All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 126
-
Archive Titles
USA: New bridge over muddy waters
The Mississippi snakes under umpteen bridges on its way from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico. And soon there will be one more, the I-70 crossing between St Louis, Missouri, and East St Louis, Illinois.The monumental cable-stayed bridge, designed by Rosales Gottemoeller and Associates, was jointly commissioned by the Illinois ...
-
Archive Titles
Dream boat
Interior commissions come in all shapes and sizes, but not many of them float. Here's how Sydney architect Iain Halliday created a sleek living space for a 53-foot yacht.
-
Archive Titles
Boarding house rules
It certainly does at St Hilda's School in Perth, where Jones Coulter Young has abandoned the traditional dormitory layout to create an apartment block for teenagers.
-
Archive Titles
Let the games begin
Every sporting legend has to start somewhere. And in Bétrix & Consolascio's school sports hall, the young people of Zug have a colourful and inspirational building to launch world-beating careers from.
-
Archive Titles
Products - Bathrooms
'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.
-
Archive Titles
Germany: Wilford's back in Braun
Michael Wilford & Partners has just completed this DM26m (US$12m) European headquarters for pharmaceuticals giant Braun.The triangular-shaped building is the latest in a series of Wilford-designed structures for Braun's site on the outskirts of the city of Melsungen, near Frankfurt. The company also masterplanned the site in 1997. Like the ...
-
Archive Titles
France: To bring light into the units, parts of the upper floors are cut away.
Residents have started moving into Herzog & de Meuron's first Paris project, an innovative apartment building in the 14th arrondissement.
-
Archive Titles
Germany: Austrian embassy smashes protocol
Hans Hollein's new Austrian embassy may be in the heart of Berlin's diplomatic quarter but it shuns the gravitas traditionally associated with diplomatic life. With its curvaceous walls and barrel roof covered in copper scales, it is more playroom than ceremonial palace. It is clad in a seemingly whimsical mix ...
-
Archive Titles
Australia: Ship of the desert
Transplanting shipbuilding techniques to one of the driest places on earth does not sound particularly sensible. But the heavy-duty welding methods used to construct ships' hulls were ideal for the fabrication of the new visitor centre in the Karijini National Park in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia.Project architect ...
-
Archive Titles
UK: Arup plans non-wobbly London bridge
On the south side of the River Thames sits Battersea Power Station, London's most famous derelict building. It has been the focus of much architectural debate ever since another dilapidated power station just along the river was converted into the Tate Modern. The latest proposal is not for the power ...
-
Archive Titles
Canada: Wood works for Toronto architect
Canadian architect Salter Farrow Pilon is breaking new ground by developing two health centres that use wood as a primary structural element. In the 63,000m2 Thunder Bay Regional Hospital, the wood structure evokes the railway bridges of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The design of the 42,000m2 Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga ...
-
Archive Titles
UK: Conran anchors in Edinburgh port
When is a ferry terminal not a ferry terminal? When it's a retail and leisure complex designed by Conran & Partners and Keppie Architects. Ocean Terminal is the centrepiece of a scheme to regenerate Leith Port in Edinburgh. It sits on the south-eastern side of the city's western harbour in ...
-
Archive Titles
France: Big names to design Alsatian social housing
The city fathers of the Alsatian town of Mulhouse have believed in the social benefits of good architecture since the mid-19th century. Now the town's stock of affordable housing is to be expanded in the most radical fashion.The Mulhouse Society of Worker's Towns has assembled an architectural dream-team to create ...
-
Archive Titles
Just add water
Time was a washbasin was a bowl that held water. These days, it's a designer accessory. Will Jones checks out some of the most stylish and surreal sinks around.Mixed messageWhether porcelain, glass, metal or wood, sanitaryware tends to be made from a single material. But Sottini has abandoned this principle ...
-
Archive Titles
Australia: Architect unveils home for Aborigines
A prototype house, created specifically with the needs of Australian Aborigines in mind, is to tour outback communities in New South Wales at the end of the year.Designed by Sydney architect Peter Myers, the 'Knockabout Walkabout' house is a 13.5m by 3m house designed to be portable (it can be ...
-
Archive Titles
The Netherlands: People in glass house – finally
Laminata, the experimental Dutch glass house that has been under construction for the past four-and-a-half years, has just been completed.The house is in Leerdam, the hometown of the Dutch glass industry, and was commissioned by local housing foundation GWL Koopwoningen. Young Amsterdam-based architect Kruunenberg en Van der Erve won the ...
-
Archive Titles
China: Chek Lap Kok to become '24-hour city'
Hong Kong is planning a massive expansion of Chek Lap Kok Airport in a bid to create the ultimate international airport with its own mini-city attached.
-
Archive Titles
Germany: Berlin to host 2002 wa awards
Up to 10,000 architects from all over the world will descend on Berlin from 22 to 26 July 2002. The reason? Five days of lectures, workshops, seminars and parties organised by the UIA for the 21st World Congress of Architecture. The highlight of the event will be the awards ceremony ...
-
Archive Titles
Tackling the terminology
To the uninitiated, the terminology associated with lighting controls can be bewildering enough to deter designers from getting beyond a simple on/off switch. We cast a little light on the subject.
-
Archive Titles
New Look store lighting
New Look stores are using a combination of fixtures from Whitecroft Lighting to combine high lighting levels with energy efficient performance. Vivant luminaires provide downlighting and uplighting from 55W compact fluorescent lamps, while Torque spots are used to 'punch'through the ambient lighting to highlight displays.Torque spots around the perimeter use ...