All Archive Titles articles – Page 64
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Archive TitlesRust
Will any of today’s innovations attain the classic status of Cor-Ten? Robert Elwall casts an affectionate eye over Eero Saarinen’s favourite material.
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Really, really scary
The disaster flick storyline often centres around technological hubris followed by catastrophic come-uppance. Is Hollywood trying to tell architects something?
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Archive TitlesThe perfect storm-proofing
Roofs made from bio-based resins and fibres can withstand a hurricane.
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Archive TitlesNote perfect
Acoustic expertise has transformed an Edwardian church into a multi-purpose venue and a rehearsal space for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Archive TitlesNewtown spells it out
Buildings speak to you. Well, you’re an architect, so they would. But these really do. The buildings read as words – you can just decipher ‘public toilet’ if you study the picture below.
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More lottery winners
Your interesting article on schemes which have been financed, at least in part, by the Lottery, referred to the Heritage Lottery Fund (RIBAJ August 04).
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Labour of love
Barbara Weiss’s maternity unit at Central Middlesex Hospital is a lesson in humane architecture that promises women a welcoming, homelike environment in which to give birth. And the midwives will like it too.
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Archive TitlesKitset kudos
Prefab homes take a great leap forward in sophistication with a new modular system.
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Archive TitlesInnovation
IT and materials technologies are the biggest forces for change in architecture. So just think of the possibilities for architects if they got the two to work together.
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Archive TitlesI♥NY
So you didn’t win the World Trade Center competition and you weren’t even shortlisted for the memorial. Console yourself with New York Architecture Game.
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Archive TitlesGet stuck in
A new technique of green-gluing turns low-grade timber into a star performer.
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Archive TitlesFingers on the pulse
The government is bent on building its way out of a capacity shortage. Great news for architects as massive hospital projects get under way. Or is it?
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Archive TitlesWhere did everybody go?
Demolition is the fate of many of the 1.3 million apartments lying untenanted in eastern Germany. According to the Shrinking Cities project there are 400 cities around the world whose populations have ‘lastingly’ shrunk in the past 50 years. They include Detroit, Manchester/ Liverpool and Ivanov in Russia. Their histories ...
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Editorial
We all wonder in those idle moments on holiday why our towns can’t have bookshops that stay open late, restaurants that cost half of what you pay in England and an easy mix of old and new buildings that have not been taken over by chain stores. Why some towns ...
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Colombian roast
I was surprised by the mistakes in the article ‘What is a street?, in the July issue of RIBA Journal. First, Bogotá city is in Colombia, not Columbia (USA).
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RIP, good clients
It took me a while to realise that both the list of contents on page 3 of last month’s RIBA Journal, and the similar list on page II of the RIBA red-headed pages, did not in fact contain a typo.
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Geometry class
The geometrical precision of Walters & Cohen’s visitor centre for the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sussex sets up a relaxing rhythm in tune with its surroundings.
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Chill factor
Cold War HothousesBeatriz Colomina, AnnMarie Brennan & Jeannie KimPrinceton Architectural Press£19.95How did the Cold War period affect architecture and design? How did the major infrastructure projects and new ways of thinking it generated influence the environments in which America’s citizens lived? Cold War Hothouses addresses these questions by ...