All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 93
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Archive TitlesManchester memento
Memory plays tricks on us, and never more so than in Nathan Coley's artwork for Manchester's Fabrications, an exploration of urban memory by six artists.
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What makes a winner?
It's Stirling Prize time again and I am writing this piece en route to Edward Cullinan's gridshell at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum near Chichester.
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Liabilities to landlords
If you work for a building tenant who later goes bust, does that make you liable to his landlord?
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Archive TitlesLegends of the labyrinth
Deep in the hidden book stacks of Senate House, Robert Hutson has created a new centre to house ancient texts, and lined it in glass and steel.
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Archive TitlesKey to the loch
Subtle mediation between the manmade and the natural realms is the key to the success of Bennetts Associates' tourist and information centre at Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park.
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Archive TitlesStill got it?
As architecture's great and good head to Gateshead for the 2002 Stirling Prize, we revisit the last three recipients of the award – Magna, Peckham Library and the NatWest Media Centre – to find out how the buildings are standing up. Do the people who use them think they're winners?
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Archive TitlesNew Eye view
As if the BA London Eye weren’t popular enough, artist David Mach has filled the gardens below it with a collage of flowers and people frolicking and picnicking – he has even dropped in a pigeon.
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Archive TitlesRomantic dinner
For Max Clendinning, interiors were the romantic landscapes of the modern world. This remodelling of his own Victorian house shows him at his most inventive and iconoclastic.
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Archive TitlesHover craft
Glenn Howells' homage to Mies van der Rohe is a crisply detailed glass pavilion that seems to float effortlessly above a moat, barely disturbing its idyllic setting.
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Archive TitlesOh so cool
Time was, the must-have item to impress friends was a DVD player or an iMac. These days, it's more likely to be the latest kitchen appliance, such as the fridge that broadcasts television programmes, allows internet access and plays music. Oh yes, it also keeps your food cold.
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Archive TitlesCall of the wild
Holiday retreat, guest suite and wildlife hide, Andy Ramus' versatile boathouse embraces all the functions its client demanded thanks to a minimal structure that dissolves the barrier between inside and out. It also holds fabulous parties.
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Archive TitlesEH gets hot under the collar over new Building Regulations
English Heritage is concerned that many buildings of 'architectural, townscape, landscape or historic interest' will be forced into insensitive alterations to comply with the new Part L.
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Archive TitlesBack from the brink
Our City limits series on regeneration heads to Bradford, to find out how the city is working to escape its turbulent past with projects such as Urban Splash's redevelopment of Manningham Mills. And on the eve of the urban summit, what lessons can it offer the rest of the ...
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Archive TitlesJust hanging around
How do you design a bedroom that children will want to spend time in – from their first birthday to their 18th? For Ash Sakula, winner of the RIBAJ/MFI prize Room to Grow, you use every scrap of space to create a flexible paradise.
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Archive TitlesSurface Architecture
Surface ArchitectureDavid LeatherbarrowMIT Press£27.50We are all familiar with the notion that the history of Western architecture has involved a shift from buildings that use heavy, static and opaque exterior walls, to ones that rely increasingly for their protection on thin, lightweight and translucent or transparent cladding. Many new forms of ...
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Archive TitlesThe New Paradigm in Architecture
Charles Jencks is the greatest living architectural philologist.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor is in the final stages of creating a vast sculpture that will fill the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. For this, the third in the Unilever series, he is working with structural engineer Cecil Balmond.
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Archive TitlesAll mapped out
The technology used to map the nation is now being bundled into workable solutions for design professionals and the wider public – with varying degrees of success.
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Archive TitlesAcquired taste
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris' redesign of the Barbican's Waterside Cafe unashamedly strips away the layers of a previous refit, taking its cue from the iconic building's original grid to create an elegant dining space.