All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 72
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The office
'There are many standard plans of houses and flats, but to imply one or other of them is to lose half the advantage of employing an architect; for it restricts his scope, and makes new and worthwhile developments in house design all the less likely.'
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Archive TitlesWelcome: Refurbishment, London
Rivington Street StudioNearly every member of architect Charles Thomson's extended family seems to have worked on the refurbishment of this large house for a client in Hampstead.
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Idealism is a slog
In architecture, even more than in other professions, there is a clear link between hours spent on a design and quality.
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Archive TitlesHomes
(From RIBA Works December)One of this Christmas's bestsellers is bound to be Simon Jenkins' latest door-stopper, England's Thousand Best Houses.
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Archive TitlesHomes
One of this Christmas's bestsellers is bound to be Simon Jenkins' latest door-stopper, England's Thousand Best Houses.
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Archive TitlesVintage Holl
Steven Holl's intoxicating mix of wonky facades and triple-height voids at a winery project in the sleepy Austrian village of Langenlois has left locals drinking the architect's health.
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Gulliver in space
Tokyo goes underground, Parisians grow up at last, Moscow flattens and Greece cancels the cheese pie and coffee break.
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Good for the heart
Worthy but dull has been the attitude of the architectural elite and architectural press toward healthcare projects for many years.
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People in Glass-Houses
The piece about the Glass-House course in your November issue was sadly very negative (p12).
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Archive TitlesNow is good for FOA
Foreign Office Architects is riding a wave of glory. It has beaten Future Systems, Zaha Hadid and Ushida Findlay to win the BBC's Music Box in White City and has its own show opening at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.
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Archive TitlesSlide: House extension, London
Robert Dye AssociatesCommissions arrive in all sorts of ways, but it is not often architects get the chance to live in a client's house before working on it.
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Archive TitlesSavour: House extension, London
Tim Foster ArchitectsExtensions of ordinary two-storey houses usually involve going up into the roof.
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Jumbo egos
We live in an age of architectural superstars, fostered largely by an omnipresent media obsessed with the cult of personality.
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Archive TitlesHere’s one I made earlier
Rapid prototyping techniques already offer designers the chance to ‘grow’ their own models. Perhaps one day they’ll be able to conjure up the real thing.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Detroit
I arrived here in 1999 with my wife intending to stay for two years.
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Archive TitlesCurate: Picture House, London
Brookes Stacey Randall ArchitectsArt and people have very different needs, but Brookes Stacey Randall Architects (BSR) has shown that with intricate detailing and careful manipulation of light and space, it is just about possible to live in an art gallery.
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Archive TitlesCollect
Gareth Williams charts the use of metal, from furniture decoration to an assault on modernist sensibilities.
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Archive TitlesChristmas preserves
You could read Kathryn Morrison's English Shops and Shopping purely for nostalgia, to summon up Christmas shopping past.