All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 13
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Archive TitlesVariety is all
AHMM’s multicoloured Westminster Academy is a fun and fluid response to changing pedagogical fashions – just the thing for one of London’s most diverse communities.
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Archive TitlesExcellence adventure
The first ‘excellent’ rating under Breeam-for-Schools has been claimed by the John Roan School in Greenwich (pictured), designed by architecture plb.
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Archive TitlesLetter from... Mossbourne Community Academy
Kids respect Rogers’ Mossbourne, says teacher Simon Cooper; even the loos are unscathed. It’s just a shame sprouting pupils make some of the spaces seem a little small now…
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Academy of academies
The theory behind the current total rebuild of Britain’s schools – the largest such programme since the roll-out of board schools in late Victorian times – is summed up in one, oft-cited, phrase: educational transformation.
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Archive TitlesAm I intruding?
Dwarfish figurines in architectural landscapes are the order of the day in Juan Muñoz’ first major UK retrospective –just opened at the Tate Modern. Kat Hayes gives her impressions
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Who does he think he is?
When I looked at the end of Grant Gibson’s piece in last month’s issue to find out why this man had been granted a whole page twice in consecutive months, I discovered he described himself as a journalist and a party-goer. I’m sure Richard Meier is quaking in his boots. ...
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Station to station
The Dutch appreciated the value of large archives when few did, and this amazing book is the result, says Margaret Richardson
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When in Rome
We still all badly miss our fellow architecture critic Giles Worsley, who died of cancer in 2006, aged only 44. But now a generous travel fellowship has been set up in his name. Giles felt that architectural history needed to be better taught – and that means Italy.
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Riparian rites
Thank goodness London is at last learning to appreciate its waterways once more
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Archive TitlesTrack record
Racing cars and yachts are the main users of FRP, fibre-reinforced polymers. But it could be coming soon to a train line near you. Parsons Brinckerhoff has just completed the first-ever self-supporting FRP bridge over the mainline railway at St Austell, Cornwall (pictured).
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Archive TitlesThe president prepares a tongue-lashing
In a draft for his 1873 presidential address to the RIBA, as he completed his Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras, Sir George Gilbert Scott rails against competitions and his fellow architects.
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St Pancras
If ever there was an argument against the expedient razing of fine old buildings, London’s St Pancras Station is it.
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Archive TitlesWho was Rowland Mason Ordish?
A very talented Victorian engineer, that’s who, and he deserves a lot more credit than he generally gets for the design of the great St Pancras train shed, working with the Midland Railway’s engineer, William Henry Barlow.
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Love me do
Disappointing, to say the least, that in the December issue of the RIBA Journal, your focus on Liverpool has managed to completely ignore the work being carried out to regenerate the commercial business district of the city at St Paul’s Square and Pall Mall.
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Archive TitlesMines a large one
The original St Pancras Station was an inspired collaboration between architect and engineer. A similar pairing has delivered its 21st century incarnation.
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Archive TitlesJust the ticket
Chapman Taylor had to tread very carefully in its retail fit-out of the station undercroft, and its attention has paid off. Photographs: Paul Childs
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Archive TitlesStairway to heaven
Harry Handelsman, founder of the Manhattan Loft Corporation, is the man charged with developing the Gothic masterpiece of the Midland Grand into a 245-bedroom luxury hotel. Hell may be the planning regulations, but the developer is bent on glory.
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Archive TitlesStars in their eyes
Engineering the St Pancras refurbishment took the same kind of leap of the imagination as Barlow brought to the original train shed.
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The engineer’s tale
The beautiful spaces of the Barlow Shed arose out of many constraints, not least the length of a beer barrel. In this extract from his history of St Pancras Station, Simon Bradley explains how that glorious roof came to be.
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An emission mission?
In its rush to be seen in the vanguard of the great and good, the RIBA emissions mission seems to be getting involved with over a dozen different organisations (funders, quangos, technocrats, academics etc).