All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 66
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Archive TitlesAntarchitecture
The British Antarctic Survey needs a replacement for its Halley Research Station. RIBAJ explains the brief and asks one of the scientists for her wish-list.
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Start
Office fit-outs may not be the glamorous end of the profession, yet there’s still potential to make a statement.
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Archive TitlesThe sea, the sea
O'Donnell + Tuomey's Howth House is so bent on getting the best sea views from every room that it seems almost negligent about how it might itself be seen.
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Speed up the process
Your editorial on RIBA competitions was published ahead of the paper presented to the Council in Manchester, in May. Clare Wright is a persuasive advocate for competitions and her paper was well received.
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Quiet please
From 1 July, builders of new, attached homes will have another way of satisfying the Part E requirement to prove inhabitants won't suffer from noisy neighbours.
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Archive TitlesPerform
If you don’t want the facilities manager tramping all over your design, make user needs a priority says Paul Scrivener, design director of MCM Architecture and Interiors.
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Archive TitlesMetamorphosis
This animated facade, part of Sheppard Robson's refurbishment of Arup's offices in Fitzrovia, London, makes an ideal corporate statement for a company that eschews corporate statements.
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Leader
Towering Inferno, the 70s movie in which Paul Newman builds a stupidly high skyscraper, did not stop towers being built or even start a debate; that only happened after September 11.
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Archive TitlesJoined up thinking
The two halves of Foster and Partners' g310m Millau Viaduct in the South of France were due to meet as RIBA J went to press.
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Archive TitlesIt's a jungle up there
A flourishing green roof is good for the environment in more ways than one. As well as lowering a building's energy needs, it can become a haven for local flora and fauna.
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Hidden treasure
Hopkins Architects' replacement for the Cakehouse cafe in St James's Park harmonises with Nash's landscaping and promises a great deal more than tea and sandwiches.
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Skylon's unsung hero
With reference to Patrick Horsbrugh's letter (RIBA J April 2004), may I add my view that Felix Samuely's contribution to the success of the Skylon in 1951 has been seriously overlooked.
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Hands off Iraqi flag
Friends in Baghdad tell me an RIBA member was behind the new Iraqi flag that inflamed such negative views across Iraq.
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Archive TitlesFinishing touches
The latest coatings and finishes offer specifiers lots of scope for bespoke designs – for more information visit www.ribajournal.com/enquiries
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Archive TitlesKeep the faith
Known for landmark projects, Hopkins Architects hasn't lost its touch for the small and beautifully crafted. Its refectory at Norwich Cathedral fits perfectly into a medieval context, while on page 30, the firm makes a graceful bow to Nash in St James's Park.
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Archive TitlesExplore the great outdoors
Once seen merely as residual space to be decorated, the public realm is now regarded as a vital part of any development – and a great break for architects.
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Dropping the pilot
I was interested to read of AHMM's dilemma in fighting to remain architect for its health centre project in Kentish Town (RIBA J May 2004).
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The discomfort zone
Architecture is a much more subtle torture tool than electric shocks and beatings and just as effective. Best of all, it leaves no physical marks on the detainees.
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Archive TitlesThose were the days…
Who influenced architecture more in the 1960s: the Smithsons or artist Richard Hamilton?