All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 87
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Archive TitlesNow you see it …
Pringle Richards Sharratt's winter garden is a brave attempt to reinvigorate Sheffield city centre. But with buildings growing around it faster than its own foliage, is it ever going to be fully appreciated?
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Letter of the law
You have just two months to gen up on the next set of changes to the Building Regulations – from new rules on acoustics to standards for fire safety. Here's what you need to know …
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Archive TitlesUpstart: Malcolm Fraser on the new Edinburgh Old Town
The fire that started on the night of 7 December, in the middle of Edinburgh's World Heritage Site, should remind us of a few simple facts: that architecture is not just, or even first, about buildings; that heritage can be about a particular pattern of urban occupation as much as ...
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Doctor in the house
Is your building feeling a little under the weather, creaking with old age or plagued by a blocked breathing system? Perhaps it's time to call in the building pathologist to give it a health check. But just how far can we take the comparison between construction and human pathology?
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Archive TitlesStare case
Replacing an Edwardian house with an uncompromising piece of modernism was bound to raise eyebrows. But Fraser Brown MacKenna's luxurious home, complete with leather-covered stairs, will turn heads.
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Principles: A case on contribution
Architects and clients will always argue about net contributions. One recent ruling will make them easier to agree.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Zoë Ryan
Zoë Ryan is co-curator of Renewing, Remembering, Rebuilding, an exhibition opening this month at The Lighthouse in Glasgow.
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Archive TitlesGehry in the bag
The new year begins with yet another book on Frank Gehry, a paperback small enough to slip into a bag.
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Archive TitlesSauerbruch Hutton does art house in Munich
Munich's image as the chocolate-box capital of German architecture is being turned on its head thanks, in part, to a string of new museums.
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Time for a Royal Institute of British Architecture
My mother-in-law was astonished at my inclusion in The Economist’s December listing of the top 100 UK jobs.
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Archive TitlesGuy Greenfield gives Falmouth another landmark – and the planners love it
Falmouth is firmly on the map since the opening late last year of Long & Kentish's maritime museum.
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Archive TitlesThe best and worst of 2002
It was quite a year and, now that the Hogmanay hangovers are fading, it's time to take a more honest look at the past 12 months. So here are RIBAJ's best building, most glamorous event and biggest PR coup – but also the worst city, the juiciest scandal and more. ...
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View from the top
Want to know what you'll be doing for a living this year? We find out which sectors property giant Lend Lease is feeling confident about and you tell us what has been affecting your business …
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Archive TitlesSix vie for Pentagon memorial
Four New Yorkers, a Canadian and a New Zealander receive US$20,000 to develop concepts for Washington site.
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The major league
We all know it's been a difficult year. Over the next 26 pages, we find out how everyone from the biggest hitter – Nikken Sekkei again – to the little leaguers has fared. There's the top 300 table, fees per architect and top 10s for regions and market sectors: everything ...
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Archive TitlesIsozaki’s Olympics
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has won an international competition to design a 12,500-seat ice hockey arena for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
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Archive TitlesViñoly gothic
Rafael Viñoly’s Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago has started on site. Due for completion next year, the building is at the heart of the college and sits opposite Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House. The glass and steel building will try to recall the gothic style of ...
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Steidle and Gigon/Guyer scoop Schumacher prize
The 2002 Fritz Schumacher Prize has been given to Munich’s Otto Steidle, architect of the Hamburg headquarters of publishing house Gruner + Jahr, and the Zurich partnership of Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer, designers of the Varus battlefield archaeological museum and park in Lower Saxony.
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Stirling's Stuttgart music plan reaches finale
James Stirling and Michael Wilford's concept for a concentration of museums and arts colleges in Stuttgart, designed in the 1970s and 1980s, has been completed a decade after Stirling's death.
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Your favourite firms
With partnering increasing throughout the design and construction chain, we thought it appropriate to look in much greater depth at the contractors and consultants that architects favour most.