All Archive Titles articles – Page 44
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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Archive TitlesTight corner
Munkenbeck + Marshall was forced to pack a lot into these mixed-tenure flats on a small site in inner London. The dramatic balconies are their saving grace.
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Archive TitlesChips with everything
Walker Simpson's library and sixth form college for a deprived part of Manchester aims to nourish its users in more ways than one.
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Letter from Chatham
English Heritage says heritage can be the soul of the Thames Gateway.
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Archive TitlesAfter Holyrood
Architecture in Scotland 2004-2006: Defining Place, Edited by Morag Bain, The Lighthouse, £9.99 Review by Mark Cousins
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Archive TitlesTravel show
Weston Williamson's four new stations for the Docklands Light Railway make a point of engaging with their surroundings - as well as London City Airport.
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Archive TitlesSpeed reads
Ends, Middles, Beginnings: Edward Cullinan ArchitectsBy Jonathan Hale Black Dog Publishing, £29.95Edward Cullinan Architects is not known for courting publicity or being a follower of fashion. Its designs have tended to roll with rather than against the tide of public opinion and the practice has a reputation for pragmatic, principled ...
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Archive TitlesThe outsiders
In 1936 the landscape architect Geoffrey Jellicoe complained that ‘the modern architect will see the house as a white bird descended from the sky and parked upon the green fields'.
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In my opinion
Twenty years ago, when I was doing the Billingsgate market conversion to a financial trading building, the faint aroma of 100 years of frozen prawns defrosting in the brick-vaulted basements still hung around as I took one of the Stateside chiefs of Citibank for a tour.
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Archive TitlesWhite noise
Many architects would love to get their hands on a car design studio, and many would over-egg it. Moxon's restraint makes its white machine all the more powerful.
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Archive TitlesNeighbourhood watch
Privacy is at a premium in Peter Barber's reworking of the terrace. Passers-by can gaze in, and residents are positively encouraged to peer out. Photographs: Morley von Sternberg
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Archive TitlesPoetry in motion
Ken Livingstone's London offices will soon be alight with some of the best Nobel-prize winning poetry of the past 100 years.