All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 75
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Archive TitlesAlien life forms are replicating
Spot the difference? For anyone unable to make it to Graz in Austria to see Peter Cook's new Kunsthaus (see Parting Shot, page 102), a spookily similar – albeit smaller – structure goes on show this month in north London.Artist Oliver Barratt, creator of 40 ways in, says the similarity ...
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Archive TitlesRetail
Online commerce has not killed traditional retail spaces but it is changing what we want from them. The challenge for architects is to understand how shopping is evolving
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Archive TitlesPlaying rough
Skateboarders just want to have fun, but they don't mix well with other users of the streetscape. Good design can shepherd them in the right direction.
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The office
Using terms like modular building and prefabrication instantly puts you in the camp of 'innovative' practitioner these days, despite the fact that there's nothing new about them.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Slovakia
This is not your average building site – something we are glad of at the end of the day as we leave our building at the bottom of this long narrow strip of rural Slovakia.
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Who is Lacaton & Vassal?
A French pair we could soon be hearing a great deal more about, that's who.
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Archive TitlesFlooring
Continuing our series Architects' Choice, we asked three architects to tell us about flooring they have specified on recent projects. Their answers show how extraordinarily diverse and inventive a floor surface can be.
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Archive TitlesGulliver's fall
The future takes a step nearer with pop-up family homes, smoking and skycrapers get banned, bad language doesn't
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Archive TitlesDeconstructing Detroit
American architect/artist Kyong Park is erecting a small corner of Detroit in Sheffield.
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Speakers' corner
Architecture can no longer accommodate the numbers of people involved in political discourse. But as we seek out new forums, the very nature of democracy is changing.
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Archive TitlesCollect
Continuing his series on iconic materials, we consider designers who choose to work with recycled plastic – or almond shells.
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Archive TitlesBright ideas
A round-up of the latest lighting products that put others in the shade – more at www.ribajournal.com/enquiries
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Charge of the light brigade
Lighting designers are on the warpath. Their official body has launched a code that will make workplace lighting brighter than anyone wants and drastically increase energy consumption. The question on everybody's lips is, why?