All Blogs articles – Page 25
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BlogsMove over Gok Wan, Adolf Loos is back
From English-cut suits, to stretchy white pants, we investigate the feisty Austrian polemicist’s exacting sartorial standards.
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BlogsModernise or die
BIM is a process - so it is pointless creating an institute, using the ’right’ software, and thinking it will save your job.
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BlogsGetting down and dirty
Engineers tend to default to a comforting pallet of materials, but wouldn’t it be fun to use more elemental materials?
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BlogsFoster comes across better than his buildings
Last week I was invited to a screening of How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? at the ICA, a documentary profile of the award-winning architect Norman Foster.
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BlogsAn emerging market crawls back under its rock
Feilden Clegg Bradley has become the first firm to pull out of Libya over revulsion at events of the last few days, but should it have been there at all?
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BlogsInstalling updates complete...
Two new free products from Autodesk and Tekla whet the bim geek's appetite.
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BlogsBird watching gets sexy
Bird watching, twitching and birding are all pursuits that have not generally been associated with cupid’s arching arrow.
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BlogsWeekends away
Planning a weekend get away for a bunch of architect friends can be a bit of a poisoned chalice.
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BlogsRobot down to Electric Avenue
Take a trip to a different reality and you’ll find that the one man’s alternate vision of Brixton is not gentrification but ‘cyber-ification’.
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BlogsDammit, I do bim…
Bim is becoming a buzzword, but the real message is being lost amongst the hype.
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BlogsArchitectural tongue-twisters
Whilst the ridicule poured on office based jargon has been well documented architects, with their own brand of the fluffy stuff, seem to have escaped relatively lightly.
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BlogsWhat price bim?
Bim make some sense, but what do we lose by adopting it? A great deal in theory.
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BlogsIs this the end of playtime?
Google’s new offices follow the familiar workplace-as-playground theme. So is it time we started to get serious about work?
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BlogsScullery Made
There are no new spatial solutions to be found in the field of housing design. Or perhaps more accurately; there are no new spatial problems.
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BlogsManifestos for Design
Writing your own personal manifesto for design is much harder than it sounds.
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BlogsIt’s a fleece, Jim but not as we know it.
News Junkie could be forgiven for thinking that Hollywood was scraping the bottom of the barrel of the apocalyptic, alien invasion format, when news reached us of a large fleece being spotted over Vancouver Museum.
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BlogsAfter a fashion
Architecture and fashion owe a great deal to one another, but the partnership is not always a match made in heaven
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BlogsHigh speed rail is a waste of resources
Is it really so critical to be able to get from London to Birmingham 30 minutes faster than is currently possible? Surely there are better ways of spending £33 billion?