All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 78
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Material world
I am glad that Cany Ash is so pleased with her grp panel, but it looks suspiciously like a section of 1970s Fylon roofing without the characteristic UV damage ('Dare to be different', July, pages 24-26).In the past 15 years this modest practice has used panel-beaten aluminium, foam-filled structural ...
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Archive TitlesLittle wonders
Nanotechnology is moving beyond science fiction into construction products and now it's getting really interesting.
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Archive TitlesUniversal language
In Britain, architecture plb has a reputation for well thought out education buildings. How well would its ideas translate into Catalan?
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Archive TitlesLetter from Havana
It 's very strange and highly improbable to find myself half naked on a Cuban beach with 20 other half-naked architects from around the world, drinking mojitos (rum, lime, sugar, fresh mint, water) and staring out to a shimmering tropical sea.
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Hardly sustainable
'Sustainability is everything', states James Lewis in his letter (June, page 92). Everything? More like a buzz-word for nothing.
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Archive TitlesGulliver's summer
Kurokawa designs a ferris wheel, a slum theme park opens, edifices crumble, and a gutter is guaranteed until doomsday.
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Running to standstill - at a glance
In-house architects and principals in partnership based in London are doing well, according to the RIBA's annual employment and earnings survey. But for others it's a question of working longer hours just to keep pace with inflation.
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Archive TitlesFun's over
Pleasure fairs emerged from pagan and religious festivals and medieval trading fairs.
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Getting excited
Why is it that I have not been excited about a published project since the initial stages of the decon movement?
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Election fever
It is not good enough simply to list those elected in the RIBA Council ballot (Briefing, July, page XIII).
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Archive TitlesTome capsule
Basil Spence's iconic Swiss Cottage Library opened to acclaim in 1964. Outside, a thorough cleaning has restored the building's powerful black and white geometric forms while inside John McAslan's sensitive refurbishment has equipped it for the electronic age.
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The great British humour
Regarding your article on innovative materials ('Dare to be different', July, pages 24-26), it is strange to still see the insular attitudes of British architects prevailing.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter - Dominique Perrault
Dominique Perrault's giant marble and glass cocoon has won the international competition to extend St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre.
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Archive TitlesWho is Frédéric Borel?
The architect of this Gehry-esque crèche in Paris, that's who. Built for the Marie de Paris in the capital's 10th arrondissement, Borel describes the day nursery as 'an accumulation of pure forms'.
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Hadid's best?
Congratulations on a fascinating journal; and thank you for Fred Bernstein's piece 'Turning a corner' (June, pages 28-36).
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Archive TitlesArtist in residence
Plenty of architects see themselves as artists but few have tried to build paintings – until now.
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Archive TitlesThe rough with the smooth
Honesty or artifice? Architects have been arguing about materials and the way they should be exploited since ancient times. We put the debate in an historical perspective.
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Archive TitlesPavilioned in splendour
Oscar Niemeyer's Serpentine Pavilion in London's Kensington Gardens has already been sold, according to the buzz at the opening party.