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All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 7
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Archive TitlesSweet clarity
It’s worth wading through some recalcitrant text for the moments of revelation in Aldo van Eyck’s essays.
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Water cities
When the inland waterways were nationalised in the 1940s, the government at first didn’t realise it had done so.
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Eco-reality bursts through
All fiscal economics are delusions papered over ecological realities. Money’s decorative art, printed or forged. It’s neither food nor air and it makes poor shelter or clothes.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Mark Ryder is chief executive of Isis, the regeneration partnership set up by the British Waterways Board. He explains his sustainable development strategy to Eleanor Young
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What’s bred in the bone
Look closely at Edward Cullinan Architects’ housing at Bristol Harbourside, and you might just detect a hint of Lasdun, as mentored by Lubetkin, who worked for Jean Ginsburgh…
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Archive TitlesZoom in zoom out by ‘Avatar’
Did you know that the British Waterways Board (BWB) is the third largest owner of listed structures in the country?
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Archive TitlesRound of applause
Recladding of Birmingham’s landmark Rotunda for its conversion to apartments has seen the original 1960s’ window strategy finally realised.
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Archive TitlesGracing the Aire
The 130m curve of the new bridge in Castleford, Yorkshire keeps it close to the River Aire and the rush of the weir just upstream.
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Archive TitlesThe accidental sculptor
In July 1949, the Architectural Review published a special issue devoted to the future of Britain’s canal system which it feared was threatened by the previous year’s nationalisation.
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Archive TitlesTimber!
The Wood Awards, now in their fifth year, boast an impressive roll-call of previous winners including Feilden Clegg Bradley, Gareth Hoskins and Simon Conder.
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Archive TitlesWhich side are you on?
Today’s buildings have all the hallmarks of being designed by a profession happier to serve its paymasters than the environment or the public
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Tales from the sandpit
This year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Lego brick and we invite readers of the RIBA Journal to help us.
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Archive TitlesDoing the rounds
Birmingham’s landmark 18-storey Rotunda was built in 1965 as offices, but its architect James Roberts lived on the top floor.
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Archive TitlesSociety rediscovered
It has taken 20 years for British architecture to re-engage with society and context. We’re getting there.
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Archive TitlesParametric possibilities
Parametric design isn’t just British phenomenon but a global one, says the co-director of the Architectural Association’s Design Research Laboratory.
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Archive TitlesWhatever next?
If there’s one thing the British are good at, it’s waiting. Just as well, as it could be a while before our twin peaks of arts and crafts and high-tech are superseded.
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Archive TitlesResistance movement
All credit to the architectural lords… but what if James Stirling hadn’t died so early? Might he have saved us from the easy-fit, bloodless derivatives of funny shape-ism?
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Archive TitlesLetter from...
Hans van der Heijden, partner of Dutch practice Biq, has been working in the UK for 13 years. He’s still bemused that we spend so much of our time and talent fretting about risk
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Archive TitlesA la mode
There’s always been a link between the clothing of the human body and the sheltering of it, so the Skin and Bones show is not before time.