All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 143
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UK: Fine specimen
Here's a brief for you – a new building to house over a million specimens pickled in formaldehyde.
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Moving experience
Foster and Partners' Singapore's Expo station is a dramatic addition to the island's architecture and to Foster's significant portfolio of transport schemes – from Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport to Canary Wharf station in London.
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Greenhouse effect
Lacaton and Vassal's 'greenhouse villa' continues the French tradition of the country cabin yet presents new ideas on habitation.
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Vive la différence
Architecture in France has changed along with the political climate.
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Desert island
Jacques Moussafir and Bernard Dufournet's new arts department for the university of Paris 8 in St Denis – converted from a drab 1980s library – injects an oasis of colour and light into the cultural hinterland of suburban Paris.
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Orange cream
In the Medieval Normandy town of Pont Audemer, Jakob + MacFarlane has transformed an unloved 1960s theatre into the 'Boite d'Orange', a light-filled new civic space to rekindle civic pride.
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GERMANY: Holding court in Munich
Herzog & de Meuron has just completed the first phase of a major city-centre development in Munich.
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The raw and the cooked
Patrick Bouchain's rejuvenation of Nantes' LU biscuit factories into an arts centre embodies his ideals of appropration rather than transformation, of minimal intervention, and of melding the past and present.
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Taking control
There is now no excuse for not getting the lighting right. Control systems come in all shapes and sizes to fit every project, from a single dwellings to an office complex.
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GERMANY: Cologne project criticisms
A row has erupted over Peter Zumthor's competition-winning design for Cologne's diocesan church museum.
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The city seduced
This book, with its slightly misleading title, is a welcome addition to the rapidly filling shelf of books about the city in the 21st century.
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PRC: China tea service
Taking tea in the park, not a widely recognised student pastime, may soon catch on at the University of Hong Kong.
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PRC: Wan Chai market in peril
Plans to demolish one of the only examples of Bauhaus-style design in Hong Kong have sparked a row between the citiy's planners and conservationists.
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SLOVENIA: Cemetery wins Piranesi prize
A cemetery in Slovenia has won the prestigious Piranesi prize.
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US: Oldest public museum calls in Dutch masters
The oldest public art museum in the US has selected radical Dutch practice UN Studio to carry out a US$50 million programme of renovation and expansion
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Bright young things
As part of the regeneration of the run-down 19th arrondissement of Paris, a new nursery school by young practice Brenac and Gonzalez has created a place of light, security and fun for the area's children.
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Bright ideas
IBM's new e-business suite in London turns conventional office design on its head. And a radical lighting scheme makes it an illuminating experience.
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Breaking new ground
For the stations on Tokyo's new subway line, the city authorities abandoned their previous policy of standardised design, and commissioned different designers for each. The jewel of the line is the Iidabashi station, by Makoto Sei Watanabe/Architects' Office.
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MARS:To boldly go...
'Space', always a favourite word among architects, has taken on a new meaning for one UK practice: London-based Foreign Office Architects has been asked to design a house on Mars