All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 82
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Archive TitlesLetter from Milan
You can still acquire a mock crock dining table complete with chinchilla fur throws at the Milan Furniture Fair but, like the great game hunters whose style it apes, Fendi Home's stand looks like an endangered species.
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Leader
We hit a brick wall this month when we tried to find UK examples for our planned feature on the three regeneration areas that will be the focus of the RIBA conference in July: Rotterdam, Liverpool and the Thames Gateway. There are plenty of buildings but not a lot of ...
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Three of Rotterdam's latest projects
Dutch cities have a bold attitude to design and Rotterdam has the confidence to take risks in its pursuit of beauty and function in urban renewal
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Archive TitlesGulliver's peace
Threats to buildings from slogans and penguins, plus Libeskind's sell-out boots take our roving reporter marching into May
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Guernica of our times
Saddam Hussein will soon seem a sideshow to the 21st century's redefinition of the relationship of cities to technology and the violent expression of power
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Archive TitlesNo more guessing games
New simulation software will allow architects to predict energy performance with unprecedented accuracy - and EU regulations make that increasingly important.
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Student life exposed
Architecture schools are often perceived as spending too much time on the mind-expanding conceptual stuff and not enough on preparing students for practice.
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Archive TitlesWho are Robbrecht & Daem?
The most fashionable Belgian firm of the moment, that's who. If you think that is not saying much, you are mistaken.
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Archive TitlesShape of things to come
Software advances are bringing fantastic building shapes such as Spacelab's Graz Kunsthaus from fantasy to reality.
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Is this Chipperfield's year?
Will David Chipperfield finally take the Stirling Prize with his own holiday house in Spain?
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Archive TitlesBroaden your horizons
If your practice is finding building commissions rather thin on the ground, take a look at the bigger picture. Masterplanning may not make you rich, but it can help cashflow and offer a variety of interesting work.
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The regeneration of Rotterdam has been going on for a long time
– much of the city fabric was destroyed in the first few weeks of the Second World War.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Hisham Ashkouri
Hisham Ashkouri, trained in Baghdad but now based in Newton MA, could be one of the first expatriate architects to advise on Iraq's reconstruction.
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Archive TitlesActs of dissolution
The first significant retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark's work in the UK was held at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1993.
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Archive Titles3. Reclamation project
Katendrecht Haven was once a lawless port area rife with prostitution, drugs and street fights. Now Rotterdam is reclaiming it as a residential area and a beacon for future redevelopment.
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Archive Titles2. City slicker
Bosch Architects' City Building is an urban sophisticate intended to raise the tone in a long neglected area of Rotterdam.
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Archive Titles1. Pleasure garden
The first of three examples of Rotterdam's regeneration programme, KCAP's apartment blocks and school make a humane and intelligent contribution to a mini-city ranged around a garden square
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Archive TitlesSpeaking the vernacular
Contemporary architects are often in the habit of presenting their work as 'innovative', but Paul Oliver's book is a reminder that there are very few genuinely new ideas around.
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Archive TitlesPlaying in the ruins
Lured by a fascination for its mysterious monuments, many early photographers made their way to Egypt.