they will have to develop more radical climate-responsive architecture.