All Review articles – Page 105

  • Cover from the Penguin edition of Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: “architects don’t have much idea of the life of people who put up their buildings”.
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    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and me

    2005-11-18T00:00:00Z

    One lunch hour in the summer of 1971 I wandered into Central Books in Holborn and picked up a copy of a book with a picture of a builder on the front cover written by Robert Tressell. It was called The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, priced 15 shillings.

  • Canary Wharf Station, 2005, by Poppy de Villeneueve.
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    Fostering a new photography

    2005-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Charlie Gates applauds a different approach to capturing architecture

  • The City Car could be picked up and dropped off at dedicated ranks, and stacked to save space. This version is by Franco Vairani.
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    Reinventing the wheel

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Bill Mitchell’s City Car could liberate urban design

  • Despite its proximity to central London, the Lower Lea Valley is known for its biodiversity
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    Lower Lea Valley and me

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Before we worked together on projects, Stephen Witherford and I used to regularly walk around several areas of London in the early morning.

  • Frank Lloyd Wright’s office in Park Oak Studio.
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    Frankly speaking

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    A new book on Frank Lloyd Wright tackles fears that he is no longer relevant.

  • The Unknowns (this is no 14) drift back and forward between figuration and abstraction.
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    Venture into the Unknowns

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Neave Brown leaves architecture far behind in his latest exhibition of etchings.

  • Helen & Hard makes use of all available resources,including construction workers’ cabins for housing in the B-Camp project, Stavenger.
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    On the Nordic trail

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    A new show promotes Norway’s architecture, but it is the architects that really sell it.

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    Living in the trees

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Frivolous and delightful, escapist and ingenious, the treehouse makes an enjoyable subject for celebration in a new book.

  • The glory years: Liverpool players celebrate winning the European Cup.
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    Football and me

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    James Weston

  • Inspirational: conference room scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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    Saul Metzstein: Kubrick and me

    2005-10-28T00:00:00Z

    I trained as an architect and am now a film director, but I have never felt any confusion between the two disciplines.

  • A 1950s suburban living room
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    Suburban evolution

    2005-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Rebecca Preston reviews an exhibition charting how suburbia has responded to social change

  • Alain Bublex’s Archigram-inspired Plug-In City.
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    The city never sleeps

    2005-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Architecture dominates the Deptford X festival

  • Philip Glass: unique achievements.
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    Philip Glass and me

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    I am inspired by music generally, and Philip Glass in particular. Architects, I think, traditionally listened to music while drawing.

  • Tschumi gave a stunning presentation on Parc de la Villette.
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    Tschumi faces the family

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Helen Castle watched Parc de la Villette receive the Supercrit treatment

  • Kisa Kawakami: came to England from Japan in the 1970s and began experimenting with art as a process of self discovery.
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    Enchanting the forest

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    James Rose meets architect Kisa Kawakami, creator of the latest art installation at Kielder Park

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    The China syndrome

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    China has the tools to lead the world in sustainable development, but will it use them?

  • The De La Warr Pavilion in the 1930s. The ninth earl of De La Warr wanted a building on the seafront that would benefit locals residents and encourage tourism.
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    De La Warr: the fall and rise

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The De La Warr Pavilion reopens this week after a 14 year restoration by John McAslan & Partners. Here, those most involved with the seminal building over 70 years tell the story of its chequered fortunes

  • Crowd control: National Day celebration in Tiananmen Square, October 1, 1952, the same decade that author Wu Hung travelled in hunger to take part in its “displays of people”
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    All sides of the square

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Tiananmen Square was bound up with political power long before the massacre

  • Blond girl on a bed, by Lucien Freud, 1987.
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    Lucien Freud and me

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    I like Lucien Freud.He is my hero because he is so brilliant at life drawing and I do a lot of life drawing — something completely flowing like that is so different from working on a building with a computer and very hard lines.

  • Do you expect me to talk? Ken Adam’s design for the laser room in the James Bond film Goldfinger.
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    Creator of the Bond look

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Charlie Gates looks at Ken Adam’s influential film production design