All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 89
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SOM reveals plan for 7 World Trade Center
Developer Larry Silverstein has unveiled plans for a new 7 World Trade Center tower, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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The top 300
Nikken Sekkei is still number one, but there has been a 4% like-for-like drop in the number of fee-earning architects employed by this year’s top 300.
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Top 10s
The Top 300 is based on number of fee-earning architects. Over the next eight pages, we show you the money – the world's largest practices ranked by fee income from nine regions and 16 market sectors.
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Archive TitlesTurning the tide
Lottery arts projects don't always live up to the hype, but this one – Long & Kentish's maritime museum – is a spectacular and surprising building with a fine collection.
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Archive TitlesPrice is right
There was one notable absence at last month's RIBA Royal Gold Medal presentation: Cedric Price, who will later this month pick up an award of his own – the n55,000 Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts. At last month's presentation at 66 Portland Place (shown top left), ...
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Archive TitlesPlane sailing
In the first of two building studies on domestic extensions, Studio KAP juxtaposes pronounced horizontals with the solid vertical lines of a Victorian villa in Glasgow.
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Archive TitlesThe office
Every Ricky Gervais fan knows that work can be hell. But there’s nothing like a new office to make the nine-to-five more bearable, as David Chipperfield, Ushida Findlay and others explain …
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Archive TitlesNew waves
Developer Urban Splash is renowned for reusing existing buildings with style and clarity. How did architect Glenn Howells translate this philosophy to the developer's new-build headquarters?
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Archive TitlesThe new spot
Muirhouse used to be best known as the setting for Trainspotting. Now, thanks to Zoo Architects, the Edinburgh estate has a friendly and uplifting arts centre.
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Archive TitlesMies and me
Adrian Gale was an Englishman newly arrived in Chicago when he got a job in the studio of the great architect. As an exhibition on Mies opens in London, Gale explains how the office worked and why many of the critics who have reinterpreted Mies got it wrong.
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Archive TitlesTable manners
Was your practice born on a long table? Now you can recreate those heady days with a high-tech communal desk complete with data and power slots, storage and even dividers.
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No logo
How do you describe yourself? A quick look at the letters we receive reveals that most of you use your college qualification (MA or BA), followed by Dip Arch, followed by RIBA, if you are a member. Is it really necessary to add the ARB logo to your crowded letterheads? ...
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Archive TitlesLive and let live
Two years ago, this Putney house was almost derelict. Today, thanks to Curtis Wood, it is filled with crisp yet warm living spaces, and ambitious ideas about minimalism.
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Archive TitlesNorthern hospitality
Roy Keane probably isn't too impressed, but BDP's stylish corporate and press facilities put Manchester United in a league of its own.
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Archive TitlesThe stars at home
The cognoscenti preferred Palladio Mondo wallpaper but, in the early 1960s, one east Londoner lined his walls with cut-outs of his favourite celebrities.
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Archive TitlesThe stars at home
The cognoscenti preferred Palladio Mondo wallpaper but, in the early 1960s, one east Londoner lined his walls with cut-outs of his favourite celebrities.
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Archive TitlesSanta's little helpers
Christmas is a stressful time, but you can spread a little goodwill by giving useful and stylish gadgets to the architects you love. Stephen Pacey picks three of the best.
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Archive TitlesOn a Grander Scale
On a Grander ScaleLisa JardineHarper Collins£25Lisa Jardine begins her book with the one non-modernist architectural epigram that we all know: 'Reader, if you require a monument, look around you.' Odd, then, that over the 600 pages, barely 20 are devoted to St Paul's, the country's first, and perhaps only, really ...
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Archive TitlesSitting in the evening sun …
Few architects and artists can say they have been collaborating for 20 years. But Will Alsop and Bruce McLean have been working together on and off since they met at west London’s Riverside Studios in 1979. Without deadlines or a reason beyond the joy of creativity, they have spent summers ...
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Archive TitlesShop till you drop
Forget the new Selfridges and the January sales. If you're really into shopping, Tate Liverpool is where it's at. Its exhibition Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture includes Andreas Gursky's 99 Cent II (above), which captures the most exciting aspect of shopping – sheer consumption. With 'nothing over ...