All Archive Titles articles – Page 63
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Reasonable answer
Any questioning of the access provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act is likely to attract criticism (unlike any questioning of the fire safety provisions, particularly the absence of any provisions to get disabled people out of a building if a fire should occur), but I will once again take the ...
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Archive TitlesSlinte!
Three years late and catastrophically over budget, the new Scottish Parliament may well have driven many to drink. Quite right, too – it deserves to be celebrated.
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Archive TitlesUnderground resistance
As any mole will tell you, when building underground, there are three problems: waterproofing, light and preventing heavy vehicles falling on top of you. That calls for a high performance, multi-functional roof.
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Archive TitlesTwo into one
Henchion-Reuter Architects has responded to Dublin council’s call for a building that could serve both as a community facility and as a centre for the local drugs team with characteristic pragmatism, confidence and wit. By Robert Payne.
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Secondary modern
Mossbourne Community Academy aims to change the ethos of secondary education. Asking Richard Rogers Partnership to design the building was part of the strategy.
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The prince’s skills gap
It was clearly not an isolated accident that George Ferguson spoke in support of the motion ‘This house believes that Prince Charles has been good for architecture’ at the London Architecture Biennale debate in June.
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Findlay’s folly
I can only assume that the reason you decided to devote three pages to the post-bankruptcy life of Kathryn Findlay was to demonstrate the folly of allowing 98% of your projects to run as loss leaders (RIBAJ September 04).
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Walk it, drive it, skate it
We know a city by the way we move around in it; its architecture is something to be skirted around, grappled with, peered at, parked on, surfed – even swarmed up.
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Archive TitlesLa Dolce Vita
Venice, Arsenale - Giardini della Biennale 12 September to 7 November 2004, www.labiennale.com
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Archive TitlesWho is Mels Crouwel?
He’s the architect who has to make sure all government building projects in The Netherlands have the architectural ambition to justify taxpayers’ investment, that’s who. On October 1, the 51-year-old took up his four-year post as Rijksboumeester or chief government architect.
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Woman of courage
The professor of architecture at the university where I was once a student used to say: ‘Architecture is about people.’
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Archive TitlesMore than a touch of class
A major expansion of the city academy scheme and wads of cash for building or reburbishing schools sounds like great news for architects. But how will the new programmes work?
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Bin Laden was here
Traditions of war art meet estate agents’ virtual walk-throughs in this year’s Turner Prize shortlist, with a digital reconstruction of ‘The House of Osama bin Laden’ by conceptual artists Langlands and Bell.
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Architecture Foundation quest
The Architecture Foundation is searching for a talented architect to design its new home, a £2m centre in the revitalised south London quarter of Southwark.
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Context is all
It’s good to see RIBAJ’s critiques of buildings accompanied by photographs showing them in their settings – the alterations and extensions to the Royal Geographical Society and the new visitor centre at the Royal Botanic Gardens were welcome examples in the September issue.
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Toronto alien
Martyn Pattie thinks the RIBA award-winning Ontario College of Design has ‘no beauty, style or elegance, and is an alien form’ (RIBAJ September).
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Advanced design
I always knew the Peter Jones store design was well ahead of its time… but by another 62 years? (1874 in RIBAJ, September 2004). Wow! In the same paragraph, is the restoring architect John MacAlslan (sic)? Ken Bell, ColchesterApologies – Peter Jones was of course built in 1936-38. And ...
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Archive TitlesWhat is TAG?
Probably the smallest of the RIBA’s linked societies, and if you haven’t heard of it that’s not surprising. According to its president Jan Maciag, ‘ all we want to be is left alone’.