All Books articles – Page 11
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Features
Retail’s emerging technologies
Retail Solutions, at London’s ExCel centre, June 24-26, will explore cutting-edge IT for stores
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FeaturesLindsay Lohan leads guerilla shopping trend
Pop-up shops are increasingly popular with mega-brands such as Selfridges
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ReviewBook review: Life is in tents
Richard Weston wonders why the tents in Philip Drew’s latest book, New Tent Architecture, are such unsatifying structures
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ReviewHow radical sixties architecture let it all hang out
Forty years after the unrest of May 1968, Shumon Basar reviews Spaced Out, a study of some of the avant-garde structures of the psychedelic sixties
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FeaturesRead all about it: Private Residential Complexes by Sergi Costa
Trends in multi-housing projects
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FeaturesSpeeches, policy and a great cup of tea
The Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual conference rocks up Harrogate, June 17-19
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The numbers game
240,000 plastic Monopoly houses have been ordered for an installation at Des Res: London’s Housing Challenge, an exhibition at New London Architecture from April 24 to June 14.
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ReviewLooking good in photos
Anthony Vidler’s new book considers how celebrity influences architecture, says Thomas Muirhead
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ReviewChiselling an identity
The relationship between architecture and sculpture is explored in Penelope Curtis’s latest book
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FeaturesRead all about it: Sustainable Healthcare Architecture by Robin Guenther & Gail Vittori
At their core, green buildings are about making the world a better place to live.
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The numbers game
20,000 deaths a year are either directly or partly attributable to hospital-acquired infections, while at least 9% of inpatients will suffer from an infection, leading to a total of 300,000 cases a year.
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FeaturesA world of healthy trends
Find out how healthcare trends in Singapore, the Middle East and the US are influencing UK healthcare provision at a one-day conference in London on May 8.
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FeaturesPower of pebbles
Pembury Hospital, a PFI hospital by Anshen & Allen, is using the US Pebble Project model to share healthcare design ideas
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ReviewTrying to build bridges: the roles of architect and engineer
The history of the respective roles of architect and engineer, often prone to friction if not outright conflict, is explored in this riveting and entertaining book, writes Tony McIntyre
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ReviewHow health and hygiene dominated inter-war modernist architecture
Paul Overy’s book explores the links between the inter-war modern movement and social preoccupations with health and hygiene, writes Alan Powers