All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 141
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UK - Duel on London's South Bank of Thames
Two firms are battling it out to win the job of developing a site opposite London's Houses of Parliament and next to the millennium wheel.
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¡Arriva!
'The 21st century is the century of Mexico – no doubt,' says Vicente Fox, the country's first democratically elected leader. Lisa Diane Kealty Tejeda, in Mexico City, and Naomi Stungo report on a country in the throes of change and asks what this means for architecture.
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Armour plate
The completion of Glasgow's National Science Centre is proof of an enduring architectural love affair with metal cladding.
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US - Filling a hole in the Big Apple
Major development sites don't often come up in Manhattan – but one such site has been created by the relocation of New York's utilities companies.
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Clad all over
Magna – a science centre housed in a relic of Britain's steel industry – is in turn an exhibition of cladding materials and methods.
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US/Europe - AIA European awards
The results of the AIA's Continental Europe Chapter awards have just been released. All, coincidentally, go to architects working in their own country.
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About the man
Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in ArchitectureCharles JencksThe Monicelli Press, New YorkUS$50320pp. 60 colour and 140 b&w illustrationsLe Corbusier is the great figure of 20th-century architecture, nonpareil. Walter Gropius described him as the 'Leonardo of our times'. Yet he remains something of an enigma. Architect, painter, bon viveur and ...
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Spain - Solà-Morales dies at 58
Barcelona architect Ignasi de Solà-Morales died of a heart attack on March 12 at the age of 58.
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Slim, not shady
The site – on a scruffy, rat-infested East End back street – did not look promising, but architect Sarah Featherstone was convinced she could make herself a home.
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Swiss role
Max Bill's mixture of architecture and graphic design is exemplified in his design for the Swiss pavilion for the sixth Milan Triennale in 1936.
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Wide open spaces
After 15 years in the West End, contemporary art dealer Victoria Miro has upped sticks and moved east to what was once a car showroom but is now the biggest commercial gallery in London.
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Lap of luxury
Walters & Cohen's disciplined design for a deluxe spa in London's Docklands brings out the elemental qualities of the natural materials.
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Let it glow
Finally outshining their dreary image, fluorescent strip lights are making a comeback. This time, however, they are being hidden inside boxes and behind screens, illuminating interiors in a far more subtle – and glamorous – way.
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The tooth fairy
As a former dentist, architect Richard Mitzman believes his revolutionary design for a busy Harley Street practice will enable make dentists' lives both much easier and more profitable.
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The director's cut
The remodelling of South Kensington's Goethe Institute, the Germany cultural centre, enhances the viewing pleasure of cinema-goers, while opening the building up to a rear terrace, away from the busy road.
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Blonde on blonde
The Swedes take furniture very seriously, yet the Swedish furniture fair in February was small, at least when compared with rival furniture fairs in Milan and Cologne. But don't let this put you off: Stockholm has much to offer the design cognoscenti.
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Fit for anything
When time is of the essence, who can you turn to for a flawless interior fit-out? Answer– shopfitters, whose trade is increasingly moving away from its origins in retail.
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Italian accent
Although the furniture companies that flock to Milan each year like to keep new launches under wraps until the show opens later this month, RIBA Interiors has had a sneak preview of some of the best of what's on offer this year.
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Under the skin
Christoph Langhof's headquarters for the Berlin Water Company's draws inspiration from the city's rich history, while aiming to fit in and add to its traditional architectural character.
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Taking shape
In the second in our series following the construction of the Weald and Downland conservation centre, we look at the process behind the gridshell's design, and how computer modelling has progressed since the first experiments at Mannheim.