All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 145
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District savings bank
Financial institutions are normally associated with conservative architectural norms. The buildings are usually heavy and suggest solidity. In Bernkastel in the Moselle district, the local savings bank elected to ignore conventional norms and came up with a decidedly unconventional new headquarters complex.
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Is Neutron Jack back?
Predictions by analysts of massive job cuts in GE have been denied by the company, though GE does anticipate eliminating positions over the next few years.
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The wooden tops
The structural roofing possibilities of engineered timber, particularly in monocoque constructions, are finally being realised by architects, 60 years after they were first pioneered in aeroplanes.
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Traveller's tales
Arts and Crafts architect Robert Weir Schultz's enthusiasm for Byzantinism flourished when he won, in 1887, a travelling award. He leaves us with a legacy of built and photographic examples of the movement from around the world.
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The white stuff
There was a brief moment in the 1930s when UK Modern movement houses were world class. One of these – the Flat Roof House by Colin Lucas – has been both restored to its former glory and added to by Dennis Sharp Architects.
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The Rodin Museum, Seoul
The Rodin Museum, SeoulKevin KennonPrinceton Architectural Press£24.95This book is more than just a showcase for the Kohn Pedersen Fox-built home for Rodin's Gates of Hell and Burghers of Calais. In the opening essay, Kevin Kennon, architect of the languorously curved glass pavilion, makes a persuasive case for the role of ...
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The Making of the Museum of Scotland
As a comprehensive trawl through Benson and Forsyth's Stirling Prize nominee this account does have its merits.
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Lumber up
Increasingly complex roof forms are now possible, thanks to an engineered timber product called LVL: laminated veneered lumber. So just how is this material made?
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Looking for the white knight
As one half of Lifschutz Davidson, the design team for the Legacy bid for the Dome, Ian Davidson knows all about persuasion, publicity and the government – knowledge that should stand him in good stead as the new chairman of the awards group at the RIBA.
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Home work
'Capable of further improvement' was one critic's comment on Grey Wornum's original design for the RIBA headquarters. More than 65 years later, real changes are being proposed. The first of these, a new look Florence Hall, has just opened.
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Cultural resolution
To celebrate the centenary of Australia's federation in 1901, the National Museum of Australia opens this month in Canberra, but not without controversy about both its design and content.
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Computers for schools
A recent survey of architecture schools reveals a shocking lack of funding for IT education. This is leading to a skills shortage that is encouraging some firms to recruit greater numbers of staff from abroad.
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The overseas club
An RIBA Journal survey shows that the institute is still widely respected overseas. But as the old world order is challenged, can the RIBA's international profile survive?
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Reformed character
Buildings which once housed a harsh Christian Brothers regime for juvenile offenders are being softened and subtly incorporated into a new community development on the coast of Galway.
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Architectural Poetics
Mario Botta's career seems to have been one uninterrupted success story.
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Jean Nouvel in Prague: Zlaty Andel
Considering how quickly this has followed the completion of Nouvel's picture and poetry-etched glass building, some sloppy translation is just about forgivable.
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Action stations
For the latest stage of the transformation of Victorian railway warehouses into the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, Austin-Smith: Lord uses unashamedly modern interventions.
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The Postwar University – utopianist campus and college
Urbanism is a dominant topic for theoretical discourse, and the university, as a microcosm of the 'idea' city, rehearses social and educational visions interpreted in physical form.
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Watch this space
Using a translucent glass box, Svante Berg has created for TV channel Kanal 5 a new open relationship with its staff and viewers.
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Sense of style
This year is a big one for Scandinavia, especially Sweden. Not only will it hold the EU presidency, 2001 is also its Year of Architecture. As political and physical links draw Scandinavia ever closer to Western Europe, architecture, always the driver in forging the national identity, is trying to establish ...