All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 162
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Rubber bandstand
You've seen titanium cladding, and know how expensive it is. You've seen recycled cardboard cladding, but don't quite believe that it works. So how about rubber cladding? It's a new one on us – but Benthem Crouwel's Tilburg concert hall proves that it's cheap, effective and could just catch on.
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Aurora australis
Renzo Piano's Aurora Place building, nearing completion in Sydney, has taken on the challenge presented by speculative development. Designed for a developer-client with a long history in Sydney, and a constant eye on the bottom line, it is shaping up as a building that will push the parameters for this ...
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Arabian heights
With the opening of Sir Norman Foster's Al Faisaliah Centre, Riyadh has at last acquired a visible landmark.
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On the waterfront
Water has always been the lifeline of settlements, providing transport, food, water and defence. Even today, almost all the world’s great cities are associated with water. But waterfront buildings have special construction considerations.
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Walking on water
In the late 1980s Olympia & York believed it could do for London what its World Financial Centre on Manhattan’s riverfront had done for New York. It created Canary Wharf with the intention of providing high quality office space for financial groups which had been squeezed out of the City. ...
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US and them
A gift to the RIBA of photos from the US helped to fuel the 19th century enthusiasm for American architecture.
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Swamp thing
Thompson and Rose Architects take time to understand a site. The Gulf Coast Museum of Art, located in a Florida swamp, took even longer than usual.
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Still swinging
Few countries have a level of mono-metropolitan bias to rival London’s dominance of all things British. From banking to Brit-Art, almost all of the UK’s eggs are in one basket. But what a basket.
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Take your seats
Milan isn't the only place to boast a furniture fair - industry head honchos could, if they wanted, spend the whole year networking, winning awards and inspiring each other, all around the world.
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Seats of power
Seating is seen as a primarily aesthetic concern... but all that is about to change. New smart seat technology turns each unit into a revenue stream in itself. Arenas and casinos will be the first to benefit, but in the future no public space will be safe from these sponsored ...
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Play school
Playgrounds are for fun. But are onerous safety legislation and adults’ desire to see their children in ‘nice’ environments taking away genuinely creative opportunities for children to play?
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Starting over
Amid Zimbabwe’s atrocities and political upheaval Piet de Beer is surprised to find two projects setting a new architectural agenda in the capital, Harare.
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Restraining order
Antarchitecture has walked the fine line between wit and wisdom to serve up a restaurant that promises to make sauerkraut sexy
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Wide open spaces
Kisho Kurakawa's Osaka International Convention Centre is a true megastructure, allowing flexibility and future growth, but without monumentalism or formality.
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Starry, starry night
Developers, architects and lighting engineers are coming under increasing pressure to ensure that their finished buildings and designs have a negligible impact on the environment. One of the most recent additions to the growing list of environmental 'undesirables' is light pollution. Just what is light pollution, and what steps ...
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People mover
To Marcial Enchenique, a city’s success depends on how easily the population can move around – something he will expand on at July’s City 2K+ debate more likely to appeal to Ken Livingstone than Richard Rogers.
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Medallion man
The winner of this year's RIBA Gold Medal is, as many expected, Frank Gehry. He may be the populist choice, but he was not the first choice of the architects surveyed by the RIBAJ. So what does his winning say about the prize and its value?by Naomi Stungo
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Life through a lens
Pentagram has designed a new resource for the Natural History Museum that aims to encourage children of all ages to look a little bit closer.
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Urban infill
You don't find many courtyard houses in this country, especially not with debris-adorned grottoes at their centre. Could Peter Wadley's true original signal a move away from tasteful white?
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A happening kind of place
Just off Warwick's heritage trail, Glen Howells Architects' glazed wrap-around extension is both a home to temporary art installations and a light-filled living space.