All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 170
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Ove Arup hq, Cardiff Bay
M&E consultant Ove Arup & Partners has designed its own regional head office in the fast-developing Cardiff Bay area. Mixing daylighting with special electric sources, the building is intended to have a studio-style feel. Does the lighting match up to the engineers’ desire not only for this, but also for ...
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American dreams
The status of the US as the nation of free thought, radical ideas and popular movements – either home-grown or via its immigrants – is epitomised in two new books, one on new urbanism, and one on the Bauhaus.
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A cut above
Fabric which ends up under the neutral glare of Marks & Spencers shops starts off in Avci & Jurca's jewel-bright textile showroom in Marylebone.
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The sky’s the limit
When is a roof not a roof? When it’s ajar, of course. The retractable roof, considered a trophy detail for clients with James Bond pretensions, is claiming validity as a component of high-density urban living.
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The Bauhaus and America: The first contacts 1919-1936
The Bauhaus and America: The first contacts 1919-1936Margret Kentgens-CraigMIT Press 1999£24.95The Bauhaus closed on 10 August 1933, in Berlin. The Nazis destroyed it and accused Mies van der Rohe, its director, of 'Americanisation'. A few years later, Mies began a new career in Chicago where Moholy Nagy's short-lived New Bauhaus ...
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Setting standards
Awkward planners, indecisive clients and unreliable contractors can make life tough enough, but constantly changing legislation could also send you back to the drawing board. Don’t worry – this guide to the latest amendments to the Building Regulations will bring you up to speed.
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Restored vision
Using photographic records to provide evidence for restoration is nothing new – the 1860 restorer of this French château was one of its staunchest advocates.
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The real thing
Real tennis courts are traditionally in picturesque locations such as Hampton Court or Hatfield House. But, despite the more mundane setting, Middlesex University’s new court, by Pringle Richards Sharratt, easily matches the elegance of its predecessors.
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How does that sound?
To join ever more advanced modelling techniques, computer visualisation has now extended into the aural area, with a new acoustic software package to help clients and architects hear their projects.
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Getting into shape
The Laboratory Spa and Health Club – opposite the Hendon RAF Museum – typifies the constraints of site and commerce of its genre, and introduces some new solutions to perennial architectural and human problems.
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Home front
Reinforcing its track record for good quality social housing, Walter Menteth Architects has used materials in a new and unusual way to provide a low-energy building with a strong presence in east London.
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European House Now
European House Now Susan Doubilet and Daralice Boles Thames & Hudson £14.95 This book is excellent value for money. For £14.95, Thames & Hudson has produced a luscious picture book. It's packed with more than 200 crisp and gorgeous colour photographs of private houses across Europe, making every page ...
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Regeneration: The Story of the Dome
Regeneration: The Story of the Dome Adam Nicolson Harper Collins £19.99 Don't be put off by the official New Millennium Experience Company logo. Despite some 'heavy encounters' with Jennie Page, NMEC's chief executive, author Adam Nicolson has produced an objective account of the struggle to deliver the world's most ambitious ...
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Divine office
Stress is a very real concern in the workplace and costs employers millions every year. With the government considering regulation of stress under health and safety laws, RIBAJ looks at the future for the 21st-century office.
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Radical cheek
Blink and you wouldn't notice the difference. Paris's most famous 20th-century building looks, externally, remarkably like it did before £55 million was spent on sprucing it up. But for Richard Rogers the decision to make visitors pay to ride the outside escalators is undemocractic and goes against the spirit in ...
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Budget forecast
Integrated job-costing and accounting software can be as integral to the efficiency of a practice as CAD, and makes everyone’s lives easier, even those of the creative types.
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Art on the high street
Caruso St John is an enigma. The practice claims to work hard at designing buildings that are part of the everyday. Yet, although it is sandwiched between a Woolworths and a BHS, its competition-winning Walsall Art Gallery, which opens this month, is far from ordinary.
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The Architecture of John Lautner
The Architecture of John Lautner Photographs by Alan Weintraub, text by Alan Hess Thames & Hudson £40 Remember that fantastic house where James Bond had to fight the gorgeous guards in Diamonds Are Forever? It's so over the top as a house that one assumed it was a film set. ...
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Team players
Thanks to new networking services, using the Internet to transfer project information between offices is an alternative way for even the smallest office to work more effectively.
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Philips X-Tends luminaire technology
Lamps giant Philips clearly means business as the lighting industry enters the new Millennium. The wraps are off on a raft of new and innovative products – including the X-Tend luminaire and its OLC optics, and a revised version of the popular ArenaVision floodlights – all of which are ready ...