All Practices articles – Page 18
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FeaturesLoyd Grossman
‘We have a legacy of fabulous work in Liverpool' says the chairman of Liverpool's national museum's trust
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NewsExclusive: Zaha’s UK debut
Next Friday, chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown will open Zaha Hadid’s first building to be completed in the UK.
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Building StudyMaggies Centre, Kirkcaldy by Zaha Hadid
A Maggie’s cancer care centre in the grounds of a Kirkcaldy hospital is Zaha Hadid’s first UK building. Ellis Woodman finds it takes excellent advantage of a quirky site to create architecture of a very high order.
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NewsA new face for London
As London’s first design director, Peter Bishop wants to engage public debate over the way the city looks and works.
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FeaturesIlse Crawford
‘Every-thing has to come from the same place’ says the director of Studio Ilse
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FeaturesHow the grandmaster rewrote the rules
Ove Arup’s previously unexplored archive sheds light on his life-long mission to transform the traditional architect/engineer relationship, writes his biographer Peter Jones
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FeaturesInvention or discovery?
Before his talk this week at the Royal Academy, Kester Rattenbury met Peter Zumthor, the architect’s architect, to discover how he mixes reputation, integrity and theory at his 15-strong studio in Switzerland
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NewsQuick off the blocks
Breakaway practice Metropolitan Workshop is doing so well, it was a year before it had time for a launch party.
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NewsChipperfield's class act for Candy bros
UK favourite comes home for luxury Kensington apartment project
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Building StudyDes Moines Library by David Chipperfield
Ellis Woodman explores the enigmatic exteriors and lucid interiors of Chipperfield’s Des Moines Library
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NewsInternational brigade
Undeterred by the British weather, foreign architects are filling London offices as never before. As a BD survey uncovers the true extent of this influx, architects from six continents tell their stories. Interviews by Zoë Blackler. Photograph by Ed Tyler
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FeaturesHeads in the clouds
Delugan Meissl's architecture seeks to defy gravity. Ahead of a UK tour of its work next month, Zoë Blackler pays a visit to the new darlings of the Austrian scene
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NewsBack in the thick of it
Jon Rouse has gone quiet since joining the Housing Corporation, but now with a merger looming and design quality on the agenda, there's no holding him back
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NewsChipperfield's Berlin walls
David Chipperfield this week revealed new details of his firm's epic restoration of the Neues Museum in Berlin, including these designs for rebuilding the central staircase.
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ReviewWolf in sheep's clothing
Coop Himmelb(l)au's arrival within the establishment has not mellowed it, Wolf Prix tells Zoë Blackler
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NewsZaha does Beirut
Zaha Hadid Architects was celebrating again this week following its latest international win - a new project for the American University of Beirut.
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NewsThe lightness of being Ito
RIBA Gold Medal winner Toyo Ito is architecture's impossible dreamer who takes every project in a new direction.