All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 158
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Sliding doors
Walters & Cohen's revamp of a basement flat in a terraced north London house creates one long space that brings the garden into the interior.
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Craic den
If you're looking for a good night out in Belfast and an example of leading-edge design visit Tatu, the new bar-restaurant designed by Box.
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Forming a bond
Manufacturers are collaborating with designers to create innovative laminates which target those architects brave enough to use these new materials outside the kitchen or bathroom.
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Industrial action
Pollard Thomas Edwards' role in the refurbishment of an Islington canalside warehouse shows how architects can profit from being their own developers.
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Inside out
On a land-locked site in urban north-west London, husband and wife team Gillian Scampton and Andrew Barnett have built a home for themselves. The house is an oasis: a calm and beautifully crafted space that opens on to four gardens.
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Grand designs
In the late 19th century, architects began to collect photographs of buildings around the world, a hobby that goes some way to explaining the eclecticism of Victorian architecture.
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Squaring the cube
Apple’s new G4 Cube, which looks set to continue the success of the iMac, is joined by other new IT developments – in the Internet and printing.
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Dutch courage
It was a brave move for Cork’s municipal art gallery to commission Erick van Egeraat to design a contemporary extension for the museum – but one which paid off.
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True colours
‘Heritage’ paint ranges are the latest weapon of paint makers in the battle for market share. But just how aesthetically or technically authentic are they?
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Colour fast
John Outram is a one-off, designing outlandish, colourful buildings that are like no other architect's work. For the new craft workshops he has designed in rural Northamptonshire, he has finally found a site as eccentric as his aesthetic.
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The collector
The RIBA Drawings Collection may be shut but its assistant curator, Neil Bingham, has never been busier. Between moving the collection to the V&A, he has written a book on design, partly inspired by his own home, and those of his friends – many of the UK’s best ...
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Beyond the fringe
A diverse group of architects are using thatch to create contemporary buildngs that belong anywhere but chocolate boxes and biscuit tins.
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Architects’ fees survey
Workloads may be up, and so, accordingly, are fee levels – but not for everybody. Architects in the South-East are doing best, but other professions, such as solicitors and PR consultants, still charge a much higher hourly rate than architects.
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Singapore swing
Nicola Turner checks into Singapore’s first ‘hip hotel’, the Gallery Evason, by William Lim Associates, and TangGuanBee Architects.
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The school system
Shaking the Foundations: Japanese Architects in DialogueEdited by Christopher Knabe and Joerg Rainer NoennPestel, London, UK£29.95, US$19.95Illustrated b&w throughout.Perhaps the easiest way to make sense of the stylistic diversity of contemporary Japanese architecture is to draw a family tree. Although rigid classification is always controversial, simply identifying the inter-generational chains ...
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Urban resistance
Until recently, all the major jobs in Singapore were swallowed up by international architects. But now the island’s local firms are resisting the foreign domination: not by complaining, as in the past, but by raising their own standards - and it seems to be working.
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Oscar worthy
Sometime social revolutionary, and life-long Communist, Oscar Niemeyer has never been predictable. As the latest addition to Brasília is unveiled, Ricardo Antonio met him to discuss architecture, political exile and the global struggle against poverty.
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The young ones
Young Spanish Architects/Junge Spanische Architekten.David CohnBirkhauser, Basle, SwitzerlandsFr 68, US$40 (paperback)Illustrated colour and b&w throughout.For this fifth volume of the Birkäuser modern European architecture collection, on Spanish architects, the Madrid-based American critic David Cohn worked with 14 studios. The picture that emerges is very promising, both for the group as ...
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US New York Times tower
Foster, Pelli, Piano, Gehry and SOM shortlisted Manhattan’s former red light district, Times Square, is fast becoming a symbol of the new economy, with skyscrapers popping up where more seedy venues used to stand. The crossroads has been recreated by and for the media, with buildings for Condé Nast and ...
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Life and soul
Tadao Ando conceived Yumebutai, his reconstruction of Awaji Island, as a place of peace, tranquility, and a symbol of the rebirth of the city of Kobe.