All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 5
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Archive TitlesHome service
Chipperfield’s has built very little in Britain, a situation it attributes to an unjustified reputation for being ‘difficult’. UK clients of the practice seem to agree the description is unfair.
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Archive TitlesGalvanising gets glamorous
Winner of this year’s Galvanizers Association Galvanising in Architecture award was announced this month as Walter Menteth Architects’ Consort Housing in Peckham, south London.
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Archive TitlesLetter from...Castleford
Renato Benedetti reflects on what he learnt from working at Chipperfield’s.
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Archive TitlesEcotowns: quality not quantity
Criticisms of the proposals to build up to 10 ‘ecotowns’ in England range from the eminently reasonable to the obviously nimby.
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Archive TitlesEco-heretics unite
Hats off to anyone who challenges the eco-fundamentalists, but don’t make sustainability a dirty word
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Archive TitlesSeriously cool
Five volumes break up David Chipperfield Architects’ 8000m2 extension to the Anchorage Museum in Alaska.
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Archive TitlesDavid Chipperfield
David Chipperfield is perhaps our best-kept architectural secret. When you look at the body of work he has produced since the mid-1980s, it is remarkable that he is not better appreciated in Britain. Being feted by one’s own profession, winning the Stirling Prize as he did last year, is not ...
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Archive TitlesWhat is a cast iron facade?
On London’s King’s Cross railway lands, it will be a series of patterned columns cloaking a rather special office building.
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Archive TitlesConstructed in Britain
An exhibition of abstract and constructivist art, architecture and design starts in communist Russia but triumphs in its collection of British art
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw is president of the Royal Academy, which has signed up David Chipperfield to design its expansion into the Victorian Pennethorne building on Burlington Gardens. Hugh Pearman asked what swung it for him.
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Archive TitlesBristol battle lines
I have been lying low about Bristol Harbourside but must correct some false impressions from the article ‘What’s bred in the bone’ in last month’s issue on waterfront architecture.
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Archive TitlesBare essentials
Conservation architect Julian Harrap’s approach to the Neues Museum had the local team puzzled. He wanted them to use their formidable restoration skills, but keep the scars visible.
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Archive TitlesZoom in zoom out by ‘Avatar’
Admit it – you’ve all Googled your own name. I know I have. But what about the subject of this month’s issue, David Chipperfield?
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Get angry with mediocrity
I loved Sam Jacob’s demolition derby critique of the architectural scene (RIBAJ May 08). His summaries of Alsop and Zaha were worth the print run alone.
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Estuary airport options
John Wheatley’s letter (RIBAJ April 08) advocating the Thames Estuary Airport Company’s (TEACL) proposal for a new airport in the Thames Estuary, called Marinair, has much to commend it in principle; but in practice there appears to be a number of virtually insuperable obstacles.
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Archive TitlesA cut above
The scale of rebuilding in late Victorian Britain spawned numerous bodies devoted to the preservation of historic structures, chief of which was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
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Bursaries 08
It’s becoming more common for better-off practices to offer bursaries for research or travel – Foster and Rafael Viñoly are among them.
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Walking on water
It doesn’t take a miracle to build on water, but the logistics of amphibious housing design can make any architect long for dry land.