All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 177
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Uniqtronic: on the right frequency
The lighting industry has always been a prime mover in the field of product innovation. Witness the development of low voltage tungsten halogen lamps, effectively heralding the 'miniaturisation' of light sources, the advent of the sulphur lamp and the advance of LED technology. Now, Clalight's Feltham-based distributor Unitronics is offering ...
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Freak scene
From Metropolis to Gotham City, movie history is littered with futuristic fantasies. But as the new Bond film “The World is Not Enough” shows, cinematic landscapes no longer need to be created in the studio – the battle to design the world’s most sculptural building means that they already exist. ...
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Flying squad
Your building is under attack – from birds. Pest control methods such as strategically placed wires and netting can help, but preventative measures taken at design stage are more effective.
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Family planning
This West London couple are really looking ahead. A rear extension to their Notting HIll house has ensured plenty of room to house children, nanny and relatives when the time comes.
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Genetic engineering
The links between architecture and biology, plus a series of architectural photo guides, cities down the ages, and the development of port cities.
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Drum role
The BFI's London Imax cinema has just opened its doors to an expectant public. Complete with a 20 m-high screen, the largest Imax auditorium in the UK required a very special lighting scheme. Brian Sims reports on the design produced by David Hersey Associates and TME ...
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Early developer
Works such as this, one of architectural photography’s earliest images, are being catalogued, thanks to the Getty Grant Program.
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Lighting design in hospitals and schools
The Building Research Establishment (BRE) is carrying out an ongoing study of the visual environment in hospitals and schools. Examining the quality of daylighting and electric lighting provision in these types of building, the study has also set out to look at the processes by which lighting systems are procured, ...
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Development by degrees
The reinvention of the University of Cincinnati The next five pages reviews the transformation of UC’s campus by some of America’s biggest names, including Gehry and Cobb whose buildings open this month.
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Saving energy with photocell controls
Photocell control of individual fluorescent luminaires has the potential to realise significant electrical energy savings when compared with switchstart and 'standard' high frequency fluorescent fittings. Ian Knight examines the results of a test programme carried out at the Welsh School of Architecture.
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The mile high club
After a decade of South-East Asian domination, the signs are that the Americans are keen to claim back their tall building birthright. The ten-year-old plans for Cesar Pelli’s 609-metre tall Miglin-Beilter Tower in Chicago have been resurrected, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Mile High Illinois” may soon see the light of ...
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The City in Time and Space
The City in Time and SpaceAidan SouthallCambridge University Press£45This book, rightly described as an 'ambitious study', is an extraordinary, somewhat breathless race through the history of cities throughout the world from ancient Sumeria to present-day metropolises. It is full of fascinating and sobering, if generally undeveloped insights: for example, the ...
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The challenge of LEDs
Light-emitting diode technology is set to revolutionise the industry, with the major lamp manufacturers frantically trying to develop new products and applications for general lighting. Richard Forster plots the rise of semiconductors in the lighting sector.
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Get out cause
Emergency lighting legislation is being harmonised, homogenised and ratified to bring European practices and new technology into line. But is all this new legislation missing the point? Light & Lighting searches for an answer.
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Open and shut case
At first glance this Dublin house looks impenetrable, but things are not what they seem. Look through the window and what appeared solid and closed is permeable and open.
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Handle with care
Ironmongery may seem like an insignificant part of a £3 billion project. But nowhere more so than on the Jubilee Line Extension does door hardware have to perform such a vital and complex safety function.
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Knot landing in Canberra
Melbourne practice Ashton Raggatt MacDougall (ARM), in association with Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, last month won the competition to design the US$100 million National Museum of Australia. The museum forms the symbolic heart of the massive government-funded Acton Peninsula Development (APD). When complete, the APD will also incorporate facilities ...
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New buildings and projects in Midwest USA Ground control
This year’s recipient of the AIA’s Architecture Firm Award, Chicago practice Perkins & Will first achieved recognition 63 years ago as an architect of educational facilities. It has since flourished in the world of institutional, public and corporate buildings, with projects in 49 states and 38 countries. With the recently ...
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Ezra Stoller: Building Blocks
Building BlocksErza Stoller: Building BlocksPrinceton Architectural Press£14.95reviewed by David BradyHow may we be said to 'know' buildings? In some cases, it can be from direct experience, in others from published descriptions, maybe drawings. Ultimately, though, ever since Fox Talbot got going with photos of his house, Laycock Abbey, in 1840, ...