All Archive Titles articles – Page 48
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Archive TitlesNatural phenomenon
Wolfsburg’s new Phaeno Centre explains science to the masses, while Zaha Hadid’s architecture takes mass to new extremes.
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Archive TitlesWho speaks for London?
To change the nature of the capital’s development, we need a different decision-making process, one not swayed unduly by business or government or skewed by vague notions of partnership and community.
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Archive TitlesLife in ruins
What the editor of the Architectural Review Hubert de Cronin Hastings dubbed ‘pleasing decay’ has long fired architectural imagination.
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Archive TitlesNo place like home
Graham Bizley has turned a 60m2 end-of-terrace site into a four-storey hotbed of experimentation in space making, detailing and thrift – as any young architect would if given the chance to build his own home. Photographs: Kilian O’Sullivan
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Archive TitlesThe green light
Ecological Architecture: a Critical HistoryJames SteeleThames and Hudson£28This is a serious book on ecology, but not one of those printed on recycled paper. Beautifully designed and produced, it has a celebratory tone, rather than the accusatory one of the ‘deep’ ecologists. The time has come, author James Steele says, for ...
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Archive TitlesLet the grass grow
Lack of home-grown guidance is hindering wider adoption of green roofs because investors are nervous about the technique. Ciria is about to step into the breach.
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In my opinion: Marco Goldschmied
January 9, 2013. The long-awaited inquiry by Lord Farrell of Thamesgateway into Olympic procurement has identified the growth of a new virus, Cads (compulsive architectural delusion syndrome), which started breeding in the late 1980s in the fertile culture of the systematic dismantling and privatisation of public bodies.
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Flood warning
The reference to Hurricane Katrina in your leader (RIBAJ Nov 05) brought to mind the Environment Agency’s website regarding the growing risk of a major surge in the Thames.
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Archive TitlesVenice deception
The secret’s out – the 2006 British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is inspired by the work of Colonel Turner’s covert operations department.
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Please help student charity
The RIBA Education Trust Funds Committee administers the Student Hardship Fund which helps architectural students in difficulty.
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Everything must change
This year architects are going to have to get to grips with some far-reaching, hotly debated revisions to the Building Regulations. Here’s what the changes could mean for you.
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Brassed off with silver
The inhabitants of the RIBA headquarters seem to have developed a taste for bombast and exotica, the absurd and the hypocritical.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Barcelona
Barcelona has changed a lot in the 15 years since I drew the short straw to report on the annual Sags (Salaried Architects Group) tour.
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Archive TitlesWhat is cinematic architecture?
It’s enough to make you drop your popcorn. If, as Jean-Luc Godard claims, film is truth at 48 frames per second, the eternal values of architecture as we know it are about to end up on the cutting room floor.
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Archive TitlesAlmost invisible...
...as it reflects the tree trunks, the design for this little ticket booth by Make architects has just received planning permission.
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Archive TitlesSpeed reads
Landmarks of Britain – The Five Hundred Places That Made Our History By Clive Aslet Hodder and Stoughton. £30Were it not such a tombstone of a volume, the perfect place for this vivid compilation of ‘places where things happened’ would be the glove compartment of the car. For any rural ...
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In my opinion
In the mid-19th century a microscopic yellow insect started appearing on the roots of vines as far apart as Northampton and the lower Rhine Valley.