All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 55
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Don’t repeat the 60s
There is a bizarre notion that the resources taken to decant, demolish, remove, rebuild and restock streets of housing will be more energy efficient and ‘sustainable’ than those needed to renovate and improve existing stock (RIBAJ, May 05, page 60).
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25,000 spotlights
The first match in Herzog & de Meuron’s new Allianz Stadium in Munich, between home team TSV 1860 and 1.FC Nuremburg last month, saw the debut of its dramatic facade when 25,000 spotlights set into 1056 rhomboid ETFE cushions showed the TSV colours.
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Archive TitlesUp sticks and stay
Arup’s community resource centre in the deprived neighbourhood of West Ham and Plaistow can be dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere using the same component parts. But it has proved such a success, it is unlikely to be going anywhere.
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Archive TitlesSpeed reads
David Adjaye Houses Edited by Peter AllisonThames & Hudson, £29.95David Adjaye has covered a lot of ground very quickly; houses, a library, interiors – even a garden hut. It’s an impressive record for someone who, as his admirers never tire of pointing out, is not even 40. But Adjaye stands ...
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Archive TitlesSpit and polish
With its 314 glass winter gardens, the Brunswick Centre is a surprising but worthy winner of the Activ in Architecture competition.
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Archive TitlesMaking a splash
Kennedy Fitzgerald’s Falls Leisure Centre is a brave and deliberate break with Belfast’s seige mentality architecture.
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Who is Qingyun Ma?
A product of China’s building boom, that’s who, with a portfolio of projects that add up to almost a million square metres.
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Archive TitlesLiberty print
The recent Forget Me Not exhibition at Bradford’s National Museum of Photography, Film and Television has forced some critics belatedly to recognise that the form and function of photographs can be as important as their pictorial qualities.
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Archive TitlesIt’s spreading
Catherine Croft, who is the director of the Twentieth Century Society, starts this book by describing how as a child in the 1970s she used to go to Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre and run her fingers over the rough texture of the concrete.
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Power House
Pressure is mounting for new buildings to generate at least some of their own energy. Could mini combined heat and power systems be the answer?
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Go with the flow
‘Brisbane Must Burn’ is one of the more bizarre contributions to this year’s International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, curated by West 8 landscape architect Adriaan Geuze.
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Archive TitlesEmissions impossible?
The only hope we have of meeting the government’s domestic carbon emissions target is if we take tough decisions now on both new-build and existing housing stock, says a new report. But some of those decisions are proving too much for conservationists.
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No prizes for school design
The setiments in last month’s editorial about school design and procurement reflect some of the conclusions of the national panel of judges for the Civic Trust Awards, which I chaired this year.
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Archive TitlesDown the depot
Ash Sakula has turned an old bus depot in Leicester into 50 quirky studios for creative tenants
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Demolition isn’t wholesale
Adam Wilkinson’s article on the so-called indiscriminate wish to demolish pre-1919 housing in Pathfinder Areas (‘Fight them on the terraces’, RIBAJ April 05) rather misses the point.
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Archive TitlesMancunian candidate
Stephenson Bell has introduced a striking but respectful newcomer among the historic buildings of canalside Manchester.
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Camp Cupcake rules
When Martha Stewart freed from her electronically maintained virtual prison, she may find herself bounded by a world bearing an uncanny resemblance to the one she has left.
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Designs in the slop bin
Your leader last month calling for a Jamie Oliver-style campaign against PFI schools did not point out the most serious schools design issue for the profession.
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Going for best in class
Amanda Baillieu’s editorial in the April issue of RIBA Journal made me think about twizzlers, turkeys and school design in a wider context.
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Archive TitlesPerformance artists
A knitted silk cap from Spain made in the 18th century seems out of place in an exhibition entitled ‘Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance’. However, its technical structure speaks volumes and has inspired a new direction in the development of materials and their application.