All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 59
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Hampshire County Council Architects’ Alton library started as a black box and finished up as a barn, but its readers love the ending.
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Archive TitlesUtility players
It is easy to quibble with encyclopaedia: why this entry and not that?
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Archive TitlesWhat is Plastik?
If you were properly educated – made to do Greek and Latin at school, that is – you would know the word plastik is not a rock band (although there is one of that name) or a less sleazy kind of rubberware (it’s that too) but comes from the Greek ...
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Mercy seat
The Salvation Army’s new public face is modern, transparent, evangelical and austerely beautiful.
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Archive TitlesRecycling initiative
Should these buildings be saved and if so what would you do with them?
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Archive TitlesIt is hard to see it now,
but Anthony Caro began his career drawing and painting figures under the tutelage of Henry Moore.
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Archive TitlesSheer genius
Advances in materials technology and software are enabling designers to finally break free of the glass box that has constrained them for centuries.
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Archive TitlesGreat escapes
The parties are over and January stretches ahead. If jumping on a plane isn’t an option, escape into the pages of RIBAJ’s new year reading round-up.
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Election issues
The manifesto for architecture, to be launched at Portcullis House in March, will not to be a whinge but it will pack a punch, promises the RIBA’s head of policy Steven Harding.
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Archive TitlesModel citizens
In the future applying for planning could mean architects uploading their designs into an online 3D model of the city so that citizens can ‘visit’ the scheme and have their say.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: John Sorrell
Forget the past, Cabe is in great shape, says its new chairman John Sorrell.
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Archive TitlesKettle’s boiling
Avery Associates is designing a mixed use development for the west Bengal city of Calcutta (Kolkata).
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Less is more is back
The strict geometry and discreet virtuosity of Yoshio Taniguchi’s extension to New York’s Museum of Modern Art concentrates all the attention where it should be.
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Team work
Although delighted with Rob Howard’s compliment (‘Parliament’s heroes’, Letters, RIBAJ November 04), we must point out that the team at RMJM working on the new Scottish Parliament was an integral part of EMBT/RMJM, and not simply the ‘executive team’. There are no elements in the building that are not the ...
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Archive TitlesWhat is a Pasticcio?
It’s Italian for mess – and the name Sir John Soane (left) gave to the column dominating the courtyard of his museum/ house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
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Archive TitlesParting shot
Downstairs champagne flows at the V&A Architecture Gallery opening; upstairs the RIBA drawings collection has finally found a fitting home.
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Memorial shambles
I have just read with interest your interview with the Gustafson Porter team (RIBAJ November 04, page 16).It seems they have convinced themselves that all of the faults exposed since the opening of the Diana Memorial in Hyde Park have nothing to do with their design. I beg to differ.Gustafson ...
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Archive TitlesNo truck with lorries
Prefabrication holds great promise for the construction industry, but modules still have to fit on the back of a lorry. Now architects and modular construction companies are pushing at the constraints this imposes.
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Getting heated
I was interested to read the recent article on double-skin facades (RIBAJ November 2004, page 66). I was, however, concerned at the lack of acknowledgement of the seriousness of the post-occupancy reports of overheating. It was alarming to read that the cause was seen as a ‘home- grown problem’ ...
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Fancy yourself as the next Seifert or SOM,
Fancy yourself as the next Seifert or SOM, but don’t think you stand a chance of being noticed among the commercial heavyweights? It’s a tough market to get into right now. But Piper the model makers and the Architecture Foundation are looking for fresh talent to challenge conventions in office ...