All Archive Titles articles – Page 46
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Neville Simms
Sir Neville Simms is the new chairman of the BRE Trust, the charitable company that owns the BRE and BRE Certification.
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Archive TitlesCulture clashes
Robert Bevan's book is remorselessly bleak. It portrays humanity as a monstrously brutal, malevolent species, that throughout its history has constantly resorted to mass murder and policies of deliberate extermination to allow one group to dominate another.
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Archive TitlesHow terribly convenient
Citizens of Gravesend in Kent are looking forward to a modest landmark in the redevelopment of their town, new public loos.
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Archive TitlesWhere eagles dare
Once a proud producer of ski champions, the German town of Klingenthal was bereft of a ski jump for 10 long years. London-based m2r's passion for the sport informs its lightweight, low cost replacement
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Archive TitlesDown the decades
The debate over nuclear was even more pressing than it is today when László Moholy-Nagy painted this dramatic Nuclear II in 1946.
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Archive TitlesNext generation winners
Fat is this year's winner of the Next Generation Award, given to a practice that the judges feel could bring new thinking to the design of commercial buildings.
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Archive TitlesLeave it to us, George
Pressure is mounting in the US to design buildings that are more sustainable. But as American architects haven't yet got their act together on green technology, it leaves UK architects the chance to clean up.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Stockholm
‘You get off the plane at Stockholm and design is everywhere. From the way people dress to the cars they drive and the restaurants they eat in, it is all around you.'
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Archive TitlesWhatever next?
Some see the Royal Gold Medal as a lifetime achievement award, but this year's recipient, Toyo Ito, hasn't finished dazzling and astonishing us yet. He even has a few European schemes up his sleeve.
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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.
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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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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 TitlesSpanish squeeze
Grimshaw's cultural centre in A Coruña splits its small footprint in two - crazy, but it works.
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Licking the Arb into shape
Proposals for regulatory reform of the Architects Act are supported by about 75% of the profession according to the RIBA, which is now studying responses to its consultation paper.
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Arb's PI policy has pitfalls
In response to last month's ruling that Arb has the power to demand proof of adequate professional indemnity insurance (PII), and the subsequent coverage in the media, it strikes me that an important point has been overlooked.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Berlin
UK visitors to Berlin will note the subtle, yet evident quality of the city's urban infill architecture.
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Archive TitlesTechno bites
In the first in an occasional series, RIBAJ invites an architectural practice to sample a veritable feast of the latest technical books. David Morley Architects is the first to tuck in.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Donald Insall celebrates his 80th birthday this month after 50 years of pioneering work in conservation.
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Archive TitlesCambridge crop
Contacting everyone who has passed through Cambridge University's architecture school turned up ‘vicars in Surrey and filmmakers in Manhattan' says Tom Holbrook of 5th Studio, curator of the Compendium exhibition at the RIBA.