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All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 4
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Godfrey Spanner, the director of the Onslow Property Group, tells Eleanor Young about his plans for a £350m winter sports resort to be built in an old quarry near Ipswich
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BRE has training monopoly
I am increasingly concerned at the monopolistic situation of the BRE. It has worked itself to be the sole provider and arbiter regarding building energy.
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Archive TitlesWho are... Bompas and Parr?
An architectural and design practice dedicated to having serious fun with food, that’s who. Chums Sam Bompas and Harry Parr share a passion for the theatricality of food presentation.
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Archive TitlesBleak view of justice
On viewing David Chipperfield’s new City of Justice in Barcelona (RIBAJ, July 08), I cannot share the regret that he has not built more in Britain.
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Bartlett gives a good party
The Bartlett has most definitely not split the main party from its annual Summer Show of student work as suggested in your ‘Education’ piece (Product focus, RIBAJ July 08, page 72).]
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Archive TitlesZoom in zoom out by ‘Avatar’
Extravagant and eccentric follies make perfect fodder for the worldwide web, where so many offerings are just that.
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Archive TitlesBottom, thou art translated
Thanks to Prewett Bizley’s imaginative design, a trip to the loo has become part of the enchantment of an evening at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park.
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Flawed argument
I do agree with Paul Moore’s contention that the evidence for mankind’s responsibility in respect of global warming is deeply flawed (Letters, June 08), but not for the reasons he gives.
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Archive TitlesAngles of repose
It’s the angled roof that distinguishes Ian McChesney’s Avenham Park pavilion in Preston and sets it off so dramatically from its arboreal surroundings.
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Archive TitlesAmerican idyll
The 19th century was a great age of urban park construction seen, for example, in Sir Joseph Paxton’s parks in Liverpool and Birkenhead and those of Adolphe Alphand in Paris.
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Archive TitlesJust add water
Instant Cities looks at the development of the concept of the city but like a poorly planned transport system, it too often misses connections
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Archive TitlesAce of trumps
The director of Copenhagen Zoo liked the British Museum’s Great Court so much he asked Foster + Partners to reprise it as an elephant house. Nellie wouldn’t trundle back to the jungle with quarters like these.
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Toshed up
They do things differently in Scotland. The Glasgow School of Art, famous for its Mackintosh building and its Mackintosh architecture school, has been promised a stonking £50m from the Scottish Funding Council to replace three of its somewhat less noble post-war buildings, just opposite.
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Archive TitlesWritten in stone
Vanbrugh’s buildings are full of history, symbolism and drama, as a fascinating new study shows
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Archive TitlesPeer pressure
The brief for Golden Lane Campus in Islington was complicated enough – then throw in a design review panel of parent-practitioners.
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Archive TitlesMen of substance
Sculptor Antony Gormley is an old client, friend and collaborator of Chipperfield, who designed his King’s Cross studio. Here the two converse about the pull of tradition, modernism and the compulsion to create on a human scale.
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Archive TitlesFrom Prussia with love
Reassembling Berlin’s Neues Museum was always going to be a delicate negotiation with Germany’s turbulent 20th century history, but Chipperfield has done considerably more than simply replicate the past.
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Archive TitlesLone ranger
David Chipperfield cut his teeth in the offices of Foster and Rogers, but was forced to find his architectural voice abroad. He reflects on why it happened that way.
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Archive TitlesLaw unto itself
Soft colours and subtle siting mitigate the vastness of Barcelona’s new City of Justice – but the local jury is still out.