All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 91
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Archive TitlesRemaking the Landscape
It is a truth universally acknowledged – other than in North Korea and Cuba – that there is no situation that government intervention cannot make worse.
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Move over John
It will come as no surprise to learn that the government believes it has delivered, or is delivering, the urban renaissance as laid out by Lord Rogers and co back in 1999.By the time you read this, 13 ministers will have spent two days in a Birmingham convention centre telling ...
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Archive TitlesAt home with the RIBA
The title of the RIBA's main autumn exhibition – Coming Homes: 3.8 Million Reasons to Think About Housing – neatly sums up the problem with the UK's housing development. It all comes down to numbers. Government projections of the need for 3.8 million new homes are set against the current ...
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Archive TitlesOur Lady full of grace
Rafael Moneo's Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral has opened in Los Angeles.
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Laying the foundations
The main criticism of the RIBA – that it is 'just a trade union' – is both irritating and damaging.
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Data protection
Can your practice afford to lose £5000 for contravening the Data Protection Act? Thought not. So, you need to know the rules
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Archive TitlesGumuchdjian goes underground to solve London school's space crisis
Not far from Hampden Gurney Primary School, the Building Design Partnership project that made it onto this year's Stirling Prize shortlist, is another school that shares some of the same problems.
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Archive TitlesIn Commons
Small practices descended on parliament last month to try their hand at lobbying.
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Archive TitlesWe just clicked
Harry Seidler knows as well as anyone that photography is vital to the understanding of modernism. From his brother Marcell to Eric Sierins, he has commissioned some of Australia's best photographers.
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Archive TitlesChild of the city
Wedged into the historic centre of Edinburgh, the New Cowgate Nursery is a haven for children – and an impressive departure for Allan Murray Architects.
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Archive TitlesCentre of the universe
Online collaboration was meant to revolutionise construction. But it didn't exactly change many architects' lives. So why, years after the dotcom crash, is Autodesk relaunching its Buzzsaw tool?
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Upstart: Putting criminals out of business
How many crimes ever see the inside of a courtroom?
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Archive TitlesBuried treasure
Wine bottles, drink cartons and old newspapers. The contents of your bin bag may not look valuable but all these products – and others that are thrown away on building sites across the UK – could be turned into useful construction materials. Here's how …
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Simon Thurley
English Heritage's chief executive talks skills, museums and, of course, towers.
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Archive TitlesBalmond on form
Informal is a vivid and intriguing new book by Cecil Balmond, the man whose work puts meaning back into the cliché 'thinking outside the square'.
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Archive TitlesFeilden Clegg Bradley's green acres
When Countryside Properties asked Feilden Clegg Bradley to design 382 dwellings in Cambridge, the architect wanted to inject some variety to the scheme.
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Archive TitlesOn the tiles
'Marble' tiles and chic bathroom furniture grabbed the limelight at this year's Cersaie, Bologna's answer to Milan's showiest trade fair.
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Archive TitlesToy stories
Playful forms, bright colours and puzzles are the hallmarks of the major projects now nearing completion around the world. We get in touch with her inner child to preview the 30 best buildings of 2003.
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Archive TitlesSkewed logic
This new lecture theatre for the Irish parliament is designed to teach children about the democratic process. Older visitors should also get a lesson in the spatial sophistication of its architect, O'Donnell + Tuomey.
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Archive TitlesUFO lands in Sicily
Pan-European architecture office Urban Future Organisation, working with Centola & Associati, has won joint first prize in a competition for a new art and architecture museum in Castelmola, Sicily.It shares first prize with Antonella Mari of Bari, Italy.The two beat Italian teams Plug-in/Arch, Sud'Arc-H, U'Studio and Vaccarini/ESA ...