All Features articles – Page 149
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FeaturesRIBA Bookshops’ pick of the best books on public sector projects
Richard Newman, co-founder of Birmingham-based Bryant Priest Newman Architects reviews three books on public sector projects including building green schools, management of public spaces and case studies of health centres
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FeaturesQ&A with Glenn Howells on reinterpreting Aston Webb’s designs for Birmingham University
Birmingham-based Glenn Howells discusses two very different projects in his home city — an addition to the grade II* listed university and new housing in an area blighted by crime
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FeaturesSylvia McNamara on the architects’ role in Birmingham’s schools’ transformation
Sylvia McNamara is leading the country’s largest BSF programme with the aim of transforming Birmingham’s schools and using architects for creative problem solving
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FeaturesDot to dot: 24 July 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday, July 29, for a chance to win a copy of Liverpool One: Remaking a City Centre, by David Littlefield
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Dot to dot results: July 17 2009
Last week’s winner was Davinia Glanfield of Hampshire County Council property services, who identified William Van Allen’s Chrysler building in New York
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FeaturesHow can I reduce my insurance premiums?
Following a claim against my PI Insurance, my premiums have gone through the roof. What can I do to convince my Insurers I’m not “high risk”?
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FeaturesUniversity of Liverpool goes with the glow
Sheppard Robson had to work with existing 1960s buildings to produce its luminous, glass-clad engineering laboratory for the University of Liverpool
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FeaturesFOA’s peninsula patterns for Ravensbourne College
Foreign Office Architects’ tessellated facade design for Ravensbourne College’s new home on the Greenwich Peninsula pays homage to its arts and crafts heritage
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FeaturesNBBJ’s box of tricks for Queen Mary, University of London
There is more than meets the eye at NBBJ’s Queen Mary Innovation Centre in east London, which not only unites a variety of uses but also appeases a conservation area
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FeaturesAre architects ready to tweet?
Web 2.0 — the use of the web in an intelligent way to facilitate communication, sharing and collaboration rather than just acting as an electronic “read me” brochure —has definitely arrived
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FeaturesAA examiners finally get the picture
Nigel Coates’ Diploma Unit 10 caused a major row in 1983 when the AA’s external examiners James Stirling and Edward Jones said the work produced was too experimental and refused to assess it.
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FeaturesDot to dot: 17 July 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday July 22 for a chance to win a copy of Wonders of World Architecture, edited by Neil Parkyn
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FeaturesDot to dot results: July 10
Last week’s winner was Jennifer Beningfield of Openstudio Architects in London, who identified the Schreiber House, by James Gowan
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FeaturesJoel Jenkins – Kent School of Architecture
Joel Jenkins’ projects concern dealing with household waste and the power of the tide
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FeaturesTom Greenall: Royal College of Art
Tom Greenall's project concerns itself with last remaining biblical miracle – the feeding of the masses.
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FeaturesPaolo Scianna: Kingston University
Paolo Scianna's new public institute for Croydon explores what the city might learn from archetypal forms and spaces.
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FeaturesPaul Kelsall: Nottingham University
Paul Kelsall's design offers a reinterpretation of a Victorian Mechanics' Institute and investigates the relationship between the social and the technological.
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FeaturesJacob Hussey: Greenwich University
Jacob Hussey's new school of architecture, adjacent to the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich combines the educational and the historic.
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FeaturesMartin Graham: Strathclyde University
Martin Graham's masterplan creates a new museum quarter and public park in a revitalisation of Glasgow's High Street.