All Features articles – Page 137
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 7 May 2010
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday 12 May for a chance to win a copy of Architecture Under Construction, by Stanley Greenberg
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FeaturesDot to dot results: April 30 2010
The winner of last week’s competition was John Malaiperuman of Nailsea, Bristol, who identified James Stirling’s Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart
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FeaturesBD's guide to your cultural week- May 10 to May 16
This week’s cultural guide includes the chance to learn to draw with the classicists, a game of Chinese whispers with London and Berlin designers, a free 10th anniversary art fair at the Tate modern and the architectural inspiration of J.G Ballard.
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FeaturesAmazed by Maggie
Margaret Thatcher visits the RIBA for Michael Manser’s presidential reception in 1984
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FeaturesDot to dot results: 23 April 2010
Last week’s winner was Alison Swabey of Garner Southall Partnership in Llandrindod Wells, Powys, who identified Jean Nouvel’s L’institut du Monde Arabe
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FeaturesDot to dot - 30 April 2010
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday May 5 for a chance to win a copy of Houses of Steel: Living Steel’s International Architecture Competitions
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FeaturesWhen the groom and best man divorce
Although Will Alsop was best man at John Lyall’s wedding, their professional partnership was about to split
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FeaturesDot to dot: 23 April 2010
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer with your postal address by 10am on Wednesday April 28 for a chance to win a copy of The Architect’s Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity and Architecture, by Harry Francis Mallgrave
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FeaturesDot to dot results: April 16 2010
Last week’s winner was Tim Godsmark of Shoreditch in London, who identified the Most Holy Trinity church in Bermondsey by Goodhart Rendel
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A roundup of the latest refurbishment products
SAS InternationalCeiling and claddingCredit: Philip vineA barrel-vaulted bespoke metal ceiling and stainless steel wall cladding by SAS International have been installed as part of a refurbishment of the peak hour subway at Waterloo station, London. The impact resistance cladding is finished in anti-graffiti paint. The refurbishment aimed to create an ...
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FeaturesJohn McAslan & Partners’ refurbishment projects
John McAslan & Partners specialises in taking underused and unloved buildings, identifies what’s good about them, and helps them to be re-used in a creative way, according to Pauline Nee, head of the practice’s historic building section.
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FeaturesCurtains for trio
Tim Ronalds and the Farjadi sisters parted company after winning Hackney Theatre remodelling competition
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FeaturesDow Jones on refurbishing a Hawksmoor crypt
Dow Jones partner Alun Jones on how Spitalfields’ mythos held the key to refurbishing a famed Hawksmoor crypt
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FeaturesShould I sue a client to recover my rightfully earned overdue fees?
Is suing my client the right course of action to recover unpaid fees?
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FeaturesBuilding on Soane’s foundations at Port Eliot
Much of what Soane envisaged at Port Eliot was not fully realised, yet despite subsequent remodelling, his basic structure still shines through the gilded decay
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FeaturesInterview with Will Palin of SAVE Britain’s Heritage
SAVE Britain’s Heritage secretary Will Palin says the organisation does far more than preserve old buildings. In its anti-Pathfinder initiative it is looking at new additions and extensions to preserve terraced houses in Manchester
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FeaturesRIBA Bookshops’ books on refurbishment
Julian Harrap of Julian Harrap Architects reviews guides to maintaining and refurbishing buildings and a pictorial view of converted projects
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FeaturesAvanti Architects’ Sheffield library restoration speaks volumes
Avanti Architects’ sensitive restoration of Gollins Melvin Ward’s Western Bank Library at Sheffield University reveals a Miesian masterpiece hidden by years of neglect
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FeaturesIs refurbishment always more sustainable than new build?
A trio of experts discuss refurbishment versus new build