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Dot to Dot: 12 December 2008
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday December 17 for a chance to win a copy of Herzog & de Meuron Complete Works Vol 4, 1997-2001, by Gerhard Mack.
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FeaturesCompact 100 Recessed Luminaires
The Compact 100 range provides ambient lighting for administrative and commercial spaces, and offers cost-effective, quality design
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FeaturesWhat’s wrong with quick wins?
Are end of year projects looking to spend cash quickly evidence that better procurement is possible?
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FeaturesMurray takes his message Nationwide
In 1979, former BD editor Peter Murray made an appearance on the BBC TV news programme Nationwide to talk about design failure
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FeaturesDot to dot December 5
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday for a chance to win a copy of Fuller Houses by Federico Neder.
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FeaturesDot to dot results: November 28
Last week’s winner was Patrick Dignan in Edinburgh, who identified the Wittgenstein House, Vienna, by Paul Engelmann and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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FeaturesO is for Onassis... and Obama
Jackie Onassis washed up at the RIBA’s now defunct Heinz Gallery in Portman Square back in 1979, and BD was there to capture the moment
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FeaturesInterview: Ian Ritchie
Ian Ritchie is an architect prepared to break with convention. He tells Amanda Baillieu how his involuntary departure from the Westfield development at Shepherd’s Bush hasn’t deterred him from standing up for what he believes in
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FeaturesHow the boom busted planning
Boom has been horrible for UK architecture, bringing with it the blight of US-style malls to our towns and countryside. Will better planning return to the equation in leaner times?
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FeaturesCulture of transparency: Nomad’s glass walls for architects’ bank Arquia in Bilbao
Arquia, a Spanish bank specialising in services for architects, upped the design stakes for its new Bilbao branch with walls created from giant pharmaceutical glass test tubes by architect Nomad
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FeaturesArchitect Freestate’s hall of mirrors
Architect Freestate created a vast hall of mirrors for Sony Europe in Berlin this September
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 28 November
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday December 3 for a chance to win a copy of Design & Plan in the Country House by Andor Gomme & Alison Maguire.
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FeaturesDot to dot results: November 21
Last week’s competition winner was Robert Rimell of 3DReid in London, who identified the Eden Project near St Austell in Cornwall by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners.
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FeaturesRule of Regulation in Rotterdam
Finn Williams reinterprets Corb’s Maison Citrohan using today’s building codes
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FeaturesVictorian Woodworks’ Lincoln oak
Victorian Woodworks offers wood flooring solutions for commercial and residential environments.
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FeaturesLubetkin’s legacy is worth more
Two of Lubetkin’s London buildings are back in the news — all for the wrong reasons, of course
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FeaturesPetersen Tegl’s Kolumba
Kolumba is a new collection of handcrafted, horizontal building ceramics intended for masonry and tiling, developed in cooperation with architect Peter Zumthor for the Kolumba Museum in Cologne, Germany.
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FeaturesHelpdesk: There’s life in the old fax yet
Hugh Davies explores the options for architects who still need to fax
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FeaturesKingspan Off-Site Fabrik’s facade system
This lightweight external cladding comprises a high-strength, glass-reinforced concrete backing, factory-fixed to a Kingspan Metro Architectural facade system, to provide a unitised and insulated wall solution.
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FeaturesWorld’s End, the pride of Eric Lyons
When the World’s End housing estate was completed in Chelsea in 1977 after 10 years of construction, it was deemed a failure. Three decades on, the enduring excellence of the design by Eric Lyons and HT Cadbury-Brown is recognised by architects and the people who live there