All Archive Titles articles – Page 55
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Out of the toy box
Douglas Coupland defined the 1990s in his tale of disaffection Generation X (1991), with its 20-somethings too bored to aspire to anything other than ‘McJobs’.
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Archive TitlesBabes in the wood
John McAslan + Partners’ Lavender Nursery is not only a safe haven for toddlers, its Lego-like style of construction means it could also be adapted for use on the practice’s other projects.
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RIBA Award winners
Seventy-one projects in the UK and Europe were honoured in this year’s RIBA Awards, while seven schemes, from Brazil to Japan, were recognised in the worldwide category.
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Archive TitlesArt of the possible
The generous spaces of Feilden Clegg Bradley’s gallery at Yorkshire Sculpture Park make an artist’s heart leap at the thought of what could be done there.
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Who wants it?
The ODPM’s select committee report on empty homes and low-demand Pathfinders is now out and it makes fascinating reading.
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Archive TitlesWorkers of the world unite!
BMW won huge union concessions for its new Leipzig plant and Zaha Hadid’s brief for its Central Building was to help make flexible working palatable.
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Archive TitlesRoad show
In 1963 there appeared an intriguing book entitled The Italian Townscape filled with striking photographs in the lively, photojournalistic manner of the period.
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Archive TitlesStretching the point
Black pvc stretched as it has never been before has earned Alsop Architects’ Spiky pod at Queen Mary Medical School the soubriquet of ‘the largest fetish object in London’. Achieving the dramatic shape forced the specialist engineers and subcontractors to push the boundaries of their skills too.
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In my opinion
The Freedom of Information Act, under which private individuals have right of access to information held by all 100,000 or more public authorities in Britain, came fully into force, almost unnoticed, in January.
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Archive TitlesModernist manqué
In 1927 the French Secretary of Commerce and Industry attended the grand inauguration of Rue Mallet-Stevens.
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Archive TitlesWith knobs on
Conflicting regulations on ironmongery have forced architects to apply common sense and ingenuity to door specification. Fortunately, clarification is now at hand
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Stuff happens
No matter how architecture may hanker at times for ideological purity and simplistic gestures, ambiguity, complexity and contradiction will always get in the way. Good.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Glasgow
Australian architect Glenn Murcutt’s emphatic Luddite assertions – ‘I had a mobile, I got rid of it.
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Archive TitlesGene pool
Alsop Architects’ new medical school in east London has already been dubbed ‘the fish tank’ for its pods floating in a glass box. But it’s also the first lab building that opens itself up to the public.
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Embodied energy revisited
You justified not demolishing houses by reference to ‘embodied energy’ (RIBAJ May 05).
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It’s Eger what did it
The account of the community resource centre in West Ham and Plaistow is a good one, but the attribution to Arup is incorrect (RIBAJ May 05 page 62).
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Archive TitlesSilence in court
At Manchester’s new Civil Justice Centre the unanimous verdict was that natural light and ventilation were required. But court proceedings also demanded quiet. Architect Denton Corker Marshall and service engineer Connell Mott MacDonald found a way to reconcile the two.
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Cook’s new recipe
Peter Cook has taken over the mantle of organising the architecture room at this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
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Clients lead the way
Last month, you called for a ‘positive, alternative vision’ to promote sustainable architecture (RIBAJ, May 05).
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It’s not the buildings’ fault
Save is not in the business of making ‘sweeping conservation gestures’, as Wendy Shillam maintains (Letters May 05).