All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 47
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Archive TitlesNo place like home
Graham Bizley has turned a 60m2 end-of-terrace site into a four-storey hotbed of experimentation in space making, detailing and thrift – as any young architect would if given the chance to build his own home. Photographs: Kilian O’Sullivan
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Archive TitlesThe green light
Ecological Architecture: a Critical HistoryJames SteeleThames and Hudson£28This is a serious book on ecology, but not one of those printed on recycled paper. Beautifully designed and produced, it has a celebratory tone, rather than the accusatory one of the ‘deep’ ecologists. The time has come, author James Steele says, for ...
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Archive TitlesLet the grass grow
Lack of home-grown guidance is hindering wider adoption of green roofs because investors are nervous about the technique. Ciria is about to step into the breach.
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In my opinion: Marco Goldschmied
January 9, 2013. The long-awaited inquiry by Lord Farrell of Thamesgateway into Olympic procurement has identified the growth of a new virus, Cads (compulsive architectural delusion syndrome), which started breeding in the late 1980s in the fertile culture of the systematic dismantling and privatisation of public bodies.
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Flood warning
The reference to Hurricane Katrina in your leader (RIBAJ Nov 05) brought to mind the Environment Agency’s website regarding the growing risk of a major surge in the Thames.
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Archive TitlesVenice deception
The secret’s out – the 2006 British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is inspired by the work of Colonel Turner’s covert operations department.
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Please help student charity
The RIBA Education Trust Funds Committee administers the Student Hardship Fund which helps architectural students in difficulty.
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Everything must change
This year architects are going to have to get to grips with some far-reaching, hotly debated revisions to the Building Regulations. Here’s what the changes could mean for you.
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Brassed off with silver
The inhabitants of the RIBA headquarters seem to have developed a taste for bombast and exotica, the absurd and the hypocritical.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Barcelona
Barcelona has changed a lot in the 15 years since I drew the short straw to report on the annual Sags (Salaried Architects Group) tour.
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Archive TitlesWhat is cinematic architecture?
It’s enough to make you drop your popcorn. If, as Jean-Luc Godard claims, film is truth at 48 frames per second, the eternal values of architecture as we know it are about to end up on the cutting room floor.
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Archive TitlesAlmost invisible...
...as it reflects the tree trunks, the design for this little ticket booth by Make architects has just received planning permission.
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Archive TitlesSpeed reads
Landmarks of Britain – The Five Hundred Places That Made Our History By Clive Aslet Hodder and Stoughton. £30Were it not such a tombstone of a volume, the perfect place for this vivid compilation of ‘places where things happened’ would be the glove compartment of the car. For any rural ...
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In my opinion
In the mid-19th century a microscopic yellow insect started appearing on the roots of vines as far apart as Northampton and the lower Rhine Valley.
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Archive TitlesWho is Zbigniew Oksiuta?
A Polish-born architect whois weirder than a robot alien with teeth, that’s who.
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Archive TitlesA little light relief
Few Christmas lights manage to be as stylish and simple as this installation by BDP for Walthamstow town centre.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Nottingham
For too long Nottingham basked complacently in its past reputation as Queen of the Midlands. Now there are stirrings of change.
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Archive TitlesIt’s a Wrap
Just thinking about specifying recyclable products is enough to make most architects groan. Where are you going to find them and how can you tell if they’re any good? The Waste Resources Action Programme could be just what you’re looking for.