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Blowing up a garden shed
Most architects wouldn’t want artist Cornelia Parker anywhere near their buildings. She is best known for her idea of an exploded view: The Turner Prize-shortlisted results hang in Tate Modern. Now the RIBA is showing her work Subconciousness of a Monument, a beautiful suspension of the dry earth that once ...
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Archive TitlesMaking it big time
Irish stars O’Donnell + Tuomey care very much how they are judged in England. With the Stirling Prize announced this month, will their second appearance on the shortlist be a winner?
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The Big Uneasy
Even something as powerful as hurricane Katrina cannot completely destroy a city like New Orleans. But as the water recedes and rebuilding begins, what can we hope for?
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Archive TitlesBuilding Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion
For more than half of the 20th century, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona pavilion existed only as a memory – and a set of photographs.
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Archive TitlesCrush bar
Azman Architects’ tiny but gorgeously detailed RIBA Bar has opened its doors to the public. Let’s just hope they don’t all come at once.
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Archive TitlesArchitects’ Drawings
Kendra ShankSmith Architectural PressElsevier 2005The sketches and drawings of architects have always been the key to understanding their individual visions, and Shank Smith’s book offers a whistlestop tour through history from the Renaissance to the present day. The author, a professor at the University of Hartford in the United States, ...
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter: Paola Antonelli
Paoloa Antonelli is curator of Safe, an exhibition opening this month at New York’s MoMA, exploring how designers deal with risk.
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Home thoughts from abroad
I have just been elected to the RIBA Council as an overseas member.
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Archive TitlesA8
John McAslan grew up travelling along the A8 between Glasgow, Greenock and Gourock to take the ferry across the mouth of the Clyde to Dunoon.
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The shortlist
For the third 100% Detail/RIBA Journal Innovation Award we’ve whittled down the contenders to just 10. RIBA introduces the products that made it and sets out the seminar programme – including a debate on renewable energy.
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Archive TitlesOn the way to Santiago
In this era of the celebrity architect we should reflect that even the most seemingly humble career can embrace major themes.
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Archive TitlesSpeed reads
This latest book on the life and works of our second Greatest Briton has already played its part in preserving his legacy.
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Archive TitlesSpeed reads
As a messenger boy at the United Nations in 1981, I spent hours sitting in an office above the portico of the UN headquarters.
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Archive TitlesSpeed Reads
Anything subtitled A Global History raises expectations of a serious tome, but Joel Kotkin’s exposition of the city is a slim volume, bulked up with pages of notes and chronology.
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Archive TitlesSpeed Reads
It seems no major architectural project is complete without a celebratory tome to accompany it, larded with glossy photos and uncritical text.
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Archive TitlesSpeed Reads
Anglo Files: UK Architecture’s Rising GenerationLucy BullivantThames & Hudson£25The point at which a generation is considered to have risen or is continuing to rise is bound to cause disagreement. Recently attention has been focused on architects who, despite the vast difference in their output, all happened to be under 40. ...
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In my opinion
Many years ago, working with Larkin Stratton May, a young and enthusiastic offshoot of Woolf Olins, I did a pitch for the rebranding of a supermarket chain. We did everything from store planning and lighting to new name and logo.
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Archive TitlesSmooth operator
Jack Pringle cut his teeth on RIBA committees in the bloody days of the 80s. This week he brings his blend of passion and pragmatism to the president’s chair, and he means business.
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Love thy neighbour
Haworth Tompkins has given new vitality to a faded 60s gallery by starting a conversation with its illustrious fellow citizen, Coventry Cathedral.