All Archive Titles articles – Page 46
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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 TitlesShadow boxer
Towards the end of the 1950s a new group of architectural photographers burst upon the scene, chief among them John Donat (1933-2004), Richard Einzig (1932-1980) and Henk Snoek (1915-1980).
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Slip slidin' away
Kodachrome slides once inspired architects, shaped their visual discourse and made every day look sunny, but soon they will be no more and the world will be a little greyer.
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Architecture schools
Architecture schools in this country pride themselves on teaching students to be critical, to think and to problem solve.
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Archive TitlesWrap up warm
Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton Architects are designing a ‘loose jacket' for the cladding on the Halley VI polar station, but its skin must be flawless and the panels fit perfectly if it's to keep out the cold.
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Riddle of the stairs
I was very interested in the article on Graham Bizley's house (RIBAJ January 06, pages 48-52). A magnificent achievement in getting planning.
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Archive TitlesPut it to the vote
Richard Rogers' National Assembly for Wales is open, transparent, and offers a state-of-the-art public gallery. Now the politicians must pull in the punters.
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Pinch of Salt
I enjoyed the article in the November Journal on the Salt House (pages 56-52); great design!
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Archive TitlesPeek practice
Architects' offices are rarely visible to passers-by. Issues of rent and security are enough to explain why the profession is invisible on the high street, but there is also the problem that if you have a shop window, what do you put in it?