All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 6
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Archive TitlesWorking upstream
Two years ago, the RIBA Constructive Change group published its Strategic Industry Study aiming to understand the future of the architectural profession in all its diversity, so as to suggest where it may be best positioned.
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Archive TitlesSweet Thames run softly…
Six sound installations along the Thames will celebrate the capital’s waterways and act as gateways to London Festival of Architecture events.
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Take me to the river
London’s biggest regeneration zone, the Lower Lea Valley, stretches from a Thamesside lighthouse to Waltham Forest, via the Olympic site. Stitching it together will be a 26-mile riverside park.
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Ones to watch
On a recent visit to Switzerland, I saw an extraordinary exhibition in downtown Zurich about the work of a firm named Shagal Iodaa (Interdisciplinary Office for Design, Architecture and Art).
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Old-fashioned virtues
Running through your issue on British architecture (May 2008) was a theme of complex shapes, owing much to the new-found ability of computers to handle difficult equations, translating the architect’s imagination into cutting instructions.
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Remembering Maurice
I was saddened to read of the death of Maurice McCarthy in the May issue of the RIBA Journal. Maurice was a colleague of mine throughout the 1980s and early 1990s at the London Borough of Hillingdon.
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To the Lighthouse
RIBAJ editor Hugh Pearman is to curate the first of a new series of exhibitions and monographs on emerging architects.
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Archive TitlesWhat is Southwark Lido?
A place to plunge into architectural debate, that’s what. An overscaled paddling pool and a bathing deck conjured up on a vacant site on Union Street, London SE1, where bathers can luxuriate in a mist of warm spray (with music and light), and quench their thirst at the bar.
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Archive TitlesLetter from... Prescott Lock
Alan Gerrett, director of UK civil engineer Volker Stevin, describes the firm’s £20m commission to bring the Bow Back Rivers in east London’s Lea Valley back on stream.
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Archive TitlesIt's a shore thing
Terry Farrell, Edinburgh’s design champion, believes the city’s waterfront could provide it with a third identity to rival the Old Town and New Town. But that will require thinking beyond the red line of individually owned sites.
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Going Rambo
Let’s hope the expanded London Architecture Festival doesn’t fall prey to the flabby sequel syndrome.
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Low fees with us still
We have just lost another fee tender and I thought your readers might like to know that this sort of thing is still going on.
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Im not starry-eyed either
I have just read Zoe Berman’s piece ‘No stars in our eyes’ (RIBAJ May 08) on your website and couldn’t have put it better myself.
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Or eco unreality?
As someone recently retired from the mainstream of architectural practice, I have, at last, had time to cast a critical eye over the evidence adduced by eco warriors to indicate mankind’s responsibility for global warming.
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Archive TitlesEastside
The canals that once made Warwick Bar a bustling junction are set to revive the fortunes of this rundown relic of Birmingham’s more prosperous past.
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Archive TitlesFluid dynamics
Why are opera and water so closely associated? Here’s the new Oslo Opera house by Snøhetta, warping itself towards the waterline.
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Archive TitlesDon’t look now
Santiago Calatrava’s long-awaited bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice is due to be opened on 21 June by the mayor, philosopher Massimo Cacciari.
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Joy of intelligent debate
Congratulations on the May issue of RIBAJ. What a joy to have this sort of discussion, and so refreshing to have some intelligent and intelligible critique on the status of architectural design in the UK. I hope it stimulates a long and useful debate.
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Oozing creativity
Fantastic production… at last an RIBAJ I can feel comfortable about people outside the UK seeing… the May issue is a huge leap forward from the muted alternatives that we saw previously.