All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 53
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Archive TitlesIts all right for some...
Architectural salaries effectively fell in the past year, according to the RIBA’s annual employment and earnings survey. Yet principals are rewarding themselves handsomely, and older architects are suddenly finding their experience in demand.
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Walk this way
‘Jean Nouvel’s drawings show people as ghosts,’ says Xavier Löwenthal, one of four cartoonists charged with bringing Nouvel’s buildings to life for a major exhibition at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark.
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Archive TitlesRide the wave
Guy Greenfield’s seaside apartments bring a much-needed touch of class to Westward Ho! in Devon. And he did it all himself.
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Archive TitlesSpeed reads
Shadow CitiesBy Robert NeuwirthRoutledge, £17.99While the government agonises over sustainable communities in the Thames Gateway, squatters in the developing world are building themselves homes plastic sheet by plastic sheet. In the four megacities where Neuwirth lived out his research in the shantytowns – Istanbul, Mumbai, Nairobi, Rio – up ...
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In my opinion
The profession will be designing a lot of PFI buildings in the next few years. Will they be beautiful people or Frankenstein monsters? If buildings were people, do PFI labs deliver healthy ones? Can they be let loose in our cities?
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What is NLA?
It’s a new kind of architecture centre, one for the punters rather than the profession, which shows and tells them about the mega developments in store for the capital, that’s what.
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Archive TitlesMuseum piece
A few years ago Herzog & de Meuron produced a book called Natural History.
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Archive TitlesYour place or mine?
Squabbles about style obscure an underlying consensus on what makes good urbanism. So let’s develop a system that allows it to happen.
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Archive TitlesOn your marks…
If London does find itself hosting the 2012 Olympics, it should talk to the winners of this year’s Corus Undergraduate Architect Awards about their amazing scheme to turn the whole city into an interactive venue for watching the athletes.
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Archive TitlesSeen and not heard
Noisy classrooms adversely affect children’s learning and the prevalence of open-plan schools doesn’t help. But there are ways of improving the acoustics.
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The tree that never dies
The inexorable march of cellphone towers across the American landscape is the latest episode in a long history of encounters between technology and wilderness.
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Archive TitlesCrouching tiger
The Serpentine Gallery’s annual summer pavilion is always an architectural event and this year it’s a technological one as well. Every beam is unique, every piece of timber has a different chamfer and each of its 400 cladding panels is bespoke.
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Archive TitlesComfort zone
Page\Park’s forceful Maggie’s Centre in Inverness works with its striking landscaping to welcome and empower the cancer sufferers who use it.
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Archive TitlesTrue colours
It is hard now to recall the time when modernism was regarded as an all-embracing concept with an infinite future.
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Brief encounter Brett Steele
Long-time Architectural Association staffer Brett Steele has just been elected chairman.
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Out of the toy box
Douglas Coupland defined the 1990s in his tale of disaffection Generation X (1991), with its 20-somethings too bored to aspire to anything other than ‘McJobs’.
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Archive TitlesBabes in the wood
John McAslan + Partners’ Lavender Nursery is not only a safe haven for toddlers, its Lego-like style of construction means it could also be adapted for use on the practice’s other projects.
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RIBA Award winners
Seventy-one projects in the UK and Europe were honoured in this year’s RIBA Awards, while seven schemes, from Brazil to Japan, were recognised in the worldwide category.
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Archive TitlesArt of the possible
The generous spaces of Feilden Clegg Bradley’s gallery at Yorkshire Sculpture Park make an artist’s heart leap at the thought of what could be done there.