All Archive Titles articles – Page 59
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Visitor centre was mine
In your article on the Cardiff Millennium Centre (RIBAJ Feb 05, page 44), you write: ‘The WMC [above] is very different from the first building project architect Jonathan Adams designed for the bay, a lightweight white tube-shaped visitors’ centre he sketched out while at Alsop and Lyall.’Jonathan Adams did not ...
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Cardiff renaissance
I enjoyed your critique of the Wales Millennium Centre (RIBAJ Feb 05).
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Archive TitlesBoardroom coup
Lloyd Park Under-5s Centre in east London defies nursery conventions in more ways than one, but what child could resist its cardboard box aesthetics?
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Archive TitlesWhat lies beneath
Dramatic as Hudson Architects’ Cedar House appears, it’s what’s under the skin that counts.
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Archive TitlesBack to the future
In his Stuttgart studio Frei Otto, this year’s Royal Gold Medallist, reflects on the influences that shaped his career, and how his ground-breaking structures were formed.
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Archive TitlesSlip sliding away
Specifying flooring for wet areas, especially public ones, means juggling safety, beauty and utility. And in a liability-conscious culture, users are reassessing their priorities. By Jan-Carlos Kucharek.
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Archive TitlesWhat is Welsh architecture?
This is a tricky one. Pevsner said once you cross the border different standards apply, but are things still that bad? Yes, if the Phaidon Atlas of World Architecture is to be believed. It found only one building worthy of inclusion, Richard Rogers Partnership’s Inmos at Newport, South Wales.
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Archive TitlesMany thanks to all
Many thanks to all those of you who entered the Get Carter/Commonwealth Institute competition (RIBAJ Jan 05, page 10). After much deliberation, a bottle of champagne goes to Peter Bernamont for his suggestion of turning the institute into an enormous pavilion by demolishing everything except the roof, and to Tania ...
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Archive TitlesThe special and the ordinary
Has an obsession with icons eroded the ability of architects to design a good, normal street? To introduce three studies of how new buildings interact with the cityscape, Alain de Botton looks at what makes the normal sublime.
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Latin look
Brazil’s Modern Architecture Edited by Elisabetta Andreoli and Adrian Forty. Phaidon, £45.Latin American Architecture 1929-1960Edited by Carlos Brillembourg. Monacelli Press, £25.
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The lab and the slab
A new research headquarters for the Wellcome Trust and a new building for University College Hospital stand shoulder to shoulder on Euston Road, London. It’s a pity they have their backs to the street.
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Archive TitlesThe legislation from L
Part L2 of the Building Regulations brings in devilish new legislation on energy conservation and is going to force architects to take a very close look at the design of their facades.
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Young talent heads for Mipim
Developers’ interest in young practices will be tested at Mipim next month when the Architecture Foundation makes its debut at the Cannes property fair with three architects it has shortlisted to represent the ‘next generation’ – an initiative to promote fresh talent.
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Archive TitlesThe great hereafter
The work may be flowing and the enthusiasm undimmed, but Sir Nicholas Grimshaw has his mind on what will come after him. That’s why he’s taken on a second job – at the Royal Academy.
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Water water everywhere
Anyone who hasn’t yet been put off by the idea of building on or near water should read Water House which looks at building under, over and with water and offers a deluge of surprising facts.
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Down the decades
This year’s Housing Design Awards sees the launch of a new gong, for the best housing scheme since the awards were launched almost 60 years ago.
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Day the world shrank
The Boxing Day tsunami has reminded us how the extended linkages of today’s global village bring far-reaching obligations. We may surprise ourselves by our response.
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Critical slating
The Wales Millennium Centre performs OK. Shame the set lets it down.
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Archive TitlesComing of Sage
The real forte of Foster’s Gateshead music centre is its harmony with its location.