All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 97
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Archive TitlesThe insiders
We all know about glass, timber, plastic and stone but, these days, interior finishes are just as likely to be made of rubber, chainmail, gel or even computer-generated puddles. We have the inside track on the traditional materials being used in new ways, and those science-fiction products.
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Archive TitlesLisbon mayor plans historic rescue
Centre-right politician seeks private investors and new laws to finance revival of 'collapsing' city centre.
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Archive TitlesKurokawa towers over Foster and KPF
Tokyo-based Kisho Kurokawa has beaten the UK's Foster and Partners and Kohn Pedersen Fox of the USA to the job of designing the centrepiece of a new urban quarter in Singapore.The 123,000m2 mixed-use complex is made up of three linked towers ranging from 23 to 28 storeys high. Kurokawa says ...
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Public outcry forces Ground Zero rethink
Development corporation may bring in new consultants to work on unpopular plans for Lower Manhattan.
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Archive TitlesNew Delhi's parliament library opens
Raj Rewal's prestigious new parliament library has been completed in New Delhi, India.The building (pictured) is situated in the heart of the city, flanked by the president's palace and the parliament house designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker during British rule.The 55,000m2 new library replaces an information store in ...
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Archive TitlesKoolhaas scoops Oslo library complex
Office for Metropolitan Architecture has won a competition to design a major cultural complex in Oslo, Norway.The 135,000m2 multi-use complex (pictured) will consist of a city library, museum, cinema, commercial space, offices and housing.Rem Koolhaas' office beat five other practices to the commission, including second-placed Foster and Partners. The library ...
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Archive TitlesFrom the centre of the earth
Arthur Erickson's Museum of Glass is more megaform than building, a slice of the planet's core pushed up to the surface. Its naturalistic ramps have given Tacoma a new urban district, all in the shadow of a stainless steel 'volcano'.
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Singapore firm to plan capital for new Indian state
The newly formed state of Chhattisgarh in central India is set to develop a capital city on the scale of Le Corbusier's Chandigarh.
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Archive TitlesWork starts to rebuild Mostar bridge
16th-century Bosnian crossing to be reconstructed in US$18m scheme
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Archive TitlesThe best education building
Nursery and infant school, Druk White Lotus School, Ladakh, IndiaArup Associates
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Archive TitlesThe best building in the world
They say the American Folk Art Museum is New York's best building since Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim. Our judges thought it was the best new building anywhere, giving it the US$30,000 Arup World Architecture Award.
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Archive TitlesThe best green buildings
Computer Science Building, York University, Toronto, CanadaAlliance Architects/Busby + Associates
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Archive TitlesThe best office/retail building
Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London, UKRichard Rogers Partnership
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Archive TitlesThe best public/cultural building
American Folk Art Museum, New York, USATod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates
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Archive TitlesWelcome to Berlin
This year's ceremony is held in Berlin, the capital of reunified Germany and home to some of the most exciting contemporary architecture in the world. Here we choose the highlights of the city.
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Archive TitlesSasaki wins Beijing Olympic race
US architect teams up with local firm Tianjin Huahui to masterplan site for 2008 games.
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Three battle for Lincoln Center job
Three architects are in the running for the US$325m project to reconstruct or refurbish Avery Fisher Hall at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.