All Features articles – Page 245

  • A late change to Foster & Partners' proposals for the Smithsonian Institute were easily handled by custom-written computer code.
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    Self-help group

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Franks Gehry’s technological arm has called on UK architects to form a ‘digital ecosystem’ for mutual benefit

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    A Neutral course

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Architectural film-maker and animator Neutral is to show its Place to Passage installation at Eero Saarinen’s TWA terminal at JFK Airport, New York, during November.

  • The unreconstructed Frauenkirche at Dresden before the stones were sorted and catalogued.
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    Clues from the past

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Work on Dresden’s Frauenkirche and the Sagrada Família have been aided by software that suggest their architects’ intentions.

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    Vintage clients

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Are good clients born or do they develop over time like a fine wine?

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    The Charettes

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    By Robert Thompson

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    Tony Fretton

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

    BooksI am reading the A+U on Peter Zumthor, a book of detailed photographs of Gaudí’s Casa Mila, Eileen Harris’s book, The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors, the Netherlands Architecture Institute’s The Dutch Domestic Scene and Aalto’s complete work. There’s also a Dutch dictionary to help with my language classes, ...

  • The Charettes
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    The Charettes

    2004-10-15T00:00:00Z

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    The Charettes

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

  • Renato Benedetti
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    Renato Benedetti

    2004-10-08T00:00:00Z

    BooksDavid Remnick’s King of the World revealed the socio-political context of Muhammad Ali’s greatness — will any future athlete affect politics and society so profoundly? I’m now reading Peter Robb’s Midnight in Sicily before visiting the island. Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography and Clerkenwell Tales are a fabulously full evocation ...

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    The Charettes

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    By Robert Thompson

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    Sharp End: Joining forces

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Even before Gordon Brown pledged £43 billion of increased funding for education and healthcare, we at Llewelyn Davies were seeking to exploit our reputation in the healthcare market and expand into the burgeoning schools sector.

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    The Charettes

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    By Robert Thompson

  • This drawing was created in ArchiCad version 9. Note that shadows can be altered to reflect different sun positions and reflections in windows.
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    Switching on to a new cad program

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Graphisoft has just launched version 9 of its ArchiCad design and modelling package. Here, two users check it out and give us their verdictsGraphisoft has just launched version 9 of its ArchiCad design and modelling package. Here, two users check it out and give us their verdicts

  • A prototype house was built in just hours at the Pace Timber Systems manufacturing plant in Milton Keynes.
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    DIY for architects

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Fed up and frustrated with the lack of integrated building systems, Cartwright Pickard formed a brave new business venture with a manufacturer to simplify housebuilding.

  • Daniel Libeskind
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    Daniel Libeskind

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Daniel Libeskind has curated a season of films for the Barbican to tie in with the exhibition of his work. He explains his choices.

  • The Charrettes
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    The Charettes

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

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    The Charettes

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  • Michael Manser
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    Michael Manser

    2004-09-03T00:00:00Z

    BooksI read a lot and in recent months biographies of notables in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Four biographies of Wren, the best His Invention So Fertile by Adrian Tinniswood ; two of Pepys; also of John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, luminaries of the American bid for independence. Both ...

  • The Charettes
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    The Charettes

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    Sharp End: Techno teamwork

    2004-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Picture the scene: the first technical meeting for the new project. The typical opening gambit is “which version of AutoCAD will you use to send us your files?” Oh, come on. Why do we always have to use the lowest common denominator? Doesn’t everyone realise this is an inefficient use ...