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All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 2
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Unité fraternité
Sixty years ago, Joseph Rykwert and his fellow AA students were frustrated by the banality of war-battered Europe’s attempts to rebuild. They wanted a new, shining, social vision for the city, and Corb provided it.
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My dear friends…
Hero-worshipping students, respectful academics, a slightly exasperated FRS Yorke and an affectionate Jane Drew are revealed in this hitherto unpublished selection of Le Corbusier’s vast correspondence, chosen by Irena Murray.
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Kids on the new block
Pupils at Falmouth secondary school had a big say in the look of their rebuilt design and technology block – and the choice of prefabricated timber panels meant they soon saw the results.
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50 years well spent
Trevor Dannatt’s long career should be better appreciated; we may then get to look after his buildings, says Catherine Croft.
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A night with Zaha
Inspired by Grant Gibson’s reference to the Hotel Puerta America in Madrid in his column on designer hotel interiors (‘I’ve seen the light’, RIBAJ August 08), I enticed my husband to spend three nights there recently.
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Archive TitlesWhat is ... Monuments?
In Liverpool this autumn, Monuments is the pairing of the very grand neoclassical Martins Bank with paintings by Terry Duffy.
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OMA in the loop
Well, it finally got there. Plum in the middle of Beijing and just in time for the Olympics last month, the external cladding to OMA’s CCTV HQ is complete.
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Archive TitlesHomage to Ronchamp
During the 1950s Le Corbusier’s influence waxed as travel became easier and architects were able to experience many of his buildings in actuality, rather than through reproductions of photographs such as those by Lucien Hervé.
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Heavy number
Phaidon’s reputation for publishing books that don’t just talk about architecture, but could be mistaken for it, is consolidated with its most recent contribution to the discourse, Le Corbusier Le Grand.
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Archive TitlesHalf-term report
From its early years the RIBA commissioned distinguished artists for a series of presidential portraits, a series broken only in the 1980s. Is it time to resume it? Not to fan egos, but to support the art of portraiture and continue to build a unique record?
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Archive TitlesGlowing tribute
Only the planning stages of the Eglise Saint-Pierre Firminy in the Loire valley belong to Le Corbusier himself. It was finished last year by his protégée José Oubrerie (who had worked with him on the plans), 53 years after its conception.
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Archive TitlesElephant memories
August’s cover photo of the elephant at Copenhagen Zoo and the feature on the new elephant house there (page 32) evoked powerful memories for me.
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The disciple
Corb towered over Gordon Benson’s architectural coming of age, and Benson believes the lack of such a presiding genius today explains a lot about the profession.Portraits by James Bolton
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Archive TitlesSomething’s stirring in the crypt
The Corbusier exhibition opens in Liverpool next month at a venue with its own claims to architectural history. How to provide suitable conditions for the former without intruding on the listed structure of the latter?
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Le Corbusier
Yes, he became a byword for a particular kind of architectural hauteur (though Frank Lloyd Wright could always run him close, both on that and on his never-ending hunger for publicity).
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Come to Venice
Forget critical regionalism, there is a whole new brand of regionalism out there.
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Brief encounter
RIBA Fellow Dr Balkrishna Doshi, now 81, worked for Corb both in his Paris office and on various projects in Ahmedabad. He tells Eleanor Young what it was like.
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Sacré bleu!
An unholy row has broken out between those who want to see a visitor centre and pilgrims’ retreat built at Corb’s chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut and those who see the plans as a betrayal of the great man’s intentions.