All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 81
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London furniture fair
The London furniture fair previews the pieces you'll be specifying next year, plus a few pure objects of desire. We bring you the highlights.
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New York furniture fair
The New York furniture fair previews the pieces you'll be specifying next year, plus a few pure objects of desire. We bring you the highlights.
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Exclusion zones
Fear of 'the dangerous other' leads societies to build structures to keep threats out – or to shut them in. But in our networked world, they can move in undetectable ways
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Not just a pipe dream
Peter Wilder of Derek Lovejoy Partnership explains the importance of designing for zero hydrological impact
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Sergison Bates' self-build housing is transforming part of a tough Tilbury estate and giving local unemployed people the construction skills to tackle other projects
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Archive TitlesTurning a corner
On a busy intersection in downtown Cincinnati, Zaha Hadid has been inspired by the constraints of a tight urban site to produce the best building of her career
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Collect
Continuing his series on iconic materials, our contributor charts the radical reinvention of wood as a furniture material
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Corporate culture change
The traditional head office is dying out. In a changeable economic climate, the need for more adaptable spaces has set up new relationships between developers, users and architects
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Industrial past captured for new exhibition
With regeneration reducing so many industrial areas to toy towns, Bernd and Hilla Becher have spent the last decade rushing to industrial sites to capture images of furnaces (above), cooling towers and water and gas tanks before they disappear. Tate Modern's new photography exhibition Cruel and Tender (5 June-7 September) ...
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Diversity or bust
Hard times may loom but Austrian architect Coop Himmelb(l)au has hit upon an ingenious new marketing opportunity
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Brief encounter: Mark Lawson
The arts broadcaster and writer is a judge for the RIBA Awards, announced this month
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Architects' Choice
In the second of our series Architects' Choice, we asked five specifying designers to pick their favourite pieces of office furniture
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Where have all the children gone?
Sited in the mountains and near the sea, colonie, which began in mid-19th century Italy, provided young children with an opportunity to escape the twin urban threats of tuberculosis and malnutrition by introducing them to the restorative benefits of sun, fresh air and thalassotherapy. Few early examples had purpose-built structures, ...
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Testing times ahead
Harmonising material specification throughout Europe is a fine idea. But variations between EU and UK tests to measure insulation's fire performance will give architects some hard choices
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Preacher woman
Mecanoo founding partner Francine Houben brings missionary zeal to her curatorship of Rotterdam's first architecture biennale. Its aim is to inspire architects to save – or least improve – the world.