All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 150
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Living on the edge
The latest project by Engelen Moore – best known for its inner-city architecture – is a country house perched on a mountainside. So how does the practice's trademark steel and glass translate to the bush?
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PRC - UK leads multiple developments
Two major British-led infrastructure projects have got the go-ahead in Chongqing in Sichuan Province.
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Community spirit
Anupama Kundoo's experience of experimentation and communal living has culminated in the completion of a house for her own occupation – the Wall House in the Indian community of Auroville.
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US - Clinton library design unveiled
The design for the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, has been unveiled.
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Cities for a small country
Cities for a small countryAnne Power and Richard RogersFaber & Faber, London, UK£14.99 (paperback)310pp. 63 b&w illustrations'In political terms the leap from where we are to where we want to be is vast,' write Richard Rogers and Anne Power. They are referring to contemporary British planning policy.Cities for a small ...
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Singapore - Cullinan/KNTA wins on campus
Edward Cullinan Architects (UK) and KNTA Architects (Singapore) have been appointed as master architect for the Singapore Management University city campus at Bras Basah, Singapore.
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Germany - Triple whammy for Bolles + Wilson
Three newly completed projects by Münster-based Bolles + Wilson confirm the practice as one of Germany's leading architectural outfits.
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Belgium - Berlaymont busts its budgets
Building work at the disaster-prone Berlaymont building, the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, could overrun by a staggering BF1,425million (US$31 million), according to a review by international accountant and consultant Ernst & Young.
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How the whale became
On the banks of the river IJ in Amsterdam's former docks de Architekten Cie has designed a distinctly fishy looking building, a scaly grey housing block.
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Spain - Barcelona builds on its reputation
The Spanish city of Barcelona has launched a series of building and regeneration projects that build on its reputation for high-class architecture and imaginative urban design.
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Austria - Vienna gets a museum district
Work has just finished on three new museums in the heart of Vienna.
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Australia - Curtain lifts on Canberra's controversy
Ashton Raggatt McDougall's controversial National Museum of Australia opens in Canberra next month.
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Where art imitates life
Like Ostankino, the telecoms tower which suffered a disastrous fire last year, Moscow's architecture is all about display, with a distinct lack of emphasis on either safety or detailing. James McAdam ponders on how architecture reflects politics in post-Soviet Russia.
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Who needs architecture?
Colin Davies assesses the role of architecture and the architect in an era of change, and concludes that the profession's declining influence is primarily due to its estrangement from the construction process.
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Architectural Supermodels
Architectural SupermodelsTom Porter and John NealeArchitectural Press, Oxford, UK£29.99 (paperback)192pp. 180 colour Illustrations, 15 b&w.Man has always had a fascination with miniaturised architectural models as the best means of previewing the impact of structures at full scale. Throughout history these models have served in many different roles and under many ...
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Álvaro Siza: Complete Works
Álvaro Siza: Complete WorksKenneth FramptonPhaidon Press, London, UK£60 (hardback)620pp. 220 colour illustrations, 145 b&w, 300 line drawings.This book may be large and long, but its gravity comes not from scale or spectacle, but from achieving a simple ambition: to disseminate a body of work. To accomplish this, the publishers have ...
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Spain - Calatrava takes on all comers
In an interview in the Spanish newspaper El País, Santiago Calatrava has claimed that a new bridge in Barcelona harbour has been copied from his competition design for the same project.
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City Transformed: Urban Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century
City Transformed: Urban Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st CenturyKenneth PowellLaurence King Publishing£45 (Hardback)256pp. 200 colour illustrations, 130 b&wKen Powell's new book provides a good overview of model development in a number of cities that have seized opportunities to create a future, where there might otherwise be only a ...
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Wizards of Oz
The quality of Australian domestic architecture is no longer a secret. We reveal that away from the international style of Sydney and Melbourne are works of honesty, craft and lyricism.
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The movers and shakers
Five of the greatest movers in the World Architecture top 300 league table are quizzed about the secrets of their success.