All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 134
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Canada: Gehry drinks to his homecoming
Ontario-born Frank Gehry is to design his first building in Canada, a winery in the Niagara peninsula region in the south-east of the country.
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Japan: Shelter calls in design debt
An international competition, to be judged by Shigeru Ban, has been launched to design a new temporary shelter to house people made homeless by natural disasters.
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US: Hotel double booking causes a stir in New York
It may look like a giant cheese-grater, but Astor Place is set to be the coolest place to hang out in Manhattan when it opens in 2003.
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France: Hadid's lightning bolt
A park-and-ride station is not the kind of project with which one would naturally associate Zaha Hadid Architects but that is exactly what it has just designed in the French city of Strasbourg.
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Barcelona bonanza
City growth is not something normally tangible to the naked eye. But, as yet another huge regeneration initiative takes shape, Barcelona seems the exception, expanding at almost breakneck speed.
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Bar code
We provide an insider's guide to the best of the new architect-designed bars in Hong Kong's trendy SoHo district of the Mid-Levels. Visitors to the World Architecture Awards would do well to follow our advice.
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Hong Kong: Arup is back to cable-stay
With the wobble finally under control on Norman Foster's Millennium Bridge in London, Arup has moved on to bigger things; the design contract for a world record-breaking cable-stay bridge in Hong Kong.
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USA: Piano creates a work of art in Chicago
Renzo Piano, the first architect to win the art world's Wexner Prize, has designed a new museum building for the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Class architect
Daniel Libeskind: The Space of EncounterDaniel LibeskindThames & Hudson, London, UK£22.95224pp. 200 illustrations.Long ago, when I was an undergraduate, I had to write an essay on the question 'Is virtuosity art?' I cannot remember what I wrote, and I still do not know the answer to the question, but it ...
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Higher ambitions
Hints of a greener agenda in Hong Kong are in danger of becoming submerged in the renewed push for high-rise development as the city goes all out to claim the title of gateway to Asia against a host of contenders.
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Spain: French tower above Barcelona
Two of France's leading architects, Jean Nouvel and Dominique Perrault, have been commissioned to design landmark towers in Barcelona as a central feature of the city's latest regeneration initiative.
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And the winner is …
Who'd have thought it; the US$30,000 Arup World Architecture Award has gone to a virtually unknown young Finnish practice. It has happened – not by design, as all entries were anonymous, but because the World Architecture Awards commend outstanding buildings, not just famous architects.
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World Architecture Awards 2001
The word is out. The jury's choice for the US$30,000 Arup World Architecture Award is the Finnish Embassy in Berlin by the young team of Viiva Arkkitehtuuri. Regional and category winners are published in full.
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An uphill struggle
With all the benefits of the vacuum drainage system – it does not rely on gravity, takes up less space, and uses less water – why has it taken so long to take off?
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Staging a return
Fettered by space constraints if not by funding rules, Tim Foster Architects has maximised the potential of Peterborough's former Odeon, now fittingly renamed Broadway.
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Pawson for thought
Renowned minimalist John Pawson has designed a range of five home accessories, under the title When Objects Work.
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Wagamama marches on
For its latest branch, in Nottingham, Wagamama brought in Winterstill Architects to continue the noodle chain's trademark minimalism.
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Making light work
Architect-inventor Bill Price is making reality of a concept that, until now, has merely captured the imagination of architects: translucent concrete. But before it can be used in reality, doubts over its cost and sustainability will need to be cleared up.
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Lofty ideals
An unpromising conversion of a Hackney school to loft-style apartments did not deter Azman Owens Architects. Commissioned to remodel the top floor space, it introduced a new staircase and glass floor panels to create a highly individual, if idiosyncratic, vision.