All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 57
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Archive TitlesEast End boys
During the 1950s an awakening interest in gritty street photography informed architectural thought.
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Archive TitlesWho is Atelier Kempe Thill?
Winners of Holland’s most prestigious architecture award for young architects, that’s who. The annual Rotterdam Maaskant Prize is given to architects under 35 who have ‘distinguished themselves in the field of architecture or urban design.’
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Archive TitlesMoore’s art is still speaking for itself
At the base of Charles Holden’s Senate House in London is a set of stones ordered for a work by Henry Moore – but there is nothing on them. It is one of Moore’s many aborted collaborations with architects, explored in a new exhibition Henry Moore and the Challenge of ...
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Thinking space
Your leader (RIBAJ Jan 05, p07) started the New Year in a provocative mood.
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He read my mind
Thanks for including Alain de Botton’s piece ‘room for the ordinary’.
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Milan
International heavyweights strutted their ideas for regenerating vast tracts of derelict industrial land in fashion capital Milan
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Process makes places
Alain de Botton’s article (RIBAJ Feb 05) is timely. As your editorial points out we are living through a societal crisis in place-making.
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Modern view of listing
Conservation-phobia (leader, RIBAJ Jan 05) stems from the premise that protection of heritage prevents necessary change.
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Archive TitlesThe latest thriller
Brighton’s new Jubilee Library, one of the first to be built under PFI, doesn’t look like your traditional lending establishment.
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Marco Goldschmied
We all happily snack on environmental sound bites while busily doing business in the man-made worlds of buildings, planes and automobiles. Nowhere do the bites sound louder than in the English-speaking countries. The Kyoto Treaty agreed in 1997 has now come into force, but Australia and the USA have ...
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Desperate urbanists
Future historians will find insight into 20th century architectural typology in the archives of television sitcoms – much more entertaining than plowing through Pevsner.
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Archive TitlesCutty Sark hoists sail once more
Pneumatic beams, Kevlar and twisted laminated glass – Grimshaw’s plans to preserve the Cutty Sark will use ultra-modern techniques and materials.
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Archive TitlesCrowd control
Young London practice Brisac Gonzalez had to supply some urban density – and pull in the punters – with its design for Sweden’s new Museum of World Culture.
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Classicism is the key
I greatly enjoyed Alain de Botton’s article ‘The special and the ordinary’ in RIBA Journal (February 05 page 26).
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Archive TitlesCity counsel
It is clear that we are doomed if we don’t act and act fast on sustainability. But adopted Englishman Herbert Girardet shows how a combination of benign technology, more responsible behaviour and engaged local democracy will allow us to survive in ‘Ecopolis’.
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Archive TitlesInvestor’s chronicle
Financial pressures forced Hawkins\Brown’s Portsmouth University business school into a design and build contract, and it shows. But d&b doesn’t have to mean second best
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Visitor centre was mine
In your article on the Cardiff Millennium Centre (RIBAJ Feb 05, page 44), you write: ‘The WMC [above] is very different from the first building project architect Jonathan Adams designed for the bay, a lightweight white tube-shaped visitors’ centre he sketched out while at Alsop and Lyall.’Jonathan Adams did not ...
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Cardiff renaissance
I enjoyed your critique of the Wales Millennium Centre (RIBAJ Feb 05).
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Archive TitlesBoardroom coup
Lloyd Park Under-5s Centre in east London defies nursery conventions in more ways than one, but what child could resist its cardboard box aesthetics?
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Archive TitlesWhat lies beneath
Dramatic as Hudson Architects’ Cedar House appears, it’s what’s under the skin that counts.