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FeaturesStudent shows blog
Over the next few weeks architecture schools around the country will be posting images of their student shows. See the first contribution from Greenwich University.
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FeaturesReader riled by Kaplicky’s helihome
An early design by Future Systems leads to a complaint of pornography
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This year's top students
Our search has begun to find the brightest architecture students graduating this year. The heads of the architecture schools will be nominating their best final year student and we will be judging the entries next month with the results published later in the summer.
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Visiting tutor Shaun Murray's brief to Brighton diploma students
The medium is the message in Shaun Murray's Surrealist brief for Brighton diploma students, nominated by Bruce Caldwell. Unintelligable in places, it needs to be read in full to appreciate the full, rambling horrror. Click on the link below for Murray's "Landings" brief
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FeaturesThe results of our Smoking Shed Challenge
View all the winning entries in our competition to design a good-looking smoking shed in the run-up to the smoking ban
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FeaturesTwinkle twinkle
Zaha Hadid and Peter Smithson were among the stars who gathered for the Celebration of Architecture in Cumbria in 1984
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When does a client have ‘consumer’ status?
The Domestic Project Pack issued by the RIBA states that a client who is having work carried out on his property assumes the status of a “consumer”. If a domestic client has two properties, but resides only in one, how would the practice of an architect be different with respect ...
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FeaturesCan we avoid hiring lawyers?
Laura Atherton gives some wise advice to practices wanting to negotiate their own appointments without professional legal help
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FeaturesTraditional Smoking Shelter by Peter Francis
Peter Francis' traditional smoking shelter designs seats between 15 and 22 people and is around 4 x 5m by 2m high and can be constructed in a range of materials.
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FeaturesBar Toke by Lewis and Hickey
Lewis and Hickey’s sunken garden aims to create a beautiful and dynamic exterior room, “a relaxing and contemplative environment resplendent with foliage and running water”.
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FeaturesMush-Room by Lewis and Hickey
Mush-Room is a demountable, easy to erect exterior function room. The structure would be heated and could include up-lighting and a floor plinth for cabling.
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FeaturesThe Modular Smoking Shelter by RGC Partnership
In order to design a smoking shelter which is at least 50% open to the elements and yet still maintains a level of enclosure and protection to its users, the RGC Partnership has used a louvered façade system. The modular smoking shelter can be prefabricated and installed quickly in a ...
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FeaturesSmoking Tube by George Sneghkin
The idea behind the Smoking Tube by George Sneghkin, a Russian architect living in St Petersburg, was, he says “to create a space, a simple one, that somehow would celebrate the very smoking process”.The smoking tube will give protection to people outside of it as well as uniting those within ...
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FeaturesSmoking Shed by The Intervention
The Intervention’s proposal creates a smoking “zone” centred on an oversized, picturesque, 2400x900mm planter box with a sand trough behind it to collect cigarette butts. The size of the planter relates to a standard car space (2.4 x 4.8m) so that as much car parking is retained.The planter box acts ...
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Seductive Smoking by Tim Stephens
“Who says smoking isn't sexy,” says Tim Stephens. His smoking shelter promises to embody all that is seductive provocative in the art of smoking. With an aesthetic, he calls “reminiscent of a fine cigarette” the exterior shell, constructed of ply laminate, wraps around the space. The interior is constructed of ...
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FeaturesCloud Cover by Grant Nahorniak
An interactive artform, Cloud Cover provides both shelter and a place to meet people for smokers and non-smokers alike. The cloud is made from a formed clear plastic, and from its suspended position collects smoke from the smokers below to create an almost child like depiction of a cloud ...
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FeaturesPlaylist: More songs about cities
Jon-Marc Creaney of GCA Architects wins a iTunes music token for his selection of songs about cities
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FeaturesSeductive Smoking by Tim Stephens
“Who says smoking isn't sexy,” says Tim Stephens. His smoking shelter promises to embody all that is seductive provocative in the art of smoking.