All Features articles – Page 169
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FeaturesStiff & Trevillion’s Mike Smith revisits St Alban, the restaurant the firm designed in 2006
Stiff & Trevillion goes back for seconds to its successful West End eatery
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FeaturesDot to Dot September 19
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday September 24 for a chance to win a copy of Ten Canonical Buildings 1950-2000 by Peter Eisenman.
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FeaturesStockholm reflects on real life practice
Ten international architects presented their work at last month’s Stockholm Seminar, which sought to examine the gap between architectural practice and theory. James R Payne reports
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FeaturesThe future is parametric
In Venice last week, Patrik Schumacher, partner at Zaha Hadid Architects, hailed parametricism as the great new style after modernism. This is an edited version of his manifesto
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Is it possible to be green in a downturn?
Phil Clark on why sustainable solutions will become more valuable in a straitened economic environment
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FeaturesMy client only wants to pay me if my project wins planning
My client is pressuring me to submit a planning application (RIBA Work Stages A-D) “at risk”, with payment subject to getting planning permission. What should I do?
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FeaturesTake charge of your practice’s data
It pays to research the options for document management
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup 2008: The latest nominations
Manchester Civil Justice centre could become the marmite of modern architecture in October after notching a double-whammy nomination for both the Stirling Prize and Building Design’s Carbuncle Cup.
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FeaturesJonathan Woolf: The Wynd
The pattern of long “wynds” or “pends” — very narrow streets running perpendicular off both sides of a single main street — is a significant medieval contribution to urbanity and can still be enjoyed all over Scotland.
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FeaturesNeil Gillespie: Orkney
Thomas A Clark in his poem Forest Without Trees talks of the land hardening as you journey north.
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FeaturesSandy Wright: Kilmartin Glen, Dunadd Fort and Temple Wood
Kilmartin Glen is a linear cemetery dating to about 3000 BC.
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FeaturesJohn McAslan: Sugar warehouse & James watt dock, Greenock
My modernist instincts remain informed by my early and continuing obsession with 19th century British industrial architecture.
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FeaturesGraeme Massie: Islay distilleries
The first trace of activity is visible as one begins the descent over Laggan Bay to the airport — in the distance, sharp incisions outline subtractive cuts in the landscape.
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FeaturesClare Wright: Glasgow tenements
Last year I was an awards assessor in Scotland and, having driven all over the country looking at new buildings, I concluded that there is a distinct Scottish architectural culture.
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FeaturesMalcolm Fraser: Church of St Columba, Fife
The great upheaval of the Scottish Reformation was underpinned intellectually by the primacy of the Word over the image.
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FeaturesGavin Stamp: St Vincent street church, Glasgow
I suppose it is boringly predictable that I should choose a building by Alexander “Greek” Thomson but both fate and Glasgow have been unkind to his creations, and the St Vincent Street Church is now the only intact survivor of the three amazing Presbyterian temples he designed. But it is ...
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FeaturesChristopher Platt: Firth of Clyde
It’s easy to avoid the sentimentality and dubious songs if you experience a place as a child “without thinking about it”, to paraphrase Peter Zumthor.
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FeaturesCharlie Sutherland: Rohallion lodge, Perthshire
This typical Scottish hunting lodge was built in Perthshire for Sir William Stewart, an eccentric Victorian explorer.
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FeaturesCharles Rattray: Deeside
Studded with tower houses, Deeside, the great valley running from the Cairngorms to the sea, is a man-made scene as well as an enduring geology.
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FeaturesCharlie Hussey: Calton Hill, Edinburgh
I can think of few cities in the world that have such a powerful relationship with the landscape as Edinburgh — and Calton Hill epitomises this.