All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 32
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Archive TitlesGetting the politicians on-message
In September and October we were at all three political party conferences with a message.
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Archive TitlesFriends for life
Time and fashion can be cruel to buildings too, says Robert Adam. Durable, sustainable design and materials give them a much better chance of a useful, graceful old age
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Archive TitlesFreestanding walls
TECHNICAL - Freestanding walls are attractive, robust and enduring, but they need careful attention to design and specification. Mike Hammett looks at the structural implications
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Filling a vacuum
When James Dyson needed a factory, he chose Chris Wilkinson to design it; it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship…
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Archive TitlesSalad days
With its emphasis on modern design, sensitive landscaping and affordability, the example of Span housing remains as relevant today as when the company started building in the 1950s.
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Archive TitlesWho dares wins
Every name in RIBAJ’s Top 50 Clients survey is a good patron of architecture, and the very best are those unafraid to take a risk
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Archive TitlesHow to keep your cool
A large, deep-plan building with natural ventilation, daylighting and passive cooling strategies can use less than half the energy of a standard air-conditioned one and yet keep interiors comfortable and up to 5º below ambient temperatures in summer.
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Archive TitlesClassical craftsmen at work
This summerhouse by George Saumarez Smith of Robert Adam Architects is the overall winner of the Ibstock Downland Prize 2006. Located in the grounds of a grade II* listed building near New Alresford in Hampshire, the summerhouse was praised by the judges as a delightful work that demonstrates both a ...
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Archive TitlesDance City, Newcastle
CASE STUDY - Traditional brickwork contrasts with steel frame and coloured glazing to create a striking composition.
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Cartoon capers
This is ‘book as object’: the square-format, padded-cover tome comes encased in a metal cage patterned on the Liam Gillick-designed brise-soleil for the building it covers. Colour spreads abound, explained through miniatures at the back of the book in the manner of a top-level fashion catalogue; it comes with ...
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Archive TitlesGauged brickwork update
Donhead has published a second edition of Gerard Lynch’s Gauged Brickwork, which is fast becoming the standard reference work on the subject. This edition has been substantially updated with new material and includes a detailed historical perspective on the development of the craft.
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Archive TitlesSchool of Slavonic Studies, Bloomsbury
CASE STUDY - A striking newcomer to Georgian Bloomsbury is breaking new ground in sustainable design. George Demetri reports
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Barns business
People often express surprise that more architects don’t do their own development to diversify their business, reaping the rewards of their own creations and being their own client. It may be because the opportunities come so rarely, or that an unwarranted amount of effort has initially to put in to ...
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Ove Arup: The Masterbuilder of the Twentieth Century
Rarely is structural engineering such a matter of life and death:
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Architects like to think …
… they have all the great ideas, yet without patrons to realise those ideas, they are helpless.
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Archive TitlesIt’s all back to front
Built using conventional cavity masonry, South Bank University’s £17m Keyworth Centre is an imposing landmark in London’s Elephant & Castle area. Designed by BDP and completed in 2003, the nine-storey building provides lecture theatres, teaching spaces and offices.
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Archive TitlesAll one under the sun
For the monolithic concrete facade of its Palace of Justice in Barcelona, David Chipperfield Architects found pigmentation answered its calls for consistency of tone and colour.
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Green agenda
It is right that sustainability tops the agenda in construction today. But I find it totally unacceptable when brick, a material proven to last for centuries with very little maintenance, is grouped with so-called ‘modern’ materials that are classed as having a life of only 60 years.