All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 61
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Fraser factors
As one of those criticised by Lord Fraser, I read with interest your leader on his report into the new Scottish Parliament and your reference to the form of contract.
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Archive TitlesDouble standard
Double-skin facades have a role in refurbishment as well as new-build, improving thermal and acoustic performance and giving old buildings a new lease of life.
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The Diana legacy
Great landscape works need serious maintenance money, say Kathryn Gustafson and Neil Porter, creators of the Princess Diana Memorial, and its imminent closure has strengthened their argument.
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Archive TitlesCreams & crackers
As a metaphor for the modern city, a vast model made from France’s finest cakes and biscuits, which one is encouraged to eat, implies a city’s physical limits are a moveable feast.
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It's a corker
O’Donnell + Tuomey’s gallery for University College Cork is simply beautiful. But simple it isn’t.
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Prince Charles’s sources
Michael Manser (RIBAJ August 04) accuses me of exaggerating and distorting the role that I played in drafting Prince Charles’s Hampton Court speech.
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Archive TitlesCase history
Two things define public perception of Zaha Hadid: her own image and her paintings, now morphed into constructivist-style renderings and aped by a thousand students.
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Scots caricature
To Clare Wright, then, the tricky task of writing a little review of the new Parliament building for those famously touchy Scots (RIBAJ October 04, pages 26-36).
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Charles Hind
Curator of drawings Charles Hind is overseeing the RIBA collections’ move to a new home at the V&A, which opens on 16 November.
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Archive TitlesBlow up
Arup’s computers went into meltdown while performing calculations needed for the cladding of Peddle Thorp and Walker’s National Swimming Centre for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Too rich for our blood
The clever photograph on p32-33 of your review of the Scottish Parliament, gives a glimpse of the unused Royal High School (1829 Thomas Hamilton) on Calton Hill in Edinburgh above the new Parliament building.
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Archive TitlesNot big, but very clever
The first is an ethereal space-age substance, the second a few wires wrapped around a tube.
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Archive TitlesGold award for Hopkins
Hopkins Architects’ Norwich Cathedral Visitors’ centre (RIBAJ June 2004) has won the prestigious Gold Award in the Wood Awards, which were presented this week at the Carpenters’ Hall in London.
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Wrapped attention
Ash Sakula’s low-cost housing for the Peabody Trust in east London makes a startling addition to a dreary area. But the real innovation lies inside.
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Archive TitlesArchitects to the rescue
Sauerbruch Hutton have endowed Berlin with an unusually joyful – and tranquil – fire and police station.
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Apotheosis now
Ben Bolgar’s invocation of ‘nemesis’ in his review of The Architectural Pattern Book (RIBAJ October 04, page 20) appears contrary to the sense of his piece – but surely he cannot have meant apotheosis?
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Reasonable answer
Any questioning of the access provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act is likely to attract criticism (unlike any questioning of the fire safety provisions, particularly the absence of any provisions to get disabled people out of a building if a fire should occur), but I will once again take the ...
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Archive TitlesSlinte!
Three years late and catastrophically over budget, the new Scottish Parliament may well have driven many to drink. Quite right, too – it deserves to be celebrated.
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Archive TitlesUnderground resistance
As any mole will tell you, when building underground, there are three problems: waterproofing, light and preventing heavy vehicles falling on top of you. That calls for a high performance, multi-functional roof.
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Archive TitlesTwo into one
Henchion-Reuter Architects has responded to Dublin council’s call for a building that could serve both as a community facility and as a centre for the local drugs team with characteristic pragmatism, confidence and wit. By Robert Payne.