All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 178
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The myth of the great Balkan rebuilding
Although architects everywhere have more or less given up waiting for the wall of money that was supposed to finance the reconstruction of the Balkans after the Kosovo crisis, it is interesting to look at the reasons for its non-appearance. As late as last June NATO was promising that $32 ...
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Underneath the arches
As a retail opportunity, London's new leisure attraction dedicated to wine could work, but promises of dramatically themed rooms to help tell the story of the UK's favourite tipple fail to live up to expectation.by Amanda Baillieu
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Light roads ahead
A revolutionary lighting system, currently being trialled in the Netherlands, allows traffic to switch from two to three lanes or more in peak periods. Brian Sims examines the latest application for fibre optics and LEDs.
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Heavens above
A new suspended ceiling system from North America is about to arrive in the UK, and could make it easier for architects to use curves when designing ceilings.
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Tales from the riverbank
Hawkins Brown's mix of new-build and refurbishment for a housing project on the bank of the Thames is the practice's first speculative development, and one which had to marry social ideas with market reality
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Love, love me do
One of the iconic buildings of the 1960s, RMJM's Commonwealth Institute, is standing empty awaiting a future.
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Let there be light
The provision of efficient and cost-effective lighting, both natural and artificial, is a major factor in avoiding sick building syndrome
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Home rule
The effortlessly simple look of Skywood – designed by its architect owner in Home Counties green belt – belies a feat of complex construction and a faith in modern materials.
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Euro star
Unlike his colleagues in the museum world, Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has no permanent base, but spends his time travelling across Europe with his mobile phone. He is about to make his mark in London with an exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum.
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Endangered species
In July the RIBA published 'Meeting the Challenge', a strategy document for architects and architecture for the next five years. Here Allen Cunningham, who stood down from RIBA Council last month, argues that in contemporary society historic institutions have no absolute right to exist and, furthermore, ...
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Dear Tony,
You asked for my confidential political assessment of Richard's report 'Towards an Urban Renaissance'. Here it is, with a flagged copy. Note its resemblance to Ruthie's River Cafe Cook Book Two (same yellow cover, similar lettering) which you and Cherie ...
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Concrete couture
Concrete cladding doesn't have to be the conservative option. New printing techniques suggest a revival of ornamentation in architecture.
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Travelling companions
As a seasonal departure from our usual book review pages, RIBA honorary fellows reveal what they'll be reading over the summer.
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Trail blazer
The Napper Partnership's footbridge at Hadrian's Wall, winner of an RFAC award, floats over the river in the footsteps of the Roman crossing.
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Swimming against the tide
Stainless steel pools are leakproof, quick to build and virtually maintenance-free. Yet they are still on the margins of a market dominated by concrete and tiles.
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Ten years on
How convenient that the International Academy of Architecture (IAA) chose to launch its quarterly magazine World Architecture in 1989, giving us the chance to celebrate our tenth anniversary in conjunction with a retrospective on international architecture of the 1990s. Most publishers would avoid launching a new title in the grip ...
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Shooting stars
Murray Grigor, whose latest film is about Glasgow architect Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, is obsessed with bringing architecture to a new audience, and has just become the first film-maker to be made an honorary fellow of the RIBA.
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Split personality
Greenhill Jenner Architects' teaching and administration centre for the campus of the south London Bethlem hospital uses material and colour to differentiate between function.