All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 79
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Archive TitlesRoll your own
The UK's first large scale use of prefabricated rolled steel frames is cutting costs, time and environmental impact at Greenwich Millennium Village.
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The office
School's out this month, which means many parents will be shelling out for tennis lessons and art workshops.
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Archive TitlesLetter from St Petersburg
St Petersburg began its 300th birthday celebrations in the media glare occasioned by Bush, Blair and Putin attending a G8 summit.
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We could be heroes
Portrayals of architects on stage and screen reveal a lot about a society's cultural values. There's Mr Ed, and then there's Palladio in Piazza.
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Archive TitlesGulliver's month
Celebration in Liverpool, suspicious minds in New York; plaudits for Utzon and Hadid; and Prince Edward in a tight spot…
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Archive TitlesGrowing old gracefully
The elderly constitute a rising proportion of the UK population and they need homes designed to adapt with their changing needs
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Archive TitlesThe pigeons, my friend...
Foster and Partners' recasting of Trafalgar Square is unveiled this month in the first phase of the firm's ambitious World Squares for All masterplan.
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Archive TitlesMy favourite things
Rod McAllister, Sheppard Robson Spheral Solar I like the Spheral Solar system, it is like a laminate of photovoltaic rods that will actually be able to wrap around shapes. The fabric comprises tiny silicon spheres sandwiched between two layers of foil and can be bonded to almost any shape surface ...
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Archive TitlesFair share
Architect Trevor Horne and three artist friends not only share workspace and a staircase, but the experience of developing the project themselves
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Education reservations
Your news item 'Student life exposed' on the publication of Tomorrow's Architect (May 2003) gives the false impression that in the past the heads of schools wrote the criteria and the validation documents.
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Archive TitlesShivers down the spine
Opera refers to Price’s artistic compositions of course, but it also hints at a trip to the opera. It is filled with moments of extreme incomprehension and spine-tingling pleasure.
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Archive TitlesDare to be different
Architects prize innovation – except when it comes to materials, it seems. A year after a RIBAJ survey that found most of you are nervous of selecting innovative products, we asked five architects who aren't, to discuss the problems – and pleasures – of being at the cutting edge.
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Mersey culture
You write that Liverpool is one of the poorest areas in the EU (June 2003).
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Archive TitlesCruise control
P&O's cruise passengers are getting a more dignified send-off in Southampton thanks to an imaginative refurbishment by The Manser Practice.
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Archive TitlesReality check
Phase 2 of Greenwich Millennium Village by Proctor and Matthews continues the big, bold idea. How well is it working?
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter - Nick Coombe
Nick Coombe's Minotaur maze, designed with artist Shona Kitchen, has just opened at Kielder Forest in Northumberland.
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The code breakers
CAD is only as good as the information put into it, and on-site problems show that's not good enough. A new production information code attempts to bring much needed discipline to the process.
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England is bland – it's official
The Campaign to Protect Rural England says: 'We are developing nowhere places, where the buildings and shops in one place are identical to those in the next town.'
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Panel beaters
Until now the Thames Gateway east of London, which includes some of the capital's most needy areas, could hardly be described as architecturally ambitious.
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Archive TitlesArtistic tram shelters for City of Culture?
Visitors to Liverpool City of Culture 2008 could be whizzing around between pieces of art – and we don't just mean in the galleries.