All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 74
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Material for all seasons
When Frank Lloyd Wright came across plywood in the 1930s, he said it offered 'a new lead into a fascinating realm of form'.
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Archive TitlesQuick, quick, slow
Wilkinson Eyre’s bridge winks and Foster’s used to wobble, but there’s no sign that Brookes Stacey Randall’s new bridge in Sudbury, Suffolk will do either.
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Presto, presto, Piano
If you thought South Fork was the height of sophistication in Dallas, it is time to update your ideas.
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The office
How important is it for architects to like and be liked by the communities they design for?
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Archive TitlesNHS responds to treatment
One of Britain's biggest property estates, the NHS, is spending billions on renewing and reinventing itself for the 21st century. Opportunities for architects range from mega hospitals to one-stop health shops.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Ottawa
Ottawa is a surprisingly romantic city, characterised in winter by that strange acoustic stillness provided by deep snow and a temperature many degrees below zero.
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Leader
Speaking frankly about the state of our minds, about being depressed or feeling guilty, is fashionable.
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Practice at home
Fed up with renting uninspiring officespace, Allies and Morrison built its own.
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Archive TitlesHistory in the remaking
A collaborative approach to historic buildings is increasingly seen as the best way to create exciting architecture while easing controversial schemes through the consent process.
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Archive TitlesGulliver at large
Urbanism threatens diet industry, snow forecast in Dubai, Hitler welcomes us to his lovely home and Correa tinkers with Corb.
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Archive TitlesWho was Gottfried Semper?
If you don't know the answer, this is the moment to brush up on your history. This month marks the bicentenary of Germany's greatest architect/theoretician.
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Archive TitlesFast forward
Rather than disguise the elevated railway running through the IIT's Chicago campus, Rem Koolhaas' design made a feature of it. But at what cost to the original Mies van der Rohe buildings?
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Archive TitlesPure Disney
At the heart of Gehry's fantastic designs is an equally fantastic software package. After spending years polishing its architectural capabilities, the Gehry team decided it was time to spread the word
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Archive TitlesMe++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City
With City of Bits and e-topia, MIT's Bill Mitchell, RIBAJ columnist, first offered himself as a guide to the treacherous waters between traditional architecture and the wonders of digitisation.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Lisa Jardine
Historian Lisa Jardine, author of a new book on Wren, is lecturing at the AA this month.
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Archive TitlesThe new black
Mole Architects' Black House stands out against its neighbouring brick boxes and creates a new vernacular for the Fens.
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Changing atriums
Little did Giangiorgio Trissino know when he transformed style-deficient Andrea de Pietro into fab maestro Andrea Palladio that he was inventing the makeover programme.