All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 3
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Seeing is believing
Some are born worshippers, some are converts, some doubters – and some think he’s the devil incarnate. We ask eight leading practitioners what they think of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret.
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Beijing's eclectic edifices
The diverse styles of Beijing’s Olympic buildings have a precedent in the Chinese government’s construction programme of 1959.
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Bat out of hell
No superhero depends more on his habitat than Batman, so it’s a shame the latest Gotham is so bland
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Zoom in zoom out by ‘Avatar’
Given the spread of Le Corbusier’s designs across the globe, the web should be the perfect place to unite them – yet sites specific to him seem rather sparse.
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Archive TitlesThe Robotism of Architecture
The first English translation of Vers une Architecture appeared in 1927 as Towards a New Architecture. Here we reproduce Edwin Lutyens’ review from the Observer of 29 January 1928.
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Archive TitlesStraw’s in the wind
Prefabrication alone is not enough. Committed young architects are ensuring the next generation of modular units is designed for sustainability, from manufacture to disposal.
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Archive TitlesTonic with a splash
Refurbishment of Morecambe’s 1930s jewel, the Midland Hotel, by Union North, is just the start of a wider regeneration scheme by Flacq. And this once-glamorous resort is sorely in need of a fillip.
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Salaries
Architects’ salaries are still outperforming inflation. Just released, the RIBA/Fees Bureau Architects’ Employment Survey 2008 shows salaries up 6% on 2007, climbing at twice the rate of inflation.
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Rotunda reminiscences
I read with much nostalgia the article ‘Round of applause’ in the June 2008 issue of the RIBA Journal.
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Archive TitlesLetter from... Vaux-le-Vicomte
Bon viveur Jan-Carlos Kucharek chills out at the chateau – but all is not quite what it seems in the garden…
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At your leisure
It’s August and holidays beckon. What better time for the architectural flâneur to take a gentle stroll through the latest leisure-related architecture?
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I’ve seen the light
‘Designer’ hotels have gone about as far as they can go, says Grant Gibson. Cultural grazing is the new paradigm.
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Moving house
The RIBA Journal is moving home. After a number of years when we have been published in a joint-venture arrangement with publisher CMPi (inheritor of the former Builder Group), we have amicably dissolved that relationship. In consequence, the RIBAJ is once again 100% owned by the RIBA.
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Archive TitlesA global profession
The 23rd UIA Congress and General Assembly was held at Turin from 29 June to 4 July in the refurbished Fiat factory at Lingotto.
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Archive TitlesGive us a hand
Dear RIBAJ readers and fellow architects, we, Ben Pulford and Matt Lowther, both architects working at R H Partnership in Cambridge, have entered the Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race 2009; 3000 miles of nonstop rowing.
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Archive TitlesFrench Polish
What is one of France’s greatest architects and the brains behind the Bibliothèque Nationale doing serving up a municipal cafe in Reigate? Getting to know the English, apparently.
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Archive TitlesLight entertainment
A glowing, demountable structure for corporate functions has been thrust on top of the National Theatre on London’s South Bank. So how has Sir Denys Lasdun’s masterpiece taken to this interloper?
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Archive TitlesNous sommes en vacances
Jef Smith is used to designing on tight urban sites after years working at Jestico + Whiles.
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Archive TitlesGehry goes Cubist
We associate Frank Gehry with swooping curves, do we not? Something of a surprise, then, to find the world’s favourite iconmeister – and of course the architect of this summer’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion in London – stacking and skewing rectilinear blocks instead.