All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 147
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Responding To Chaos: Tradition, Technology, Society and Order in Japanese Design
Responding To Chaos: Tradition, Technology, Society and Order in Japanese DesignDavid BuckSpon Press, London, UK£39.99 US$60204pp. 83 colour illustrations, 66 b&w, softbackIn Responding to Chaos, David Buck reports on the state of Japanese design as the nation stumbles into the new century. In post-war, post-boom Japan, neither the old or ...
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Taiwan Wired for change
The city of Taipei has launched a major international competition in which selected celebrity architects will compete with on-line applications from architects around the world to redevelop the city centre.
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Business class
Christoph Mäckler's extension to the European Business School – housed in Schloss Reichartshausen, on the Rhine in Germany – uses the simplest of materials and finishes to convey a focused, monastic atmosphere.
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Busting the boom
As the Irish capital continues to boom, the cry from architects and construction experts is not what you might expect. Frank McDonald believes that what Dublin really wants is a chance to catch its breath.
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US - Big names for Carnegie
The Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburg and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in Boston have drawn up high-profile international shortlists in their architecture competitions for the design of their new premises. Both plan to announce a winner later this spring.
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US - Isozaki will nearly double Bass
When the Bass Museum of Modern Art in Miami, Florida, reopens on 2 May, it will have been dramatically transformed.
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No way back for Bauhaus
The problem at the Bauhaus 'is not urbanisation but disurbanisation, abandoned property, depopulation, and a lignite legacy of industrial junk'.
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Australia - Radical rescue plan for Olympic Park
Sydney's Olympic park at Homebush Bay is becoming a 'white elephant', with the New South Wales government conceding that it is likely to be a drain on the taxpayer for at least a decade to come.
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Australia - Sydney's MCA faces radical facelift
In Sydney, the beleaguered Museum of Contemporary Art is about to meet a bright new future.
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Australia - Where life really is a beach
How about this for a blank canvas: a 3.5km-long stretch of never-built-on beach and bushland, with planning permission for an entire township.
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Spain - Art Castle
The Museum of Fine Arts in Castellón, Spain, the latest work by Madrid architects Emilio Tuñón and Luis Moreno Mansilla, was inaugurated on January 25.
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Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and other writings
Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and other writingsKarel TeigeGetty Publications, Los Angeles, USUS$73384pp. 328 b&w illustrations. softback.Katrel Teige (1900-1951) – the enfant terrible of the Czech Modernist avant-garde of the 1920 and 1930s – was until recently under-represented in English language publications. Although spoken of with admiration by those who ...
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Singapore: Architecture of a Global City
Singapore: Architecture of a Global CityRobert PowellArchipelago Press, SingaporeUS$75256pp. 375 colour illustrations, 75 b&w. hardback'Blink and you'll miss it' would have been a fair assessment of architecture in Singapore just 10 years ago. How times have changed. In the early 1990s there were only a few decent architects whose work ...
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Malaysia - Anytime, anyplace, anywhere
The tecnopod is coming to a location near you.
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Where angels dare to tread
Jean Nouvel's Zlatý Andel, or 'Golden Angel', is a physical and symbolic sign of hope, and points towards a better future both for that particular former-industrial area of Prague, and for Eastern European architecture as a whole.
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Austria - Perrault's Alpine peak
Going to the supermarket is not often an architecturally uplifting experience. But in the Austrian town of Wattens it has become just that.
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Germany - Berlin schloss adjusters
Prominent German architects have been invited to submit proposals for a controversial site in the heart of the country's new capital.
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New products
1. Trilogy downlighters, Philips Lighting Philips Lighting's latest development in the luminaires field centres on the Trilogy, a family of recessed downlighters for general and decorative lighting in both offices and retail outlets.The Trilogy 170 series downlights (so-called because they are sized at 170 mm) are at their best ...
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The Lowry
Designated the National Landmark Millennium Project for the Arts, the £105 million Lowry plays host to stylish theatres for the performing arts, gallery spaces, restaurants/bars and an Artworks interactive studio. We talk to Equation Lighting's Mark Hansman and Alexis Thermis about an illumination scheme predicated on light 'layering'.