All Archive Titles articles – Page 31
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Archive TitlesHerts and minds
The importance of what Reyner Banham described as the memorability of the building as image to the furtherance of architectural reputations is well demonstrated by the history of post-war British school building.
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Reducing solar heat gain
It’s good to see that it has dawned on the likes of David Chipperfield that you can reduce solar heat gain by reducing window area (Palace of Justice, Barcelona, RIBAJ Nov 06).
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Space exploration
For Louis Kahn a school was ‘an environment of spaces where it was good to learn’. How can designers of today’s urban schools create these spaces?
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Archive TitlesOn the campaign trail
Our honorary fellow, Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas, is a friend and supporter of Britain and of the RIBA, and gave a keynote address at our conference in Venice. So, when I was invited to the opening of his exhibition at MAXXI in Rome, it was my turn to support him.
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Bureaucracy gone mad
I recently came across my old copy of the 1972 Building Regulations, a pocket-sized volume that contained all you needed to know. Comparison with the present unwieldy version exemplifies the unnecessary complication which has occurred over the years in the legislation architects have to deal with.
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Hold the back page
I have just received the December issue and am delighted to see that the articles by Robert Elwall have been reinstated to the back page where they once appeared before the introduction of that absurd series of (often bad) photographs purporting to offer us the diary of some architect, ...
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The size of the educational building programme that we are experiencing is astonishing.
In anybody’s money, the £45bn Building Schools for the Future programme is huge. But the evidence we have of the latest wave of school building is that quality is patchy, to say the least. There are some shining examples. There are also plenty of embarrassments.
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Top 50 name-check
Our client the Joseph Rowntree Foundation was number 30 in your top 50 clients (RIBAJ Nov 06), and you mentioned a project we won last year.
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Looking back on 45 years
As I contemplate retirement, I ask myself if I have made real money in the 45 years since becoming a member of the RIBA? Probably not, but my practice has given employment to a 100 or so architects and support staff, creating much wealth and satisfaction for clients.
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Michael Laird Partnership’s £35m Lochrin Basin residential development in Edinburgh,
which has just gained planning permission, represents the future of waterside regeneration as the British Waterways Board (BWB) struggles with a massive shortfall in government funding.
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Archive TitlesFriends for life
Reiach and Hall’s latest addition to St George’s School for Girls in Edinburgh is a continuation of a 40-year relationship. By Jan-Carlos Kucharek. Photographs: Paul Zanre
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Archive TitlesSure touch
Client St Anne’s Sure Start Community CentreArchitect DSDHAStructural engineer Jane Wernick AssociatesServices engineer Pearce & AssociatesQuantity surveyor Faithful & Gould
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Archive TitlesBreaking the rules
Birmingham has the biggest schools building programme in the UK. It recently ran a brainstorming session on the design direction this might take, and it’s not playing safe. By Hugh Pearman. Photographs: Sima Gonsia
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Archive TitlesNot in front of the children
Caruso St John’s drawings for the revamped V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green shocked on first viewing. Now that the work is done, it’s time for a more adult response to its provocative ornamentalism.
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People: Bob White appointed Constructing Excellence chairman
Also: Bennetts Associates promotes David Henderson to director and appoints new associate directors
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'We don't just talk about about architecture'
Trust, friendship and learning together are behind the success of a mentoring relationship that has spanned two decades.
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People: Glenn Howells made chair of Ikon Gallery
Also SMC Parr promotes Neil Davidson and Derek Reid to the board while Nicola Willliams joins GMW Architects
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Archive Titles‘Utopia’
The swansong of the old visual arts (and architecture) unit at the Arts Council of England is a report on Gateshead’s housing development by former fashion designers Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway.
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Archive TitlesMinority report
Vanishing Tradition: Architecture and Carpentry of the Dong Minority of China