All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 95
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Archive TitlesCan building skins think?
And what does 'intelligent architecture' really mean? Here, the co-author of Intelligent Skins, offers his definition – and explains how the 22 buildings in the book were chosen.
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Archive TitlesPolice investigate blaze at Michael Graves house
Indiana police are investigating a fire that destroyed one of the early works of Michael Graves, the Snyderman House in Fort Wayne.
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Archive TitlesBlack gold
Architect Woods Bagot is about to begin work on a new college of technology in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The US$100m project will offer 75,000m2 of new buildings for a 3000-student college that focuses on engineering, petroleum and gas technology.
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Archive TitlesThe next big things
The Biennale of architecture may not be as high-profile as the film or art festivals, but it is the world's biggest architecture exhibition – and everyone who's anyone in the design world was in Venice for its opening.
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Foster to design Benjamin tribute
Town hall in Portbou, Spain, to be converted in German-Jewish thinker's honour.
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Archive TitlesBig City plans arts oasis for Montréal
Montréal architect Atelier Big City has won a competition to design a new entry point for the Place des Arts (PdA) in Montréal.
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Architects slam 'tragic' Berlin reconstruction
Daniel Libeskind, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Thomas Herzog have blasted the German parliament's decision to reconstruct Berlin's neo-baroque Hohenzollern Schloss in a €670m (US$666m) project.
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Massive clean-up starts after floods devastate Europe
Repairs run into billions of euros as some of Europe's finest buildings, bridges and historic sites are ravaged.
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Archive TitlesYoung Barcelona studio Cero 9 powers up for bioclimatic office
Cristina Díaz and Efrén García Grinda of Barcelona studio Cero 9 have won a limited competition to build offices for Spanish power company Made-Endesa (pictured).The firm is a division of Spanish electric power producer Endesa and makes solar collectors and wind-powered generators. It proposes to make the facility a model ...
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Top 100 interiors survey
The names at the summit may be the same but a lot has changed since last year's survey of the world's biggest interiors firms. We take a look at the market.
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Archive Titles10 facts about the Top 100
1 The number of interior designers employed by the Top 100 firms has fallen 12% in the past year.2 The USA still dominates when it comes to mega-practices: 51 of the Top 100 are American.This is down slightly from last year's 57.3 First-placed Gensler has shed 533 staff since ...
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State of the union
Vassilis Sgoutas, whose three-year term ended in July, has been an outstanding president of the Union of International Architects (UIA). Founded in 1948, membership has now increased from 21 to 110 nations, representing 879,324 architects.Europe (known as Region I) is by far the largest region, with some 352,000 members. Next ...
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School of thought
White Design's Bristol architecture and planning school is more of a textbook than a building, an object lesson in functional and sustainable design
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Principles: Deeds
What's the difference between a deed and a simple contract? If you are going to be sued, it works out at six years...
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A sense of place
Edwin Smith's photographs are more about creating a mood than recording a building. This 1936 image of Kentish Town Station is pure Brief Encounter
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A new spin
This month's round-up of new technology takes in a web service that helps architects keep their sites looking fresh, and the latest flatscreen displays
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A moving story
The Victorian gasholders at St Pancras were an integral part of the area's industrial landscape but, once work started on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, they had to come down. So how do you go about deconstructing and reassembling a listed structure?
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Parnaby to start Street Life
Richard Parnaby, head of the new Design Commission for Wales, is to kick off Street Life, the Urban Design Week conference. He will call for more emphasis on buildings’ effect on the urban realm.The week – a good warm-up for the government’s urban summit next month – will take up ...
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Health and safety: Injuries in the office
RIBAJ explains how to avoid a compensation claim
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Expand your horizons
Victoria Briggs, 32, is an architect at David Morley Architects. In her capacity as the practice's CPD organiser, she invited the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers to explain the nuts and bolts of locks and doors...