All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 149
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Hedging your bets
Architecture and landscape have always been entwined, as evident in this photograph of the 19th-century yew hedges at Rous Lench in Worcestershire, taken for Country Life.
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Bathing beauties
As the new water regulations bringing the UK into line with the rest of Europe take effect, bathroom design is being influenced by a European aesthetic.
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Investing in the bank
Winning planning permission to build a contemporary house on the bank of the Thames may seem impossible. It can be done: you need deep pockets, plenty of time, tenacity and, most important of all, you have to pick the right architect.
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Fashion + Architecture
Two recent publications on shopping and architecture highlight the intriguing debate between the architectural theorists and practitioners.
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Life after Maggie
In the months leading up to her death, Charles Jencks' wife, Maggie, lived for her idea of a new building type, the cancer caring centre. Now Jencks has brought in the world's best architects to design 'Maggie's Centres' around Britain, and the latest phase of the first centre by Richard ...
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Access all areas
Architects use computers for general administration, not just designing. But office and word processing software is modelled on the old-fashioned filing cabinet, rather than how architects actually work – so why don't you develop your own system?
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Singapore - Putting on a show
Opening of new rapid transit station by Foster and Partners
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Property values
When it comes to housing design, the best opportunities for innovative architecture lie in the subsidised public sector rather than the overblown private market.
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Modern times
Modernism, Neo-Modernism, 'super'-Modernism; the Netherlands has seen them all. Now the country is witnessing an outbreak of Post-Modernism as Sjoerd Soeters' latest project – a masterplan for the city of Nijmegen – shows.
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School master
In the now famous Kop van Zuid docklands redevelopment area of Rotterdam, Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects has created a college, which stands out both against its showy neighbours, and against the traditions of educational buildings.
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A matter of light and shade
The latest addition to Hamburg's peaceful suburbs is gmp's gem-like house and garden. The simple plan accommodates a family of four, via a flexible layout which allows for the re-arrangement of living spaces as required.
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The Russia house
William Alsop Architects has challenged the traditional red-brick edifice as the country house of choice for wealthy Muscovites.
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Wish you were here?
They just don't stop – they've led the world in innovation for years, and now say they've never had it so good. From large state infrastructure projects to individual houses, just how, and why, do Dutch architects do it?
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A handle on history
Architectural hardware is often taken for granted, until, that is, it is no longer available. Clive Fewins talks to Charles Brooking, who has devoted his life to rescuing historically important ironmongery.
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Switzerland/US - Libeskind goes
Daniel Libeskind has beaten Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Fuksus, ARB Architekten and Lamunière/Devanthéry in a competition to design a new leisure and shopping centre in the Swiss city of Bern.
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France - Hoovering up the work
Wilkinson Eyre Architects has completed a showroom in Paris for James Dyson, the UK inventor who revolutionised the vacuum cleaner and has recently been in the press with his latest invention, the Contrarotator washing machine.
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Netherlands - Tagliabue one step nearer to finishing Miralles' work
Utrecht Town Hall, the latest posthumous work by Enric Miralles, is nearing completion.
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Do yourself a favour
If you want to increase your chance of success in an awards scheme, you need to prepare properly.
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Facing the future
After the excitement of reunification, German architecture is at a crossroads, as pragmatism replaces idealism.