All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 163
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Growing pains
When a practice grows or its work develops, its use of IT inevitably develops, too. But it is important to control such growth, not to be overwhelmed by it. Here are some tips.
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Game on
The brief’s aim for ‘a strong sense of quality, openness and creativity’ in Foster and Partners’ British HQ for Electronic Arts comes through strongly in the concourse, which has many qualities of a public street, less so in the more conventional office floor plates.
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The Finnished product
Sibelius Concert Hall is a rich combination of Finnish legend and architectural innovation. Youthful duo Hannu Tikka and Kimmo Lintula have created a new landmark within a developing lakeside residential area, which reflects current trends in Finnish culture and design.
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Finding a voice
Marco Goldschmied, of the Richard Rogers Partnership, is blowing away the cobwebs in the Royal Institute of British Architects. His dream is to de-mystify the role of the architect and celebrate the off-the-wall thinking that is the hallmark of British design.
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Eyes wide open
Nothing beats seeing a building for yourself – walking beneath Foster’s Hong Kong Shanghai Bank and listening to the twittering Filippino maids as they share picnics in the shade on their afternoon off; standing in the sun beneath one of the segments of Utzon's Sydney Opera House or queueing for ...
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Enter the dragon
The dragon, sitting on its hoard of cut-glass jewels, guards the approach to its court, wherein a cluster of carved objects are craftily set to catch the rays of the westering sun. Whimsical? Not according to Monahan Blythen Architects.
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Dock therapy
Michael Wilford’s Lowry Centre is the first in a new wave of lottery-funded waterfront regeneration projects across the UK. Is this trend for culture on the water purely a practical way of reviving the remains of Britain’s maritime legacy, or is there a hidden agenda?
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Diplomacy rules
The Lighting Education Trust has launched a nationwide distance learning course. Leading to the award of a Diploma in Lighting, the well-structured teaching programme is aimed at mainstream lighters, architects, electrical engineers and interior designers: all those, in fact, who need or want to add to their existing lighting design ...
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Light to delight
The CIBSE Lighting Division and its predecessor, the Illuminating Engineering Society, were noted for producing first-rate technical advice and lighting guides that continue to inform consultants and architects’ decisions to this day. But has this adherence to the rational and logical aspects of lighting design masked a deeper need – ...
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Dealing in digital
The advent of the Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) offers tremendous opportunities for designers – with the promise of far more flexible lighting control. However, misconceptions about what DALI truly represents have caused some confusion in the industry.
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Discipline counts
Like so many things in life, you get out of your personnel only as much as you put in. Dan Fox talks to three very different practices about in-house training for their designers. The aim, in all cases, is to mould a company man, or woman, without cramping creative ...
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Clinical precision
Hodder Associates’ Modernist design language transforms a bland Victorian building in the nondescript Manchester suburb of Levenshulme into a functional surgery through its evocation of an intellectual programme.
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Floored for choice
Understanding the benefits and drawbacks of different stone floors goes a long way towards avoiding expensive and time-consuming mistakes.
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Celebrity chairs
It's hard to think of a member of contemporary architecture's glitterati that hasn't designed furniture. It's been the done thing for a long time. But do today's dabblers have the theoretical profundity of their predecessors? And, if not, does it matter? Dan Fox looks at some of the latest examples.
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Canada Disgrace in Montréal
Architects must be protected against bully clients Provencher Roy et Associés (PRA), a Montréal-based practice, has been left more than US$68,750 (C$100,000) out of pocket because of a change of mind by Québec’s provincial government real estate agency, Société Immobilière du Québec (SIQ).Last year, Québec’s SIQ named a 13-person professional ...
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Books received
Bank Builders Edwin Heathcote Wiley-Academy £50 For a building type that started with Michelozzo and Alberti, and now exercises Foster, Gehry and Botta, banks are remarkably under-researched. Edwin Heathcote's Bank Builders begins to redress the balance, collating nearly 50 recent banks by 23 architects. Many are familiar, and they are ...
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Chromatic light sources: the relationship between luminance and brightness
Research to date suggests that strongly coloured light is perceived as being brighter than white light of the same photometric luminance, and that recognised photometric tests may be inappropriate for measuring and quantifying coloured sources. Karen van Creveld reports on a series of simple laboratory-style experiments aimed at providing some ...
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The lightness of being
An enjoyable biography of Sir Hugh Casson, best remembered for his work on the Festival of Britain; and a survey of French country houses.
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Blown away
In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes may hardly ever happen, but even in our mild weather conditions, wind tunnel tests are valuable in determining how structures behave in, and affect, their local environment.
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Fairground attractions
RIBAJ trawled the exhibition stands and showrooms at the recent Milan Furniture Fair to bring you the latest and best new designs. Together they are published in our first ever Milan review.