All Review articles – Page 26
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Studio In The Woods 2011
Last weekend – while muggles all over the land flocked to cinemas to see the final Harry Potter film – on a little Isle (of Wight) a short swim away, gathered 60 magical architecture creatures for their annual timber-play ritual
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Cultural Guide- July 18-24
This week’s cultural guide opens with an appointment with the Tate Modern’s turbine hall before taking a leisurely trip around the inland waterways of the Midlands.
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A German solution to the challenges facing the NHS
BookConstruction and Design Manual: Medical Practices by Dorte Becker and Philip MeuserDom Publishers, HB, 400 pages, 2010, £59.55In Germany, with the privatisation of healthcare, the role of the doctor has changed in recent years to become that of “health adviser”. With this change “clients” (the new term for patients) have ...
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Should future hospitals be small towns?
A work surveying the design of contemporary healthcare facilities posits hospitals as civic spaces but misses a few key examples
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Diener & Diener monograph
A monograph showcasing 40 of the Swiss practice’s works attests to its urban engagement
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La Spezia hospital by Hopkins Architects
Associate partner Laura Carrara-Cagni on the practice’s designs for a new hospital at La Spezia in the Liguria region of Italy.
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Great Scott! A Gothic reputation is revived
Next week sees the 200th anniversary of George Gilbert Scott’s birth and, with his masterpiece the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras restored, the architect is once more receiving the appreciation he deserves.
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Opening up the envelope for students
Watts’ new book is well suited for both students and young practicing architects.
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Getting right under the skin of modern construction materials
Extensive look at new materials in this Detail edition of the Construction Manual for Polymers & Membranes.
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Junya Ishigami: Architecture as Air
Junya Ishigami’s new show builds a fragile yet compelling vision of the power of the almost imperceptible
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Slogans & Battle cries: ‘Homes for heroes’
Architectural aphorisms explored by Paul Shepheard
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The Vorticists at Tate Britain
The Tate’s exhibition displays the turmoil of England at the start of the Great War
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Max Bill at Annely Juda Fine Art
Max Bill’s art and architecture embodies the optimistic spirit of early modernism
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Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s £65 million Manchester Metropolitan University Business School is now on site.
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Hopkins’ restoration at Nottingham Trent University
A former chemistry laboratory has been converted to an events space as part of Hopkins Architects’ £70 million restoration and extension of two listed buildings at Nottingham Trent University.
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Great Marlborough Street student housing in Manchester by Hodder & Partners
Stephen Hodder discusses how his practice’s new 33-storey housing in Manchester will meet the high expectations of student customers in the city’s second highest tower
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Red brick era proves worth another look
Roger Hawkins and Russell Brown, directors at Hawkins Brown, review books on the work of James Stirling and how space affects teaching in higher education design.
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Pablo Bronstein: Sketches for Regency Living
The Bartlett dropout has subsequently made his name creating assemblages of architectural history. He takes Oliver Wainwright around his ICA show
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Smooth talking
In 1972 BD’s editor met Birmingham’s successful, and expensively tanned, John Madin