All Features articles – Page 132
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FeaturesFormer GLC chief architect Roger Walters dies aged 93
Roger Walters, chief architect at the Greater London Council during most of the 1970s, has died aged 93.
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FeaturesPaper prodigy
Rem Koolhaas gave the audience a glimpse of things to come at an ICA debate with Massimo Scolari in 1983
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FeaturesMe and my IT: Robert Klaschka
We are very much a technology-focused practice. We’re MicroStation-based and have been working with bim since the office was created in 2001. I’m now the chair of the Bentley Community, the MicroStation user group in the UK, and am about to co-chair a bim round-table for consultants and contractors.We work ...
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FeaturesOur main client has unexpectedly gone into administration...
Our major client has unexpectedly gone into administration owing us money and reducing our workload prospects, which means we face insolvency ourselves. What is the best way forward?
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Bim adds an extra dimension
Political advisers may be pushing building information modelling, but is the industry ready?
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 15 October 2010
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday 20 October 2010 for a chance to win a copy of Concrete: A Seven Thousand Year History, by Reese Palley
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FeaturesDot to dot results: 08 October 2010
Last week’s winner was John Hope of Edinburgh, who identified Edwin Lutyens’ Rashtrapati Bhavan, aka Viceroy’s House, in New Delhi
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FeaturesA British practice in Russia: "It may be difficult for things to go to plan..."
PRP’s regional director Michael Graham on the trials and tribulations of a UK practice working in Russia
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FeaturesRussian design is all in the detail: Buromoscow
Characterised by an obsessive attention to detail and a rigorous research-driven agenda, Buromoscow is affecting change through its stealthy approach.
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FeaturesThe Moscow architect unafraid to make waves: Boris Bernaskoni
In the first of a series of profiles on Moscow’s new wave of young architects, we speak to Boris Bernaskoni, whose radical office is working across scales from dachas to urban masterplans, driven by an energetic political agenda.
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FeaturesAnd on the fifth day...
In 1983, a group of Northampton Jehovah’s Witnesses built their own meeting hall in less than 100 hours
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 8 October 2010
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday October 13 for a chance to win a copy of American Painting, published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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FeaturesDot to dot results: 1 October 2010
Last week’s winner was Natasha Lucic of Young & Gault in Glasgow, who identified Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia
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FeaturesStirling reactions: 'the UK entries didn't stand a chance'
The dust has settled and Zaha Hadid has found a spot on her perfectly parametrical shelf for her new award, but how popular was the judges decision? BD asks other architects what they thought of this year’s Stirling and takes a look at how the award was covered by the ...
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FeaturesCould things only get better?
More than 13 years on, south London’s Aylesbury Estate is finally being demolished - but what of the promises it witnessed at the dawn of the Blair years?
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FeaturesDot to dot results: September 24
The winner of last week’s competition was James Grey of Thames Ditton in Surrey, who identified Snape Maltings in Suffolk
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 1 October 2010
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday October 6 for a chance to win a copy of Architecture Renderings: Construction and Design Manual, edited by Fabio Schillaci
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FeaturesNew Part L: How much glass?
With the latest revisions to the building regulations going ’live’ on October 1 Mark Taylor, technical director at Allies and Morrison and Ant Wilson, director of building engineering at AECOM, uncover the mystery of how much transparency is allowable on non-dwelling facades.
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FeaturesFrom the archive: ArtNet special
It may have only had a five-year life-span, but Peter Cook’s ArtNet, founded and closed in the seventies, had considerable impact on London’s architectural community.
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FeaturesCooking up a storm at the ArtNet rally
This poster for Peter Cook’s Architecture Rally drew a lot of traffic to BD’s letters page in 1978