All Features articles – Page 144
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FeaturesDot to dot - 20 November 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday 25 November for a chance to win a copy of Unbuilt Masterworks of the 21st Century, by Will Jones
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FeaturesDot to dot results: 13 November 2009
Last week’s winner was Monica Giuliani of Giuliani Architects in Henley on Thames, who identified Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasilia Cathedral
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FeaturesCome the architectural revolution…
The Architects’ Revolutionary Council presents its manifesto to the AA
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FeaturesDot to dot Results: 6 November 2009
Last week’s winner was Richard Pain from Hampton Wick in Surrey, who identified Peter Behrens’ house in Darmstadt, Germany
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FeaturesDot to dot: 13 November 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday November 18 for a chance to win a copy of American Vernacular Buildings and Interiors 1870-1960, by Herbert Gottfried and Jan Jennings
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FeaturesHow Homebase was whitewashed
Ian Pollard’s Egyptian and Classical stylings failed to impress his client
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FeaturesDot to dot - 6 November 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday November 11 for a chance to win a copy of Parks, Plants and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape, by Lynden B Miller
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FeaturesDot to dot results: 30 October 2009
The winner of last week’s competition was Piers Carlisle of Haines Phillips Architects in London, who identified Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute
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FeaturesThe stadt the Germans were in
Twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, the site of the Gropiusstadt skyscraper city still provides a stark reminder of the past
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FeaturesDot to dot results: October 23
The winner of last week’s competition was Paul Jones of Morgan Professional Services in Stratford-upon-Avon, who identified the Birmingham Rotunda by James Roberts
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FeaturesDot to dot - 30 October 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday November 4 for a chance to win a copy of Essays in Scots and English Architectural History, edited by David Jones and Sam McKinstry
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Architectural Association open day series
The Architectural Association School of Architecture is to hold open events for prospective diploma and foundation year students.
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FeaturesLyde End is in a field of its own
The judicious modernism of Aldington & Craig’s 1977 Lyde End scheme at Bledlow remains a convincing model for rural housing. Its grade II listing last month should finally bring this little-known gem the credit it deserves
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A roundup of the latest housing projects
Go ahead for Stephenson Bell in Sheffield Stephenson Bell’s Shirecliffe New Homes project. Stephenson Bell has designed 79 dwellings over 16 sites as part of the Shirecliffe New Homes project for Sheffield City Council. Last month the Housing & Communities Agency granted funding to build 27 of these, with ...
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RIBA Bookshops’ pick of the best books on housing
Roger Stephenson, founder of Stephenson Bell reviews a trio of books covering high density projects, a design primer, and a look at urban housing around the world
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The latest products for housing projects
Fläkt WoodsAdiabatic-cooling air-handling unitsFläkt Woods is installing air handling units from its EU range fitted with adiabatic cooling to reject heat from 3MW chillers at an 80-unit Richard Rogers-designed apartment block in Knightsbridge, London. Services engineer Cundall proposed a clever solution to release air at the right temperature into the ...
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FeaturesQ&A with 5th Studio’s Nathan Jones on urban design in suburbia
Nathan Jones, a director at 5th Studio, explains the thinking behind its approach to sustainable housing at St Audrey Lane, a suburban infill site in St Ives, Cambridge
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FeaturesDolls’ tea party
Elaine Paige opens the RIBA’s exhibition of architect-designed dolls houses
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FeaturesHousing connections
Different housing projectscan create similar strategies that work for urban and rural contexts
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Features21st century housing
There is a simple recipe for today's housing problems - prefabrication and off-site construction