All Features articles – Page 166
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FeaturesYou know when you’ve been quangoed
What exactly does the Homes & Communities Agency’s brief to produce ‘good design’ mean? And can it deliver anything to rival Pugin, Gaudí or any other of the off-the-map greats?
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FeaturesThat just about wraps it up for the Cellophane House
Michael Stacey looks at the systems behind the pioneering five-storey eco-house by US architect Kieran Timberlake Associates temporarily erected at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this summer
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 31 October
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday for a chance to win a copy of Ken Adam Designs the Movies: James Bond and Beyond by Ken Adam & Christopher Frayling.
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FeaturesDot to dot results: October 24
Last week’s competition winner was Andy Barrett of Barrett Haskins Architects in Sevenoaks, who identified Bertrand Goldberg’s Marina City in Chicago.
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FeaturesThe ‘information superhighway’ as was
Barbour Index founder Patrick Barbour pictured in 1970 with his Mini-driving staff of index cataloguers
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FeaturesMrs Beckett: style icon or menace?
Margaret Beckett is back in government, this time as housing minister, but will her love of caravaning lead to more flexible attitudes on how to address the UK’s housing needs?
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FeaturesDot to dot: 24 October 2008
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday for a chance to win a copy of Michelangelo, Drawing & the Invention of Architecture by Cammy Brothers.
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FeaturesDot to dot results: October 17
Last week’s competition winner was Yvonne Duaz of David Wood Architects, London, who identified Le Corbusier’s Monastery of Sainte-Marie de la Tourette at Eveux, France.
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FeaturesStudent's 'chip shop' pier design wins competition
A pier design inspired by a chip shop and a tea house has won the top award in a student competition to design a water feature for New Brighton in Merseyside.
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FeaturesMiles of tiles
New textured wall and floor tiles inspired by the West Country landscape has been created by Studio Conran for British Ceramic Tile.
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FeaturesLouvres and planks by Reglit
Reglit is a cast-glass plank system typically employed as an external glazing system, but at the refurbishment of Imperial College’s Central Library it was used internally for glazed partitions and as a bespoke external louvre type system to the new service tower above the entrance.
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FeaturesLighting by Modular Lighting
Unable to fix lights into the panelled walls, Hût specified Modular’s Nomad Minimal E27 Short – a ceiling-mounted light that could be angled back to illuminate the wall.
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FeaturesWhite and Silver sanitaryware by Ideal Standard
Chromium-plated taps from the Silver range and basins and toilets from the White sanitaryware range were specified.
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FeaturesHoneycomb panels by Mykon Systems
Mykon B-Clear honeycomb panels were used to create the think-tank group study screens.
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Garden Museum set to reopen
The Museum of Garden History reopens next month as The Garden Museum in London with a new gallery by Dow Jones Architects.
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FeaturesVintage furniture by Retrouvius
The client holding room was conceived to resemble a gentleman’s club for which Retrouvius was commissioned to source vintage furniture.
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FeaturesCan stardom be a force for good?
Questioning how celebrity architects have used their power
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FeaturesLight fittings by Modular Lighting Instruments
The first UK commercial use of Iwasaki’s Cera Arc Natural Red metal halide uplighter.
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FeaturesPost-war trio embodies future hopes
Rogers, Foster and Stirling were captured in this photo at the RA’s biggest postwar architecture show in 1986
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FeaturesKeeping dry
Products for protecting building surfaces from moisture penetration were launched at last month’s 100% Detail by NanoTech.