All Features articles – Page 158
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FeaturesDot to Dot result: January 16
Last week’s winner was Christina Xypolia of Crawford Partnership in London, who identified Le Corbusier’s Assembly Building at Chandigarh
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FeaturesRIBA/Foster £6,000 architecture travel scholarship now to be awarded annually
The RIBA’s Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship for students is to be awarded each year following an extra £100,000 endowment from Foster & Partners.
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FeaturesIn praise of tungsten light
Why is government phasing out the harmless and cheerful tungsten bulb while sanctioning the mania for overlighting?
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FeaturesRole of tomb paintings in the life of Riley
BD’s Douglas Stephen interviewed Bridget Riley in 1984 on the occasion of her show at the RIBA about her work at the Royal Liverpool Hospital
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FeaturesTony Fretton Architects’ British Embassy, Warsaw
Will Hunter looks at Tony Fretton’s cladding solutions for the new British Embassy in Poland
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FeaturesDot to dot result: January 9
The winner of last week’s competition was David Olson of Tonbridge, Kent, who identified Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67 in Montreal, Canada.
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FeaturesDot to Dot: January 16
Name the building for the chance to win a copy of World Architecture: the Masterworks by Will Pryce.
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Features(Re)store no more
As Woolworths shuts up shop for the last time, we cast our minds back to Andrew Rabeneck’s restoration of the firm’s 54-storey New York HQ in 1980
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FeaturesDot to Dot result: December 19 2008
The winner of our December 19 competition was Stephen Clegg of Calderpeel in Altrincham, who identified Eileen Grey’s E1027 at Roquebrune Cap Martin in France.
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FeaturesDot to dot: January 09
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday January 14 for a chance to win a copy of Frank Gehry On Line by Esther da Costa Meyer.
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FeaturesNakazawa’s practical magic
US architect Paul Nakazawa found his forte was coaching others to make the most of their talents. With a client list including Morphosis and OMA, here he talks to Pamela Buxton about how to survive the downturn
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FeaturesPDFs ready to enter the third dimension
The Adobe Acrobat PDF has become the common file format for electronic publication of text and image-based documents. What isn’t as commonly appreciated is that the PDF file format now supports 3D objects.
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FeaturesPixel this: Designing intelligent objects
Marc Fredrickson has a post-graduate degree in architecture, but his California milieu meant that for years he designed computer games instead. Now with digital provider FormFonts 3D, he’s leading the quest for intelligent objects
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FeaturesThe shape of things to come in building information modelling
A new era of collaborative design and project management could be ushered in by building information modelling
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Features1980s yuppies at play
When the refurbishment of some Turkish baths in Motherwell led to speculation about the outcome of the 1983 general election
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 19 December 2008
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday January 7 for a chance to win a copy of Talking Architecture: Interviews With Architects by Hanno Rauterberg.
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FeaturesDot to dot results: December 12
Last week’s competition winner was Paul Sidey of City Architecture Office in Edinburgh, who identified High Point I by Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton.
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FeaturesArchitectural cake challenge
A rash of modernist gingerbread houses has appeared on the internet for the festive season. Among them, BD’s very own Gingerbread Tate Modern, a fine, if wonky replica of the gallery on the banks of the Thames, complete with jelly baby visitors, baked by BD reporter Anna Winston (see recipe ...
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Gingerbread Tate Modern: the recipe
Various gingerbread recipes were experimented with during the building of the Gingerbread Tate Modern, but the one below offered the best combination of structural integrity and taste-bud satisfaction.
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