All From the Archive articles – Page 13
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FeaturesBanking on international markets
Tales of a different recession from 1982, when borrowing was also a big issue for architectural start-ups such as that of Robin Spence and Robin Webster
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FeaturesFoster’s familiar tune
“Are we ruthless or just consistent?” Foster pondered in a BD interview that described him as the first architect since Lutyens to have achieved “acclaimed buildings and a large and expanding workload”
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FeaturesPioneer spirit meets polyurethane
We look back to the heady days of the 1970s energy crisis, when hand-crafting your own home out of super-insulating foam was the way to go in Wisconsin
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FeaturesLesser known Price in the long grass
This week we ask for BD readers to turn sleuth and help identify the mystery man in an undated photo from our Cedric Price archive
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FeaturesBetjeman summoned by books
Poet laureate John Betjeman visited the opening of the RIBA Bookshop by Garnett Cloughly Blakemore in 1975 — and luckily his own wares were on display.
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FeaturesRole of tomb paintings in the life of Riley
BD’s Douglas Stephen interviewed Bridget Riley in 1984 on the occasion of her show at the RIBA about her work at the Royal Liverpool Hospital
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Features(Re)store no more
As Woolworths shuts up shop for the last time, we cast our minds back to Andrew Rabeneck’s restoration of the firm’s 54-storey New York HQ in 1980
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Features1980s yuppies at play
When the refurbishment of some Turkish baths in Motherwell led to speculation about the outcome of the 1983 general election
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FeaturesAll the fun of the peer
Brighton’s West Pier is getting a makeover courtesy of Marks Barfield Architects. BD looks back to its 1967 heyday
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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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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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FeaturesBacks to the Wall
An MP, a punk famous for a song about crisps, his dog, and a comic immortal — what were they doing outside the Woolwich Tram Shed in 1980?
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FeaturesBayley’s white-hot design cauldron
Stephen Bayley plots our design future from his V&A bunker in 1982
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FeaturesFuller so well read
BD has always attracted a better class of reader, and here’s the proof: Buckminster Fuller talking to our then editor, Clem Shepherd, at the BD launch party in 1970
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FeaturesWinds of change
With talks about the Design Museum’s new home under way, we look back to the opening of its present building by architect Conran Roche in 1989
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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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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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FeaturesWelcome to the pleasure dome
His eye-catching dome at the 1967 Montréal Expo almost certainly nudged the RIBA into honouring Buckminster Fuller the following year
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FeaturesLipton takes his development to the top
In the 1980s building boom, developer Stuart Lipton was king, and Thatcher was his queen
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FeaturesRemembrance of building slumps past
As the economy moves towards recession, BD remembers a previous Labour government grappling with the same issue