All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 135
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Rolls of honour
This month Cole & Sons reluctantly leaves the north London factory in which it has been producing handmade wallpaper for 125 years.
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Local hero
Bushe Associates' revamp of a north London pub appeals to an entirely new audience, but has not forgotten its roots as a local.
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Height of his powers
Renzo Piano has the pick of the world's projects. So why did he choose a controversial speculative London tower, which may never be built?
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Rock hard
The first French architect to win the RIBA Gold Medal since Le Corbusier, Jean Nouvel is a rebel who has never been afraid to speak his mind.
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Survival of the fittest
In the evolutionary struggle of web-based services, only the strong survive. Companies must offer fast, robust and accurate information in order not to end up as one of the many casualties already littering the wayside.
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Fashion victim
The elusive grail of the next big thing again drew the design crowds to Milan's Salon del Mobile Fair. But in trying to sell furniture as disposable fashion the result was a mere recyling of ideas.
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East meets west
Kenzo Tange's National Gymnasia for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics is typical of the architect's creative fusion of eastern and western influences.
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Kitchen sink drama
RIBAJ has teamed up with MFI, one of the UK's leading suppliers of kitchens, bedrooms and home interiors, to find an architect to design the next-generation kitchen.
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Ground control
In the last two years flooring has seen a definite shift towards more sustainable materials, with demand coming from both architects and clients.
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It's coming home
With ambitious young architects returning and a flurry of submissions for this year's RIBA awards, it looks as if the peace process is beginning to have an impact on architecture in Northern Ireland.
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Clean living
The partners of Thinking Space – in designing their first building, a home for themselves – used an open plan to make the most of a tiny site.
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Clean copy
Spratley Kilco's copy shop in Abingdon is a purely architectural space, indicative of how technology has changed the requirements of internal space and location of colour houses.
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Cinema Builders
Cinema BuildersEdwin HeathcoteWiley-Academy£50Like the history of the cinema and the cinema buildings it describes, this book struggles to reconcile the opposing forces of art and commerce. Essentially it is a selective survey of recent cinema architecture, prefaced by a short history of the development of the building type in the ...
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Charge of the light brigade
The Institution of Electrical Engineers has been given a new lease of life by Lee/Fitzgerald Architects' sensitive refurbishment.
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The new black
The lowering basalt facade of Ortner and Ortner's Ludwig Museum of Modern Art brings a whole new presence to Vienna's imperial stables, now the city's Museum Quarter.
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Big on japan
The interiors of some London houses epitomised the 1870s obsession with all things Japanese, inspired by the 1862 International Exhibition, which proved a transition between Gothic Revival and Queen Anne.
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Barca mad
Despite the attempts of other Spanish cities to steal the limelight, Barcelona is still a mecca for furniture design, as revealed by the latest displays at Construmat and at the city's leading showrooms.Stars of the showLast year exports of Spanish furniture to the UK increased by 18 per cent, and ...
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Art in the right place
In the shadow of London's Trellick tower, the London Print Studio by David Mikhail Architects is both working studio and exhibition space for the community.
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Exhibition: The Architecture of Fumihiko Maki
Modernity and the Construction of SceneryV&A Museum (17 May to 22 July)