All Features articles – Page 214
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FeaturesSporting attitudes
Staging the 2012 Olympics will be the ultimate team event, but the architects who won stadium gold are sportingly well qualified. Plus, Peter Cook is proving a vital player
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FeaturesI’m starting a new job but my employer hasn’t given me any kind of contract
I recently qualified and I am about to start a new job as an architect. The firm I am going to is small, with only two partners, and I don’t think they have employed anyone before. I start work next week but I haven’t actually been asked to sign an ...
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FeaturesStanton Williams are all at sea
‘A boat club a few blocks away is giving us kayaking lessons’
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The numbers game: 80,000
Up to 80,000 extra hotel rooms will be needed in London by 2026 according to the mayor — quite a challenge as the capital had just 83,382 in 2006.
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FeaturesThe Bartlett’s blog
The Barlett selects its own highlights from its summer show, which this year included work from over 450 students.
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FeaturesAberdeen University blog
Images from the degree show at the Scott Sutherland school of architecture and built environment at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University.
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What we've been enjoying on YouTube
Seen something you like on the web? Send us a link to bdonline@cmpi.bizAnimated film of Rem Koolhaas' CCTV buildingPeter Markli's La Congiunta museum in GiornicoLina Bo Bardi's Museu de Arte de São Paulo Frank Llloyd Wright talks about the Marin Civic Centre (1958 film)Festival of Britain footage (1951)
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FeaturesBristol block of flats nominated for the Carbuncle Cup
Andrew Lynch has nominated Wallace Place on Granby Hill in Bristol. Originally designed by HLN of Cardiff, it was finished off by ESHA Architects. The developer was Edward Ware Homes."This block of flats is a carbuncle that diminishes the Regency terrace next to it," Lynch writes. "Poor detail design on ...
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FeaturesGrand masters
Wouldn’t you love the chance to pick the brains of your architectural hero? Here, four young practices explain what made them seize that opportunity
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup: The spotlight shifts to Birmingham
Deb Adams has nominated two Birmingham buildings, David McLean's Masshouse and John Rocha's Orion building
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Features60 seconds with...Kevin McClellan, project architect for the Serpentine pre-pavilion
McClellan, project architect behind Zaha Hadid's Serpentine pavilion - the setting for tonight's glamorous summer party - takes a break from preparations to speak to Elaine Knutt
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FeaturesLincoln School of Architecture blog
A glass recycling centre, a prison and a surf shack are among the third year studio projects completed at Lincoln this year
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FeaturesPortsmouth University blog
The landscape of Hampshire's chalk downlands and the Roman city inform Portsmouth students' explorations of landscape and urbanism, writes Hannah Young
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FeaturesWalking to World’s End
Eric Lyons returned to his Chelsea scheme in 1977 to see if the experiment in high-density housing was working
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FeaturesShould I let clients with adjacent properties have one contract for work on both?
We have two clients. Client A owns the freehold to two adjacent properties. Client B owns the leasehold to one of those properties.
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Features60 seconds with Stephen Proctor
The chair of the RIBA's housing group explains the thinking behind the institute's new space standards
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FeaturesGreenwich University's summer show blog
Greenwich contributes to our summer show blog with student work inspired by Farnsworth House, World War II bunkers in Harwich and the Ledbury Estate