All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 182
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Risky business
Fidel Castro seems to have changed his tune since declaring the property board game Monopoly “a symbol of an imperialist and capitalist system”, and ordering that every set in Cuba be destroyed. In a breathtaking display of double standards, life is being injected into the real estate market, and architects ...
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Bridge has the Wright stuff
50 years on Frank Lloyd Wright still outclasses the opposition
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Hidden assets
Bare white plaster was used to brilliant effect at the recent Museum of Scotland. This report asks why the technique is not more popular with architects.
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Stressful architecture
After the recession put an early scheme on hold, Richard Rogers Partnership’s new City office building had to be redesigned with a third more space within the same volume – for half the money.
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Castro seeks 'new visions' from architects
“Today the imminent ‘invasion’ of the expected or feared change of the post- Castro era and the harbingers of real capitalism can be sensed,” says Peter Noever, organiser of the Havana Project, an exhibition opening in Havana in October and inspired by the conference The Havana Project - Architecture Again ...
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Family affair
When a former senior member of staff at the Tate Gallery and his wife wanted a new home, they commissioned their son.
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Speaking in tongues
A new ceder and brick addition to Royal Holloway College uses the latest natural cooling techniques.
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Room with a view
A house extension on the Isle of Wight offers an open-plan living space rather than conforming to twee seaside stereotypes.
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Pitch it strong
The focus on energy conservation has led to research into an alternative roof solution to the traditional ventilated system, which challenges conventional wisdom but still complies with the Building Regulations.
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Low-down on lifts
Lifts are undergoing a series of upheavals which architects need to know about, even if they never design a bespoke lift like the one below by Richard Horden Associates.
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PowerGen HQ
An efficient and highly flexible workspace was the brief for Phase II of PowerGen's award-winning Midlands hq. What part has the lighting design played in realising the client's dreams?
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Tripping the light fantastic
It's curtain up time at London's New Sadler's Wells Theatre, where a vast array of specially-designed spotlights, wallwashers, downlights and fibre optics combine to provide a dramatic scene for artists and theatre-goers alike.
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Exercise in moderation
Community development was never one of the LDDC's strong points, but just before its demise last year the corporation ensured that a new sports and community centre designed by Proctor Matthews would, finally, be built.
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Crafty work
A weighty tome provides a comprehensive and well-written analysis of the history of crafts in Britain throughout this century.
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Lighting controls: are they working?
One of the key issues in the design of today's intelligent buildings is the interface between the technology operating them and end-users the building occupants. A perfect example of such an interface is the control of electric lighting.
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Immaculate contraption
Richard Horden Associates has designed a patient bed lift at Hammersmith Hospital.
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All white on the night
Metal halide lamps have been around in one form or another for the last 30 years or so. A follow-up to the basic mercury vapour lamp, metal halides found favour because they were potentially twice as efficient as the mercury product, and up to four times more efficient than tungsten ...
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Adaptation: responding to change
Preadaptation plays a central role in people's perceptions of the lit environment. Indeed, this is a very important issue because the design of circulation spaces can influence the lighting energy use in rooms leading off them. Occupants entering a room from a bright atrium space or a gloomy corridor, for ...
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On the waterfront
Sir Rocco Forte wanted Patrick Davies to design him a luxury hotel that would put him and Cardiff Bay on the map.
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Save our skins
At cladding testing centres you can see what your building's facade will look like for the first time, but more importantly you can eliminate problems that could cost a fortune later on.