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Archive TitlesMods who still rock
The V&A is hoping to teach British architects a lesson in modernism. At the heart of its new show, Modernism: Designing A New World 1914-1939, is a call to remember the principles behind the clean white boxes and ‘less is more'.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Lapland
I'm still getting over the fact that I've probably pumped a tonne and a half of carbon into the atmosphere just getting over here, doing no good to the already reduced snowfall statistics for northern Finland, but a very swift skinnydip into the Arctic waters of the Gulf of Bothnia ...
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Archive TitlesFlush with ideas
London's Southwark council has launched an ideas competition for two key urban sites, now inhabited by dull public toilets.
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Faking it
For years designers have been busily designing daylight out of buildings. Now, they've realised this wasn't such a bright idea and are thinking up some clever ways of getting it back in - even if it's not always strictly natural light.
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Archive TitlesKnock ‘em dead
Balornock Bowling Club by Studio Kap is one of the 80 award winners in the Civic Trust Awards.
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Archive TitlesCollision course
Digital Project is an integrated building information modelling system that can spot potential structure and service clashes early on, saving time and money. But will the adversarial nature of the construction industry stop it from reaching its potential?
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Archive TitlesWhat is on the cards?
The future - at least if you pick the right pack of cards. Arup's chief fortune teller Chris Luebkeman has produced a set of 50 flick cards that look at what might be next in science, technology, political life - anything that might affect your life, in fact.
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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?
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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 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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Optimism and belief in change...
...for the better underpinned the work of the great modernist architects.
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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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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 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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Archive TitlesSpeed reads
‘My light… Dental Hygienist' as a heading doesn't exactly lift the spirits.
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Design codes stifle creativity
It's official. Design codes do not speed up the planning process says Cabe, after two years of monitoring pilot schemes.
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Archive TitlesSpanish squeeze
Grimshaw's cultural centre in A Coruña splits its small footprint in two - crazy, but it works.
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Archive TitlesPerforming seals
Architects specifying stone floors agonise over whether or not they should be sealed. But that's as nothing compared to the terrifying soul-searching that goes into deciding what kind of sealant to use - a porous or a non-porous one?
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Archive TitlesTall order
Ian Simpson's Beetham Tower has given Birmingham another bravura building, but it's going to need some help in lifting its location. Photographs: Kilian O'Sullivan
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In my opinion
Goaded by Jonathan Glancey's Guardian piece ‘Poor people, poor homes' (8 February), the concerted response of Countryside Properties, Cabe and the local MP, was a dead giveaway.