All Features articles – Page 159
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FeaturesEdgar Gonzalez visits Niemeyer’s French Communist Party HQ
In our series in which architects talk about the building that has inspired them most, Edgar Gonzalez revisits Oscar Niemeyer’s Communist Party HQ building in Paris.
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FeaturesArcuk gets on top of its paperwork
The precedessor to Arb, the Architects’ Registration Council UK, wasn’t exactly a barrel of laughs either as this 1984 snap of registrar Ken Forder (left) and finance chair Max Hutchinson shows
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FeaturesDot to dot result: 27 february 2009
Last week’s winner was Anastasia Kapagerof of Sheppard Robson in Manchester, who identified Alvaro Siza’s faculty of architecture in Porto.
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FeaturesDot to dot: 06 March 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday March 11 for a chance to win a copy of Aldo Rossi: Drawings, edited by Germano Celant.
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FeaturesBanking on international markets
Tales of a different recession from 1982, when borrowing was also a big issue for architectural start-ups such as that of Robin Spence and Robin Webster
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FeaturesDot to dot: 27 February 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday March 4 for a chance to win a copy of London’s Changing Riverscape: Panoramas from London Bridge to Greenwich by Charles Craig, Graham Diprose & Mike Seaborne
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FeaturesDot to dot result: February 20
This week’s winner is Michael Dahlhausen of Marchini Curran Associates in Nottingham, who identified Arata Isozaki’s art museum in Gunma, Japan
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FeaturesInspiration begins at home
Can’t afford to take staff on a three-day break to an exotic foreign location? Never mind, says Keith Bradley of Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios. The creative juices flow just as well at home.
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FeaturesDealing with redundancy
If you're facing redundancy where can you turn to for help? Emily Cadman looks at the practicalities of the redundancy procedure and where to get advice.
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Retirement and peace of mind
In Practice, December 19, we featured a question by a reader considering winding up their practice and asking about organising a 12-year run-off professional indemnity insurance.
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FeaturesHow do a make a saving on my indemnity insurance?
While I study for a postgraduate qualification, I want to do a small amount of self-employed architectural work to provide an income of about £5,000.
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FeaturesFoster’s familiar tune
“Are we ruthless or just consistent?” Foster pondered in a BD interview that described him as the first architect since Lutyens to have achieved “acclaimed buildings and a large and expanding workload”
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FeaturesHow can I cut the number of partners at my firm?
Times at my business are tough and I need to look at reducing partner head count. How do I go about this?
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 20 February 2009
Name the building for the chance to win a copy of Green Design by Marcus Fairs.
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FeaturesDot to dot result: February 13
The winner of last week’s competition was Yvonne Munday of Scott Brownrigg in Guildford, who identified Eero Saarinen’s terminal at Washington Dulles Airport.
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FeaturesPioneer spirit meets polyurethane
We look back to the heady days of the 1970s energy crisis, when hand-crafting your own home out of super-insulating foam was the way to go in Wisconsin
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FeaturesWill investment in primary schools help small practices find work?
This month four experts consider an issue facing practices in the education sector
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FeaturesA round-up of the latest education projects
Krishna-Avanti Primary:Cottrell & Vermeulen's temple of learning The first voluntary-aided Hindu School in the UK is being designed by Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture. Krishna-Avanti Primary School is in the borough of Harrow, north London, which has the country’s highest Hindu population outside of Leicester. The practice engaged in consultation to ...
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FeaturesSheppard Robson’s Churchill College was built to last the course
Sheppard Robson’s Churchill College was dubbed safe and even bland in 1959, but 50 years on 6A Architects is revisiting the original courtyard-based design for its new hall of residence