All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 153
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Save and prosper
After the recent floods in the UK, it is hard to believe that water is a potentially scarce resource, scarcer even than energy supplies. But to avoid droughts in the future, the construction industry must start to take water conservation as seriously as it now takes the issue of global ...
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Problem Making a presentation
Each month an expert will provide a detailed response to your practice problems. 'How can I overcome my problems speaking in public?'
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Milking it
O'Donnell and Tuomey's Milkbar in an up-and-coming quarter of Dublin combines a civic gesture and efficient service, despite its small scale and tight budget.
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Peace and light
Deborah Saunt and David Hills' revamp of a multi-faith chapel in the North London Hospice has brought light into a previously closed space, and created a suitably calm and meditative atmosphere.
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Small ones are more juicy
Highgate New Town – architecturally sculptural, but socially disastrous. Will a new community-based juice bar by Sanya Polescuk Architects be enough to stop the rot?
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Helping hands
There is no escaping the computerisation of architectural practice, so why is it that architects have been slow to ask for consultancy help, beyond basic training and hardware problems? The right advice could greatly streamline your business.
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Games lessons
Need some ideas for Christmas presents? How about a toy that claims to be both fun and teach kids about architecture? Miriam Cadji asked children of architects to give their opinions on an assortment of construction toys, while, below, RIBA drawings curator Neil Bingham provides an overview of building toys ...
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Free at last
Truly flexible interiors will only be possible when kitchens and bathrooms can be moved around too.
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The fourth man
It might seem an impossible task, but if anyone can re-brand the RIBA it is Michael Wolff, founding partner of fashionable marketing consultancy The Fourth Room.
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Foreign exchange
Does the European market mean cooperation or competition for architects? That was the question put to architects who assembled in Venice for the first European Architects Forum.
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Grave concerns
Carlo Scarpa's Brion Tomb near Treviso in Italy, designed in the 1960s and '70s, is one of the most unusual – and disqueting – funerary monuments of the 20th century.
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Cities for a small country
Cities for a small countryRichard Rogers & Anne PowerFaber & Faber£14.99The Prime minister, all ministers and all others working in central and local government should be locked into a room with this book and not let out until they have read it and demonstrated that they have understood its message. ...
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The attraction of opposites
A white cube gallery might not seem to sit in a small West-Country seaside town, but 15 years after the initial idea, the new Study Gallery is about transform the cultural life of Poole.
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Smart Alex
Eleven years since its inception, and 1,600 years since its more famous precedecessor burned down, a new library has risen in Alexandria.
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40 architects under 40
40 architects under 40Jessica Cargill ThompsonTaschen£19.99t's a little odd to see a book called 40 Architects under 40 – and to find that more than a quarter have principals whose average age is above the cut-off point. But a genre is a genre, and mere facts should never be allowed ...
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Pretty in Print
Located on the former site of Europe's biggest newspaper plant in the heart of Manchester, The Printworks is one of the UK's most technically advanced and imaginative urban entertainment centres. A stylish and heady mixture of bars and restaurants combines with a state-of-the-art health ...
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Window of opportunity
Until now, window designs predicated on the basis of increasing daylight penetration in buildings have largely failed. Larger windows have led to unacceptably high levels of glare, while only marginally improving daylighting a few metres in from the glass. Now, though, Redbus Serraglaze has devised an 'intelligent' system that not ...
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Optical Illusion
Despite its strikingly obvious benefits and versatility, fibre optic lighting currently accounts for only £5 million of total annual turnover in the UK lighting equipment market. Although they will never truly compete with fluorescent lighting schemes in standard commercial environments, these highly controllable lighting systems can help in producing great ...
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GE Lighting's Star in the making
Largely thanks to rafts of new legislation, environmental issues are beginning to dominate the thoughts of today's lighting design teams
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Electrical giants team up in installation portal deal
Five key players in the electrical sector are uniting their skills to launch the first-ever European electrical installation portal targeted at construction industry professionals.