All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 174
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England's Thousand Best Churches
England’s Thousand Best ChurchesSimon JenkinsPenguin£25Handsome has come to be one of the most subversive words in the English language. Applied to a man it has hints of boring self-absorption; applied to a woman it hints at a large nose, bigger feet and a lack of sex appeal. To call a ...
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IM Pei rises to Beijing challenge
China’s favourite son makes rare attack on Communist government
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Coming of Age
Taiwan has long sought an individual identity. For 20 years it was viewed as a temporary refuge from the communist forces in China, and its architecture was sidelined as a result. As the island matures, and the confidence of its people grows, a small group of architects is challenging the ...
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Action Man
Sunand Prasad may be the busiest man in architecture. He runs his own practice, sits on every architecture committee going and has recently been persuaded to become a CABE commissioner.
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Glass of 99
Glass has come a long way – in terms of both public perception and technology – since I M Pei's Louvre pyramid caused such uproar in 1993. Almost any architectural idea can now be expressed in glass, and it is the defining material of many of this year's most acclaimed ...
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Doctorin’ the house
Houlton Taylor s medical centre in a residential street in North London suggests a way of adapting the suburban semi for new uses.
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You’re so transparent
European government buildings have made headlines in 1999, and not always for the right reasons. Few have a good word to say about the European Parliament in Strasbourg, with some brave souls even daring to criticise Foster’s revamped Reichstag. Adam Mornement looks for common denominators behind the complaints, and asks ...
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White on white
Architecture plb's Textile Conservation Centre completes the practice's masterplan for Winchester School of Art, making it one of the most carefully considered modern campuses around.
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Surface tension
Traditional ceramic sanitaryware is facing new rivals in the form of advanced composites and coatings from science-led manufacturers. Architects and specifies will have to decide whether to stick with what they know, or to pay a little more and go with the flow...
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Realm of the senses
Knaresborough's new arts and crafts centre for the blind comfortably combines the work of two architects, but finds it harder to reconcile its public and private functions with real elegance.
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Prodigious prodigals
In 1951, two 20-something architects from the opposite sides of Europe met in Eero Saarinen’s Michigan office. Troubled times at home had given them little option but to carve out their own slices of the American dream. Since then one has won the Pritzker Prize, the other is an AIA ...
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Pre-fabulous
At the Montevetro Tower, the Richard Rogers Partnership's acclaimed residential project under construction in London, pre-fabricated cell bathrooms are being lifted into position and slotted into the structure. Dan Fox asks what this new method might mean for ceramics specifiers.
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Obsession
On 10 September 1989, the Hungarian government opened its borders to allow East Germans access to West Germany. It was the start of a chain reaction which culminated in the collapse of the Berlin Wall. In 1989 all Hungarian architects worked for the state, with inward investment an ideological no-no. ...
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Now we are ten
The Design Museum has come a long way in its 10 years, leading, and riding, a surge in popular interest. But what of the next decade? Will director Paul Thompson keep the pioneering flame burning, or take an entirely different direction?
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The new revolution
The 1990s has been a boom decade for stadiums. Vast sums of media money have been poured into sports and entertainment, and architects have responded with technical gymnastics enabling every last dollar to be squeezed out of each new enterprise. Simon Inglis charts the rise of a building sector that ...
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Measure of success
‘Architects Fees 1999’ is published this month, giving information on what level of fee to charge for 42 different building types, and hourly charge-out rates for architects of varying job titles around the country.