All Archive Titles articles – Page 41
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Archive TitlesWork in progress
Future City Experiment and Utopia in Architecture, 1956-2006, Barbican Art Gallery, 15 June to 17 September
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In my opinion
When Frank Lloyd Wright drew flying saucers over Broadacre City, he could have been suggesting he was a far-sighted futuristic visionary. The humour that led him, giving evidence on oath, to describe his occupation as "the world's greatest living architect" might lead one to assume the former. Corb's vision ...
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Archive TitlesNip and tuck
Brady Mallalieu's imaginative approach to problem solving has produced a neat little development between twin rows of back gardens in London.
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Archive TitlesWhat is the orange monster?
The Miniatora, that's what. The name is a reference to the mythical animal that is half bull, half human. This small tower is part stage, part city intervention. Dance company CandoCo wanted to invade London with its choreography - the Miniatora, designed by Studio Egret West, is a key part ...
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Migrating swans
land each winter in the Fens having flown thousands of miles from Russia and Iceland. Waiting for them are hundreds of bird watchers who will now be able to perch their binoculars in a new visitors' centre designed by Allies and Morrison (see page 30). Like Hopkins Architects' pavilion in ...
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Archive TitlesJohn McAslan
Architect of the Camden Roundhouse extension John McAslan went for the laid-back approach - at least until he got to the opening party
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Who'll get your vote?
The three candidates for the post of RIBA president are all, as you would expect, highly qualified, highly experienced people. Here and overleaf we present their CVs and their priorities if they get the top job and we compare their views issue by issue.
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Archive TitlesFolding universe
Building structures that change their form is one of those smart ideas that wow design engineers, but can it really work in architecture? Designer Chuck Hoberman certainly thinks so and is busily developing functional applications to prove it.
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Archive TitlesFiery genius
On receiving the RIBA's Royal Gold Medal in 1881, George Godwin, the tireless editor of The Builder, announced that he would finance a bursary enabling its holders to travel abroad to study new developments in planning, construction or sanitation.
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Archive TitlesFantasy island
Terry Pawson's new offices turn their backs on Hammersmith to create a private world where you could almost imagine work as a glamorous lifestyle.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Dubai
As we descended over the desert, I strained in my seat to catch the first glimpse of a city I have heard described as a Mecca to modernism.
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Archive TitlesPFI in the dock
Last month the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons investigated the disastrous attempt to build a PFI hospital at Paddington Basin in London. This followed the National Audit Office's scathing report on how £14.9m of taxpayers' money was spent getting nowhere. Evidence was called from the heads of ...
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Archive TitlesCircus comes to town
Roll up, roll up! The circus, and all its past incarnations, is in town and you'll be glad to know there is a lot more to it than red and white stripy tents and curly moustaches.
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Chips with everything
The potato is a versatile vegetable but this is possibly the first time it has been used to explain advanced architectural theory. Be sure you know your Pringle from your corn chip.
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Archive TitlesNuclear Capability
The Duchess of Northumberland's Alnwick Garden is a riot of exuberance amid the serenity of a Capability Brown landscape. Perhaps that's why Hopkins Architects played safe with its visitor centre. By Jan-Carlos Kucharek. Photographs: Paul Tyagi
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Peter Zumthor
The Swiss architect will be giving the Annual Architecture Lecture on 3 July at the Royal Academy.
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Archive TitlesAny bright ideas?
What would make your design shine? Architects often struggle to find a light that does the right thing in their spaces. Hours are spent designing a light, talking to manufacturers about getting it made and negotiating with the cost consultant to ensure it stays within the specification. Now the RIBA ...
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Archive TitlesZaha's all Wright
There aren't many people in the world who would attempt to contain Zaha Hadid. Had he been alive, Frank Lloyd Wright may well have been one of them. "Zaha said she didn't believe the building was fluid," says assistant architectural curator at the New York Guggenheim, Monica Ramirez-Montagut. "She pinpointed ...
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What we did for the Romans
Paternoster House, designed by Sidell Gibson Architects to the masterplan of Sir William Whitfield, was completed in 2003 as part of the total redevelopment of Paternoster Square, a sensitive site next to St Paul’s Cathedral in London.