All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 15
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I’m looking through you
Oxford Street, eat your heart out. Squire and Partners’ acrylic waterfall of light for fashion retailer Reiss is glamming up a London side street.
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Hello, goodbye
Danish architect Kim Herforth Nielsen and I sit cosily over a coffee under the Victorian brick chimney of the Pump House Inn.
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Octopus’s garden(s)
The trees have grown wild and the pavilions have been appropriated by graffiti artists.
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Fixing a hole
Developer Grosvenor is turning a huge chunk of Liverpool’s inner-city wasteland into one of Europe’s biggest retail centres. Just don’t mention the word ‘culture’.
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Honey don’t
Architects are welcome to dabble in in art, but keep it to yourself, says Grant Gibson. Richard Meier, this means you.
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Here comes the sun
What better to inspire young designers and architects than the wondrous spectacle of Frederick Gibberd’s cathedral of Christ the King?
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Your coffee table needs...
Villages of VisionGillian Darley, Five Leaves Publications, £14.99Darley’s reissued 1975 classic is still an excellent dissection of the ideas and realities of visionary design and social thinking. The title suggests the picturesque but Darley covers the whole range including modernist experiments such as the Crittall village of Silver End. If ...
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Brief encounter
Liverpool’s win as Capital of Culture is in part thanks to the activities of the A Foundation which seeks to boost the city’s regeneration through contemporary visual arts. Curator Fiona Boundy talks to Jan-Carlos Kucharek
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Back in the US, back in the US…
I am in Boston at the invitation of RIBA Council member Debbie Bentley and the New England chapter of RIBA-USA to speak about climate change and sustainability at the annual Build Boston convention.
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All things must pass
Sir Basil Spence was a talented draughtsman and knew how to get the work, says Richard Murphy. But the architecture, hmmm
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Structural script
The theatre complex consist of four main structures: the concrete 750-seat auditorium, the steel and concrete 350-seat auditorium, the steel-framed shoulder block and the roof.
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Archive TitlesRising Stars
Macbeth, Monday, Giselle, Tuesday, Annie Get Your Gun, Friday. How can a theatre be this versatile? With a pneumatic floor that can reconfigure an entire stage in half an hour, that’s how. It’s one example of the way theatre spaces are being made far more adaptable.
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Radial seating
Democracy cannot extend beyond the sound of one man’s voice, according to Plato, and mathematically, an amphitheatre offers the best odds for maximum audience. But Plato didn’t have to consider the problem of retractable seating.
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Theatre projects are not the sole preserve of specialists. Rab Bennetts and Sandy Wright , both relative newcomers to the genre, are working for the RSC and Hull Truck Theatre respectively. On the stage at Bennetts’ curtain raiser, Hampstead Theatre, completed four years ago, they talk to RIBAJ about their ...
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Archive TitlesRSC pioneers tiered thrust
Planned to open in 2010, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1046-seater theatre at Stratford-Upon-Avon will be the world’s first tiered thrust auditorium (usually this format has a single seating rake).
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Performance
When architecture steps onto the stage, it invites the attention of the critics. Designing performance spaces is one thing – this issue is devoted to the subject but what about the public performance of architecture itself?
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Pool in the park
A clear and logical design, combined with high standards of detailing and workmanship, mean Formby Pool requires no other adornment. Peter Ross describes the project
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Stop it at once
Would it be too much to hope that the RIBA Journal decides not to fill its letter pages with yet more long formulaic letters from professional Middle East activists?