All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 50
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In my opinion
The need for secure shelter is as deep-seated as the need for food and the drive to procreate.
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Practitioners needed
Thanks (I think) for the interview in September’s RIBAJ, but I could not (or should not) have said I was the only practitioner who understood education.
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Archive TitlesNotes in the margin
The myth of regeneration is that you start with one great building and the whole area starts to look up.
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One L of a time
Proposed changes to the Building Regulations for the conservation of fuel and power from April next year will include the refurbishment of buildings. So what are the practical difficulties ahead for roof design?
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It’s an old story
I see that our new president, Jack Pringle, is shocked by architects’ earnings (RIBAJ September 05).
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The Spirit of Span Housing
The Spirit of Span HousingJames StrikeStrike Print£10At a time when the search is on for the £60,000 house, this little book on Span housing, another affordable housing solution that spawned no fewer than 30 housing estates, is a timely read. Between 1948 and 1984, Span sought to bridge the gap ...
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Archive TitlesHistory lessons
Three recent restorations of 1930s buildings have highlighted some of the problems architects face in refurbishing designs of this period.
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Archive TitlesMinerals + fossils
Some of these abstract compositions may look like the computer designs of Neil Spiller but they are more influenced by Alvaar Aalto and Jørn Utzon.
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Archive TitlesFollies
FolliesJeffery W WhitelawShire£6Follies, writes Whitelaw, ‘are very personal. They can betray a mood, an attitude to life and society, and a man’s view of his status’. They are also curiously British, representing the notorious eccentricity and individuality of the landowning classes. If a man – and it is nearly always ...
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Archive TitlesFeeding the docks
Wilkinson Eyre’s National Waterfront Museum Swansea is part of a concerted effort to reinvigorate the city’s dockside. People should flock there.
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Archive TitlesDig the garden
In Britain the years following the Second World War saw an urgent reassessment of modernism and how it could be reshaped to meet the challenges of reconstruction.
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Clearly wrong
In your piece on Zaha Hadid's Copenhagen gallery (RIBAJ September 05) a caption describes the ‘...opaque rooflights’ from which ‘...the light merely soaks into the painted concrete’.
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Rewarding career choices
I enjoyed your article promoting alternative career paths (RIBAJ August 05).
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Archive TitlesLetter from Brighton
Here in Brighton, summer’s over and politicians are replacing the holidaymakers.
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Archive TitlesBox of tricks
Working within the limitations of an end-of-terrace house near Notting Hill, Russell Jones has created a distinctive block of three apartments.
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Blowing up a garden shed
Most architects wouldn’t want artist Cornelia Parker anywhere near their buildings. She is best known for her idea of an exploded view: The Turner Prize-shortlisted results hang in Tate Modern. Now the RIBA is showing her work Subconciousness of a Monument, a beautiful suspension of the dry earth that once ...
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Archive TitlesMaking it big time
Irish stars O’Donnell + Tuomey care very much how they are judged in England. With the Stirling Prize announced this month, will their second appearance on the shortlist be a winner?
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The Big Uneasy
Even something as powerful as hurricane Katrina cannot completely destroy a city like New Orleans. But as the water recedes and rebuilding begins, what can we hope for?
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Archive TitlesBuilding Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion
For more than half of the 20th century, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona pavilion existed only as a memory – and a set of photographs.