All Archive Titles articles – Page 44
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Archive TitlesDouble first
Oliver Chapman Architects' modest semis on the edge of a Borders village could prove to be a prototype for sustainable rural housing.
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Enter the dragon
China is notorious for its polluted cities and frenetic urban growth driven by huge population drift from the countryside. There's a lot riding on an Arup masterplan for a post-industrial, sustainable model city near Shanghai.
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Archive TitlesHappiness per hectare
If housing density was defined by rooms rather than dwellings per hectare, it could have huge implications for development. Rather than cramming couples into tiny boxes, we could create city places that would draw families back from the suburbs.
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Archive TitlesHome rules
Take one volume housebuilder, a large D&B scheme and three architects, and what do you get? Some fine, and very well behaved, housing. Main photographs: Peter Cook/view
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The waste of life
When the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse does finally come pounding over the Earth, he'll have to be careful not to trip over the huge piles of detritus we're leaving behind.
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Archive TitlesMartial lore
Make's first built project responds to its tough location with a combination of strength and gentleness worthy of a black belt.
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Archive TitlesPeace offering
Such was the richness of their country's architectural heritage that Italian modernist architects were frequently required to make an accommodation with the past.
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In my opinion
Driving across Switzerland recently I happened on a sign for Salginatobel.
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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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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 TitlesClients with ambition
RIBAJ is launching the hunt for the UK's top clients. We are looking for those clients with ambition who consistently commission good architecture and are prepared to take risks.
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Bay watch
Disposing of people into black holes has many advantages for desperate rulers, but the greatest convenience of all is that these dens of degradation are invisible to scrutiny.
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Archive TitlesBeauty and the beasts
The kitsch excesses of the Victorians made decoration a dirty word, and the triviality of many early postmodernists didn't do the cause any favours either. But the austerity of modernism has held sway long enough. It's time to decriminalise ornament.
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Optimism and belief in change...
...for the better underpinned the work of the great modernist architects.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Lord Heseltine
Now heading the Conservative Party's Cities Task Force, Lord Heseltine is revisiting urban policy two decades after he took on Docklands and Toxteth.
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Archive TitlesBuilt to last
Time-based architecture Edited by Bernard Leupen, Rene Heijne and Jasper010 Publishers£20Review by Alex MowatCan some buildings be called ‘time-based' and others not? I have always considered that buildings are created, occupied, adapted and changed with use and age. So it was with some scepticism that I opened a book called ...
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Archive TitlesPostcard from Cannes
Sean Griffiths of FAT went to Mipim, courtesy of RIBA Journal and the Architecture Foundation's Next Generation Award, to show commercial developers what younger practices have to offer. So how ws it for him?