All Features articles – Page 202
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FeaturesKisho Kurokawa, 1934-2007
After Kurokawa’s death last week, his friend of 40 years, Charles Jencks, talked to bdonline editor Zoë Blackler by phone about the man, his pioneering work and his legacy.
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FeaturesRecognition for Ted Cullinan, our architectural dad
With the award of the Gold Medal, the RIBA has honoured a great architect and inspirational teacher, says Richard Murphy
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Features60 seconds with...Richard Meier
As a retrospective of his work opens at the Louise T Blouin Institute, Helen Crump talks to Richard Meier about his artistic inspirations, grand pianos and missed opportunties
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Features60 seconds with...David Mackay, MBM Arquitectes
With this month's BD Magazine profiling three of the practices hoping to design housing for the 2012 Olympics, Elaine Knutt caught up with the masterplanner of the 1992 Olympic village in Barcelona
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FeaturesWalk softly
Minimising sound transmission from footfall is always a priority when designing apartment blocks.
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FeaturesSilver surface
A new roofing membrane combines the benefits of metal and waterproof systems
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‘We’ve got to stand up as an industry... we’ve got a lot to offer’
Jason Tinsley, technical and product marketing manager, Mitsubishi Electric Heating
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FeaturesGlad reclad
Emmeline is the first of three ex-local authority tower blocks in Collyhurst, north Manchester, to be reclad and refurbished by architect Union North.
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Features‘If you get on a framework, make friends’
Can a design-led practice appeal to play-it-safe social housing clients? Waugh Thistleton Architects tells PH Plus how it’s done
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FeaturesPTE’s plans for Surrey eco-village
A 2,600-home eco-village in the Surrey green belt that could be a test case for building new communities in rural locations is soon to be the subject of a planning application by Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects.
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FeaturesWhy Gordon’s eco-towns need electric dreams
Two years ago, we marvelled at Dongtan, the Shanghai eco-city.
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Home for the not-so distant future
Gaunt Francis Architects’ competition-winning Home for the Future is now on site at BRE, and is due to complete by spring 2008.
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FeaturesNew designs on the rebirth of self-build
An RIBA design competition to select up to 10 housing designs that will be offered to a new generation of self-builders is being launched on October 15th.
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Dense wins
A-EM Studio and Audley English Associates are preparing a planning application for their RIBA competition-winning scheme for Ujima HA at Greenwich, south London.