All Archive Titles articles – Page 43
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Archive TitlesSunny side up
Niall Mclaughlin Architects' symbolically rich, culturally ambitious Hull Architecture Centre is an expression of faith in the resurgence of a once-great city.
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Archive TitlesPull the plug
The digital revolution is coming, but wire-free doesn't mean you can chuck the ducts just yet. And if you want to keep your hotspots discreet, you'll need to watch fit-out materials. Here's how.
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Archive TitlesParting shot
There's food for body and soul as Renato Benedetti scoots between home, Clerkenwell office and London Biennale competition judging
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Archive TitlesLost world
Illustrated principally with beautifully reproduced photographs from the Alkazi Collection, this sumptuous book reveals more about late 18th century and 19th century architecture and urbanism and the camera's response to these subjects than its concentration on a single city might suggest.
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Archive TitlesNew roles for loos
A great British institution gets a new lease of life in an ideas competition sponsored by RIBA Journal.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Scotland
Outside BDP's Perth concert hall before the 2006 RIAS conference, everyone's talking about one thing - the sunshine. It's 10.30am and we've all deserted the grandiose foyer for this charming public space. The debates are inside, but we choose to enjoy the thick coolness of the stones.
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Archive TitlesRIBA Trust - do you know what it is?
But before the RIBA Trust, last year's Constructive Change report criticised the RIBA for ‘being out of touch with its members and the wider industry.
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Archive TitlesGrand stands
The phrase ‘genius loci' is most often applied to locales such as gardens, but is it also appropriate for football grounds? As a series of new stadiums comes on line, Arsenal's manager, Arsène Wenger, recently admitted his players would miss the inspiration provided by the art deco surroundings of Highbury ...
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Archive TitlesFruit of the forest
Studio Downie's centre for the Cass Sculpture Foundation nestles discreetly among the artworks dotted around its woodland site.
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Archive TitlesLearning curves
Wind your way along the London Architecture Biennale route this month and you will come across all manner of live projects that are the fruit of student efforts to understand the realities of building. It could even be the way of architectural education to come.
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Archive TitlesSkip the chores
Software advances have liberated design imagination, so why are architects still enslaved by the door schedule?
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Snoops' charter
Big Brother type surveillance is so last century. Governments don't need their own Thought Police any more - big business can provide all the information they need.
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Archive TitlesThe new black
Project Orange had to fight free of Sheffield's ubiquitous red brick for its first new build. The result is a sophisticated little black number.
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Archive TitlesYour say
Laundry and architecture happen fast in China, as Stephen Chance finds on trip to look at regeneration projects for London practice PTE
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Archive TitlesReview
UN Studio By Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, Thames & Hudson, £36, Review by Jan-Carlos Kucharek
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In my opinion
Driving across Switzerland recently I happened on a sign for Salginatobel.