All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 139
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It's a wrap
The increased popularity of cladding and curtainwalling is a mixed blessing to the construction industry.
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Making an exhibition of itself
Many hoped that architecture would take centre stage in the Royal Academy's ambitious plans for the former Museum of Mankind which it bought earlier this year. But at a meeting last month to discuss the provision of architecture displays in London, such hopes were quickly dashed.
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More than skin deep
Multiple skin facades are the height of green respectability in mainland Europe, but UK architects and clients have been slower to understand their benefits. Since they can cost twice as much as conventional solutions, life cycle analysis can be the best way to convince sceptical clients.
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Esprit de corps
Real collaboration in the construction industry is rare, despite the Egan report. One initiative aiming to change all this is Teamwork, which unites architects, engineers and QSs via technology, especially 3D models.
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Heart of class
Maguire and Co's arts and sport block for Dormston School in the Black Country provides a new heart for the school, while its form brings together the disparate elements of both the school and the surrounding community.
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Modern British
Stephenson Bell has transformed a 1960s office building into the latest place to see and be seen on central Manchester's burgeoning restaurant and bar scene.
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Between two stools
Architects' cross-over into bridge design is a relatively recent phenomenon, one exception being Reginald Cuthbert Fry, seen here 100 years ago demonstrating the strength of his system with a rather unusual model.
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Architecture: the Critics'Choice
It seems unlikely that any of the contributors to Architecture: the Critics' Choice needed to do much more than dust off their lectures notes.
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Photovoltaics and Architecture
Comprehensive and authoritative, this book is essentially a hard sell for solar panelling.
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Serge Chermayeff: Designer, Architect, Teacher
Serge Chermayeff: Designer, Architect, TeacherAlan PowersRIBA Publications£25'He knew all the grand and theatrical people and was always out a lot during the day. It seemed it was Mr Mendelsohn who did the solid work on the pavilion' – Joan Ridge, secretary in the Mendelsohn and Chermayeff office.'Serge had NO ...
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Urban warriors
Since the 1985 earthquake, social housing has been confined, in the most part to the suburbs. Now, in an attempt to bring it back to the centre, a consortium of architects, developers and planners have re-engineered an old cement works, and the land use around it, into housing, parks and ...
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Shooting at statues
Somebody once said that history is something you make, not something you keep: a thought to bear in mind when considering the recent outburst of iconoclasm that had Afghanistan's ruling Taleban unleashing anti-tank missiles, artillery shells and dynamite upon religious artifacts, including the famous 1500-year-old Buddhist statues at Bamiyan. The ...
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Resumption of service
The Jewish population of Kassel in Germany – newly swelled with emigrants from former communist countries – has a new synagogue and community centre, by Alfred Jacoby.
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US - Swiss roll up for Pritzker Prize
At a ceremony this month at Monticello, the Virginia house Thomas Jefferson (US president and architect) built for himself, Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron will be presented with US$100,000 and the 2001 Pritzker prize – the most glittering architecture award.
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Up and oval
On a tight corner plot, the elliptical form of Torre Siglum provides much-needed office space and an image of prosperity for the southern area of Mexico City.
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Office politics
The European OfficeJuriaan van Meel010 Publishers, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsNLG49.50 (paperback original)182ppLooking at the office buildings so prominent on the skyline of virtually every major city, one can argue that globalisation translates in the cityscape as the replication of an architectural language symbolic of international corporate triumph. Yet, when we look ...
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Mexico
As Mexico recovers from the political, social and economic chaos of the mid-1990's, architects are responding to the opportunities of the 21st century with renewed vigour.
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Mind your mannerisms
Mario Botta: Architectural PoeticsIrena SakellaridouThames & Hudson, London, UK£14.95 (paperback original)240pp. 220 colour illustrationsThis handsome book focuses mainly on Mario Botta's work of the past 10 years. As the title suggests, the chapters are organised around formal and conceptual themes, in the Heideggerian key of the late critic Christian Norberg-Schulz. ...
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Into the light
In one of his finest-ever religious building, Tadao Ando has melded Buddhist tradition with his own humanist beliefs and the power of nature to create a new temple in Saijyo, Japan.
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UK - Scotland's silver jewel
Two silver alienesque pods and a 100m-tall revolving tower have been growing for the last year on the banks of the river Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland.