All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 31
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Archive TitlesGold standard
Decades of prosaic interventions had dulled the Victorian panache of HBOS’s Edinburgh headquarters. Malcolm Fraser Architects has given the building back its brio.
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Archive TitlesIn the footsteps of Scott
Richard Griffiths Architects didn’t set out to pay homage to George Gilbert Scott when they designed the new wing to his St Pancras Chambers Hotel. But in the end, they just couldn’t help it.
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Archive TitlesMiami goes eco
The United States has appeared resistant to eco-architecture in mainstream applications, but the mood is shifting.
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Archive TitlesHigh drama
Haworth Tompkins’ rebuild of the Young Vic brings out the best of the ‘ugly old sod’, while celebrating the famed theatre’s original eccentricity
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Archive TitlesDeft in Venice
Was this the conference that launched the RIBA as a campaigning organisation, the summit where collective environmental guilt finally overwhelmed the profession?
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Archive TitlesDare to be different
To create innovative buildings, it is necessary to build innovation into your practice, providing the freedom and the courage to experiment.
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Archive TitlesShed culture
Alan Higgs, Australian-born, London-based architect, gives his account of building a farmhouse in the antipodean tradition.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter Robert Garcia
Luxembourg 2007, a cornucopia of art, architecture and culture, opens on 9 December. The man responsible for bringing together a programme that includes 5000 separate events is Robert Garcia...
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Archive TitlesIt’s been a busy month
To Washington, to receive a gift to the RIBA’s British Architectural Library (BAL), from the British ambassador, a set of 64 working drawings of the embassy, designed by Lutyens in 1925. Although we have 4000 of Lutyen’s sketches and 2000 letters, we had only three working drawings, so this ...
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Archive TitlesAlternative history: Sam Jacob
I recently shared a platform at the Yale Centre of British Art with Ed Jones and Robert Maxwell.
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Archive TitlesThe generation gain
A young architect and his mentor explain their special relationship from passing down wisdom to just shooting the breeze
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Twist and shout
Sweeping curves, rotundas, gables – brick can be used to create almost any shape, as this diverse collection of buildings shows. And it is durable, has high thermal mass and good soundproofing. Looks nice too.
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Archive TitlesRiveting stuff
It is one of those brilliantly simple publishing ideas: take Gustave Eiffel’s big book on his celebrated tower, and reissue it in facsimile, with un peu d’histoire as an introduction – La Tour de 300 metres is out in a new edition by Taschen at £70.
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Archive TitlesNow you see it…
London’s visualisation guidance is set to be relaxed, but how can the planners really know how the finished view will look to the human eye?
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Masonry manual reprinted
The third edition of the Structural Masonry Designers’ Manual, regarded as the standard text on the structural use of brick and blockwork, is now out.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Lewes
Until the construction of Basil Spence’s University of Sussex, Lewes – though picturesque – was a working class town more famous for its cement quarries and Phoenix iron works than its stunning topography, antique shops and Bill’s grocers and eatery. With the university came the middle classes. The cement quarries ...
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Archive TitlesLeading lights
RIBA Journal and lighting manufacturer Whitegoods challenged you to come up with a design for a light fitting good enough to be put into production. Here’s the winner and the best of the rest
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Archive TitlesSt Pancras International, London
CASE STUDY - Specialist brick craftsmanship is alive and well, as proved by the transformed CTRL terminus.
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Archive TitlesInside the palazzo
It’s a nice enough idea: to combine art and objects in such a way as to evoke the atmosphere of your typical Renaissance palazzo. Is this a sort of Through the Keyhole with Mr and Mrs Medici? Hmm, a lute, a harpsichord, some posh plates, family portraits by ...
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Archive TitlesHero
Prince Charles famously likened the British Library to an academy for secret police, a sneer that is as unfair as it is inaccurate. You have to go down to the Thames at Vauxhall to see what a secret police HQ really looks like.