All Review articles – Page 109

  • High life: Alan Yentob admires the view from New York’s Chrysler Building.
    Review

    Sheer height inspiriation

    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Pamela Buxton previews a BBC series on tall buildings

  • Their glass and steel Outhouse sculpture-cum-pavilion, which opens in Liverpool next Friday.
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    Don’t throw stones

    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    A glass depiction of a Liverpool terraced house has been created by Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier

  • Architectural inspiration: Richard Alston Dance Company
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    Dance and me

    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    I was interested in contemporary dance before my practice set up at London’s Riverside Studios.

  • the cover of Ronchamp, published in 1957.
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    Corbs covers

    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Huge amounts have been written about Le Corbusier, but rarely about his work as a book designer and author, an activity he devoted himself to until his death in 1965.

  • Iconic meaning — Disney Concert Hall as Marilyn Monroe’s skirt.
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    Metaphor writ large

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Kester Rattenbury talks to Charles Jencks about his provocative new book on iconic buildings

  • One of Lucy Orta’s Totipotent Architecture steel and crystal sculptures.
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    Making connections

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Chris Hall considers architectural meaning in Lucy Orta’s work

  • Since 2002, Stephen Gill has photographed the backs of about 100 billboards.
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    Billboards and me

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    I’ve always enjoyed lifting up carpets and looking behind things, and a lot of my photography is about looking at day-to-day things differently to how they are presented.

  • M3 Architects
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    Designing out apathy

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    With voter indifference to next week’s general election threatening to deliver the lowest turnout in modern times , we asked six architects for their visions of how architecture can strengthen the democratic process

  • A Mercedes Gullwing
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    Inspiration: Winging it

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    Picasso had one and so did Tony Curtis.

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    Heavy industry

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    The water towers, silos and blast furnaces of heavy industry have provided rich material for photographic artists Bernd and Hilla Becher for more than 45 years. Initially focusing on the industrial terrain of the Siegerland in Germany, they have expanded their geographical remit over the decades but always with the ...

  • 100 Chairs at Cube: popular but no longer according with the funding agenda.
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    Centres without a compass

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    Following the difficulties at Cube, Peter Wilson predicts an uncertain future for architecture centres seeking to bridge the gap between commerce and culture

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    Who cares about the Smithsons any way?

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    Has the brutalist duo’s influence been overstated

  • Murray’s ticket booth for Edinburgh Castle.
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    Inspiration

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Allan Murray

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    The dreamer

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Charles Robert Cockerell, 19th century architect, archaeologist and former RIBA president, is the latest Royal Academician to be featured in an exhibition at the academy.

  • Curly wurly: Heatherwick’s rolling bridge, at Paddington Basin, in closed position.
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    Crazy... but it just might work

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Ellen Bennett heard Thomas Heatherwick talk about his practice

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    Reduced circumstances

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    The problem with this study of minimalism is what it leaves out

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    Inspiration: Dance stance

    2005-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Last summer, our office was shortlisted to participate in a series of cultural projects throughout France. Meanwhile, Cécile Brisac and I chose to take on another very important project — the painting of our one-year-old son’s bedroom.

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    Get the most from your coast

    2005-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow’s Lighthouse asked five practices to look at Scotland’s 6,000-mile coastline.

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    Visualising Africas hopes

    2005-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Robert Booth visits Africa Remix at the Hayward Gallery

  • Mirror Knife Edge (1977) on the forecourt of IM Pei’s  National Gallery east wing in Washington DC.
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    Putting lipstick on the gorilla

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Despite his better judgment, Henry Moore produced many architectural collaborations