All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 99
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Principles: Party walls
Planning to build a party wall? Then you'd better read our guide to the 1996 act – and how to stay friends with the neighbours
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Perfect pitch
How do you turn a ramshackle set of historic buildings into contemporary flats? Adams & Sutherland took its cue from the existing rooflines to create a jagged yet ordered design
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The missing link
Feilden Clegg Bradley's elegant visitor centre is designed to persuade punters to linger in Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and even spend a little money there. But does it enhance their experience of the art beyond its doors?
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Lessons from the university of life
Malcolm Parry, the recently retired head of Cardiff School of Architecture, gave an excellent speech at July's RIBA Council meeting – the first of the 2002-03 session (he had previously given the talk at the recent RIBA conference).Parry is a great character – wicked humour, infectious charm, incisive mind and ...
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The other gridshell
The diary of the Goethean Science Centre workshop reads more like a boy's own adventure than a high-powered construction project, from its barely-there budget and low-tech modelling to the courageous volunteers who tested the shell's resilience by climbing onto it
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New York's finest is a world-beater
The title of 'best building in the world' has gone to New York's American Folk Art Museum, beating a who's who of British super-architects
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Insurance - Facing the future
RJ explains why PII premiums are rising and where they'll go next
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Public exposure
The abstract geometries and cast-iron animals that constitute most public art schemes rarely relate to the streetscapes in which they are set. But Glasgow's Fieldwork research project is investigating how artworks can be threaded through regeneration schemes to help make sense of old and new urban fabrics.Ian Alexander of architect ...
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Expand your horizons
Patrick Lynch, 33, took an MPhil in the history and philosophy of architecture at Cambridge. He now applies the lessons he learned teaching at the AA and Kingston and running his practice Patrick Lynch Architects.
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Divide and rule
Average salaries have risen 6.3% – four times as fast as inflation. But Architects' Employment and Earnings 2002 reveals that the lion's share is going to a minority of architects
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An open and shut case
In the past, doubling the occupancy of an office meant doubling the number of lifts that take the workers to their desks. Not any more. Advanced lift control systems that serve only certain floors or react to demand are lightening the load for architects and building users
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Upstart: Chris Brown on ethical investing
Socially responsible investment – not exactly words that set the architect's pulse racing, but they should be
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Brief encounter Deyan Sudjic
The renowned pundit has been given the mammoth task of organising the architecture at this year's Venice Biennale. So what is he planning?
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Rare bloom
From the green roofs to the unisex toilets, Clearwater Yard is no ordinary spec office. Its architect describes it as a 'secret garden'. In fact, it is more like an oasis in the desert of London commercial space
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Nicholson's building blocks
Ben Nicholson's clashing forms in Saronikos (left) have an almost building-like solidity and his friendship with the father of the Royal Festival Hall, Sir Leslie Martin, give him an obvious design cachet. But much of the artist's work was bound up with architecture, from drawings of Siena city tower to ...
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The birth of the studios
David Chipperfield and Allies and Morrison weren't the first star architects asked to revamp BBC buildings. Back in the 1930s, the corporation hired up-and-coming designers to bring modernism into the studio
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As you've never seen it before...
Can you capture the inner form of a building by ignoring the detail and taking blurred, moody photographs instead?
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Allford Hall Monaghan Morris on doctor's orders in Kentish Town
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has won a competition launched in the RIBA Journal for the landmark Kentish Town Health Centre in Camden, north London
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All systems go
Imagine a world where you could tell exactly what a job was costing you at any point – and how much you'd get paid for it – by clicking on a simple graph. Such is the power of Job Management System, a new tool for designers that claims to do ...