All Archive Titles articles – Page 49
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Archive TitlesWho is Zbigniew Oksiuta?
A Polish-born architect whois weirder than a robot alien with teeth, that’s who.
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Archive TitlesA little light relief
Few Christmas lights manage to be as stylish and simple as this installation by BDP for Walthamstow town centre.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Nottingham
For too long Nottingham basked complacently in its past reputation as Queen of the Midlands. Now there are stirrings of change.
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Archive TitlesIt’s a Wrap
Just thinking about specifying recyclable products is enough to make most architects groan. Where are you going to find them and how can you tell if they’re any good? The Waste Resources Action Programme could be just what you’re looking for.
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South-east housing
‘Plans to build new housing in the South-east, demolish abandoned housing in the North and radically reshape London for the Olympic Games are monumental opportunities…
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Archive TitlesHoi polloi
As a practitioner and an academic, I am increasingly disturbed by the widening gulf in knowledge between these two areas, the deficit, it seems to me, being on the side of the academic. It is disappointing to find that the knowledge deficit applies to other disciplines, too.
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Senior health
Senior health department officials have been warning for some time that the NHS was building PFI ‘monuments’ when more flexible hospitals are needed.
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Geography lesson
So Terry Farrell thinks a new town ‘between Edinburgh and Grantham’ is an idea (Interview, RIBAJ Nov 05).
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Archive TitlesGeneration game
Panter Hudspith’s museum for Lincoln may be new but it works with rather than against the historical buildings that surround it.
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Archive TitlesI shot Norman Foster
I shot Norman Foster is not intended to encourage homicidal tendencies.
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Archive TitlesThe way forward
With too many signs and too little information, inadequate hospital wayfinding often leaves groups of lost visitors wandering through sensitive medical areas. Now a system of auditing circulation looks set to change that.
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Archive TitlesEnd of the koo
Freetown’s traditional Koo houses are slowly disappearing as the war-torn city is being rebuilt.
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Archive TitlesPhotochromic dye
Photochromic dye is normally just used for coating light-sensitive sunglasses, but it could work on buildings.
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Archive TitlesJust what the doctor ordered
Hopkins Architects’ Evelina Children’s Hospital overturns stale notions of hospital buildings with its suffusion of light, colour, fresh air and landscape. All right in the middle of London.
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Intra goes digital
Many of you will be familiar with Intra, the interiors magazine for the working architect and designer, but we wanted more of you to have access to it, so we decided to launch it as a digital title.
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Design for flood risk
Your interesting article on the role of good design and land use planning in dealing with flooding (Things can only get wetter, Oct 2005) prompts a couple of observations.
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Archive TitlesCast of thousands
This image could be described as a photographic equivalent of Michael Powell’s controversial film Peeping Tom (1960) in that in both cases the camera is the instrument of destruction of what it portrays.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Moshe Safdie
Israeli-born Moshe Safdie, whose Habitat pavilion was the showcase of Expo 67, gave the RIBA Trust’s Annual Discourse last month to talk about his work and fascinations.
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God, the architect
In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth – on time and on budget. Not bad for six days’ work, you might think. But then, it was one hell of a snagging list.