All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 43
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Archive TitlesHome rules
Take one volume housebuilder, a large D&B scheme and three architects, and what do you get? Some fine, and very well behaved, housing. Main photographs: Peter Cook/view
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Archive TitlesHappiness per hectare
If housing density was defined by rooms rather than dwellings per hectare, it could have huge implications for development. Rather than cramming couples into tiny boxes, we could create city places that would draw families back from the suburbs.
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Enter the dragon
China is notorious for its polluted cities and frenetic urban growth driven by huge population drift from the countryside. There's a lot riding on an Arup masterplan for a post-industrial, sustainable model city near Shanghai.
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Archive TitlesDouble first
Oliver Chapman Architects' modest semis on the edge of a Borders village could prove to be a prototype for sustainable rural housing.
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Archive TitlesTight corner
Munkenbeck + Marshall was forced to pack a lot into these mixed-tenure flats on a small site in inner London. The dramatic balconies are their saving grace.
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Archive TitlesChips with everything
Walker Simpson's library and sixth form college for a deprived part of Manchester aims to nourish its users in more ways than one.
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Letter from Chatham
English Heritage says heritage can be the soul of the Thames Gateway.
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Archive TitlesAfter Holyrood
Architecture in Scotland 2004-2006: Defining Place, Edited by Morag Bain, The Lighthouse, £9.99 Review by Mark Cousins
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Archive TitlesTravel show
Weston Williamson's four new stations for the Docklands Light Railway make a point of engaging with their surroundings - as well as London City Airport.
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Archive TitlesSpeed reads
Ends, Middles, Beginnings: Edward Cullinan ArchitectsBy Jonathan Hale Black Dog Publishing, £29.95Edward Cullinan Architects is not known for courting publicity or being a follower of fashion. Its designs have tended to roll with rather than against the tide of public opinion and the practice has a reputation for pragmatic, principled ...
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Archive TitlesThe outsiders
In 1936 the landscape architect Geoffrey Jellicoe complained that ‘the modern architect will see the house as a white bird descended from the sky and parked upon the green fields'.
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In my opinion
Twenty years ago, when I was doing the Billingsgate market conversion to a financial trading building, the faint aroma of 100 years of frozen prawns defrosting in the brick-vaulted basements still hung around as I took one of the Stateside chiefs of Citibank for a tour.
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Archive TitlesWhite noise
Many architects would love to get their hands on a car design studio, and many would over-egg it. Moxon's restraint makes its white machine all the more powerful.
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Archive TitlesNeighbourhood watch
Privacy is at a premium in Peter Barber's reworking of the terrace. Passers-by can gaze in, and residents are positively encouraged to peer out. Photographs: Morley von Sternberg
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Archive TitlesPoetry in motion
Ken Livingstone's London offices will soon be alight with some of the best Nobel-prize winning poetry of the past 100 years.
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Archive TitlesMods who still rock
The V&A is hoping to teach British architects a lesson in modernism. At the heart of its new show, Modernism: Designing A New World 1914-1939, is a call to remember the principles behind the clean white boxes and ‘less is more'.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Lapland
I'm still getting over the fact that I've probably pumped a tonne and a half of carbon into the atmosphere just getting over here, doing no good to the already reduced snowfall statistics for northern Finland, but a very swift skinnydip into the Arctic waters of the Gulf of Bothnia ...
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Archive TitlesFlush with ideas
London's Southwark council has launched an ideas competition for two key urban sites, now inhabited by dull public toilets.
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Faking it
For years designers have been busily designing daylight out of buildings. Now, they've realised this wasn't such a bright idea and are thinking up some clever ways of getting it back in - even if it's not always strictly natural light.