All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 25
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Archive TitlesEvery little helps
A certification scheme launched this month will help architects assess microgeneration power systems. You might qualify for a grant too...
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Archive TitlesDream merchants
Many architects have big ideas, but Marks Barfield get theirs built. The latest is a 140m observation tower on Brighton seafront.
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Archive TitlesDetective story
Do we need another Scarpa book? Yes, says Richard Murphy, because this one brings to light previously unknown works.
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Archive TitlesJust your cup of tea?
It’s fair to say that the Heatherwick Studio-designed East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton, Sussex, due to open this month, has split the RIBA Journal office in half.
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Coastal current
A chain of galleries is opening along the South-east coast. Alan Haydon, director of the De La Warr Pavilion, explains.
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Coast to coast
In the United Kingdom we are conditioned by the idea of the coast. It defines our identity.
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Archive TitlesOne careful owner
Using secondhand prefabs for a campus nursery in east London not only scored environmental points but freed cash for imaginative outdoor spaces.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Allan Brodie, (yes, that’s him in the picture), is a senior investigator at English Heritage, who has spent the past five years researching the history of the UK’s seaside towns. He tells Grant Gibson about the peculiarities and challenges of our coastal life
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Archive TitlesBrine in the blood
Of all the elements in the Shetland Islands’ history, the dominant one is always the sea. BDP’s new museum in Lerwick is suitably salty.
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Archive TitlesOh, we do like to be beside the seaside…
… where the brassbands play, tiddley-om-pom-pom! The picture postcard view of our seaside may be long gone, but, for all the talk of decline, many of our coastal towns are thriving. By Fred Gray
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Archive TitlesBay watch – art on the coast
If architecture has a key role to play in reviving our coastal resorts, then so too does art.
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Archive TitlesAhoy there
Charles Dickens praised Folkestone for furnishing ‘a picture with such music in the billowy rush upon the shingle, such charms of sight and sound as all the galleries on earth can but poorly suggest’.
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Wood’s a winner
Entries are now open for The Wood Awards 2007. The premier prize for wood in buildings and furniture is in its fifth year covering virtually every type of project in construction, joinery and furniture.
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Archive TitlesWere turning up the volume
Does every president come to the Institute as a critic and leave as a fan – slightly frustrated we can’t do enough to achieve our huge potential?
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Archive TitlesStreet theatre
LEDs have given architects a wonderful new tool for transforming urban space. Just don’t let the multimillion colour choices go to your head.
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Archive TitlesZoom in, zoom out
I’ve always found bricks, mortar and concrete a little ‘last century’, but happily all those tedious real-world materials are superfluous in Second Life, the immense online world or ‘metaverse’ where designers, architects and businesses while away their actual lives by living in silicon.
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Archive TitlesNecropolis now
London practice mæ has a special interest in the architecture of burial, so it’s fitting that its first civic commission is a cemetery in North Hertfordshire. By Hugh Pearman. Photographs: Michele Panzeri
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Worsley memoriam
Architectural historian Giles Worsley, who died of cancer last year at the age of only 44, is to be commemorated by a travel fellowship set up by his wife Joanna Pitman.
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Archive TitlesModern masterpiece seeks tenants
Fancy taking on a listed modern masterpiece? You can: the National Trust wants appreciative tenants for Patrick Gwynne’s masterly, restored Surrey house The Homewood. This sprawling 1938 family home, set in acres of woodland, was lived in by Gwynne up to his death in 2003.