All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 151
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Value judgement
Comparing construction prices between countries is fraught with difficulty, due to the host of local variations. The Hanscomb Index helps to establish a basis for comparison. Editors of this series are Gary Mardon, London, and Tom Wiggins, Atlanta.
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Introduction
The wa300 survey – the world's most comprehensive overview of architectural practices across the globe – reveals a healthy picture. Practices are growing and fee income has increased over the past year. We look at what the results reveal about the present and the future.
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Europe energised
Economic confidence has enthused Europe's architects to produce a range of dynamic designs to match the mood.
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Domes of discovery
Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners is known for its high-tech structures, such as London's Waterloo International Terminal. Now it has turned its hand to the biggest greenhouse in the world – a series of 'biomes' inspired by Buckminster Fuller.
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United States Art movement
Museums will be 2001's winners, from a Seattle 'art garage' to a Las Vegas double act, while New York makes shopping an art.
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A different angle
Ron Arad – one of the world's most radical design activists – is the mastermind behind some of the most radical furniture designs available today. We find out where the inspiration lies.
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Asia/Australia Speeding ahead
With opportunities in China, Australia's Olympic springboard and Japan's economic recovery, 2001 promises to be another action-packed year.
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African voice
Architectural design as a route to reconciliation of conflicts is scoring as many failures as successes.
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Collaborate to accumulate
Who do architects want on board to help them realise a project? The wa300 Quality of Service Vote finds out who are the architects' favourites and how they see the global construction industry.
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wa300 league table
The top 300 architecture practices ranked by the number of fee-earning architects they employ.
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WA 300 Alphabetical Index & Geographical index
wa 300 Geographical indexARGENTINA195= Mario Roberto Alvarez & AssociatesSolis 310 Ist D Buenos Aires 1078Tel: +54 11 3746330Fax: +54 11 3753796Email: hbernabo@mraya.comContact: Bernabo H, partnerAUSTRALIA132= Allen Jack & Cottier59 Buckingham Street, Surrey Hills, NSW 2010Tel: +61 93118222Fax: +61 93118200Web: www.ajcarch.com.auContact: ...
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The view from the top
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has a fight on its hands. It has to throw off the stuffy image of its previous incarnation, the RFAC; find a role among all the other architecture organisations; and do battle with PFI. Will a move this month to offices in ...
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Through the Labyrinth
This is a book that, if found in a bookshop, would immediately demand my attention.
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A very industrious year
If you thought you'd seen the end of industrial chic with last year's unveiling of the Tate Modern, think again. This year will see another rash of industrial buildings reopening in new guises, from Battersea to Gateshead.
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Help for training
You may be able to get help from the government towards the costs of your CPD training.
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Taken at face value
A tight budget inspired rather than constrained Adjaye & Associates' vision in creating an unusual family home in east London
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Experimental Houses
The design of most houses in this country is so banal that we must welcome any ideas, however wild.
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Playing to the crowd
Among the many architectural disasters of world fairs were occasional gems, such as E A Schiewe and Donald Nelson's theatre for the 1930s Chicago fair, which did its bit for US Modernism.