All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 21
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Archive TitlesGimme shelter
Corrugated iron is often associated with poverty and ugliness, but it is its cheapness and versatility that have made it such a ubiquitous material for temporary shelter – plus it makes a terrific children’s hideaway.
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Short-term gains
Working on temporary structures allows architects to develop ideas that go beyond the conventional, says Simon Beames.
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Archive TitlesExterior views
‘Is this a chair?’ enquires one elderly American visitor of her equally elderly friend. ‘Er, I think it must be,’ comes the uncertain response. ‘Well, it doesn’t look very comfortable.’
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RFH frontage is dull
When we built the Royal Festival Hall, the war and the period of austerity could be put behind us. We looked forward – tentatively, but hopefully – to a better Britain.
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Vive la difference
What a welcome relief it was to read Gavin Stamp’s article ‘Good riddance’ (RIBAJ July 07).
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Das Englischer Haus
It’s taken more than a century but finally one of the most influential architecture books ever, The English House by Hermann Muthesius, is available in full three-volume translation.
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Archive TitlesZoom in, zoom out by Sarah Brownlee
Where’s the summer gone? It’s absolutely pouring down (well, it is as Zoom goes to press, anyway) and poor old Hull has been in a right old mess.
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British demolition tactics
Last year you closed a heated debate in your columns about the Israel/Palestine issue.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
The Lift New Parliament is a transportable meeting and performance space. Geoff Shearcroft, director of AOC, the winning design team, tells Jan-Carlos Kucharek about the world of difference between demountable and permanent buildings.
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Archive TitlesMixed blessing
A waste product of steel-smelting could cut the carbon emissions of concrete by up to 40%. So how come more architects don’t know about it? By Jan-Carlos Kucharek.
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Don’t blame superstars
Gavin Stamp (last issue) argues against the internationalisation of architecture; the dilution of the formerly exotic and the contamination of the homespun.
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Temporary architecture
Henri Alain-Fournier’s yearningly evocative novel of 1912, Le Grand Meaulnes, sometimes known in translation as The Lost Domain, is to do with a moment – and a place – of transcendent beauty and possibility.
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Screen stars
Foreign Office Architects came to international stardom with Yokohama Port Terminal. Now it’s low-cost social housing in Spain, and that takes imagination too. Words and photos by Hugh Pearman
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Raising the roof
While I enjoyed reading your issue about the Royal Festival Hall reopening (RIBAJ June 07), there is an error at the top of the first paragraph on page 47 where it is stated ‘But the overall massing of the hall, complete with its gently curving boat-hull roof, is present and ...
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Piers of the realm
I found the coastal towns article by Fred Gray very interesting (RIBAJ May 07).