All Features articles – Page 213
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FeaturesChoker by Michael Laviano
Ring around the rosies,Pocketful of posies.Ashes, ashes.We all fall down.
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FeaturesChimney Pot by Matt Ball
Viva la chimney is a self supporting structure made out of a single piece of reinforced/light-weight fired clay (‘clay’ as it happens being an early term for a cigarette).
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FeaturesSilver Screen by Popular Architecture
Popular Architecture’s smoking shelter takes inspiration from a time when smoking was perceived in a different way - glamorous, seductive, and mysterious.
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FeaturesThe Out of Pub Experience by Tom Lewith
The ‘Out of Pub Experience’ by RCA graduate Tom Lewith turns the new status of the smoker as social outcast on its head making social detachment desirable.
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FeaturesUrban Green Space by Nord
BD’s Young Architect of the Year, Scottish practice Nord has designed this shelter for a nightclub carpark in Glasgow city centre.
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FeaturesMaking the model project
Edinburgh-based practice Gilberts invested in a Z Corp rapid prototyping machine to turn cad images into physical models. A year on, the architect and an engineer discuss the process and the dividends it has brought
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FeaturesSizing up the file sending options
I often need to send large files and packages to people I am working with. Email leaves a lot to be desired, and sometimes there just isn’t time to burn a CD/DVD and post it. Can you recommend an alternative method?
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Features‘Tell clients you know in which order to spend the money’
Low-energy, low-carbon homes are a challenge, but the real task facing architect Spacelab is delivering eco-housing at a profit. Services consultant Max Fordham offers some tipsPhotographs Ed Tyler
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FeaturesCounting down to zero carbon
PRP ZedFactor set the zero-energy heating standard at St Matthews keyworker estate in Brixton. Two years on, associate director Ziba Adrangi calculates cost and carbon
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FeaturesSolar City is Cook’s bid to be buildable
With this project Peter Cook strove to end his Archigram-fostered reputation as a designer of unbuildable projects
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Playlist: Songs about houses
BD's chief sub editor Simon Aldous picks five house-related tunes Country House by BlurOur House by MadnessHouse of the Rising Sun by The AnimalsA House is Not a Home sung by Ella FitzgeraldTake Me Back To Your House by Basement Jaxx
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FeaturesBD's Carbuncle Cup: Call for nominations
Nominate your worst building of the year and be interviewed for our Carbuncle video report
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Who said that?
“The higher the buildings, the lower the morals”Noel Coward “Architecture is inhabited sculpture”Constantin Brancusi “Each new situation requires a new architecture” Jean nouvel “An art begins where words fail it”Edwin Lutyens “An architect is 2% gentleman and 98% renegade car salesman”Anonymous “We are all frequently disabled—whether in a rush, in ...
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FeaturesNord's Smoking Stand
In 2006 the Scottish Executive introduced legislation banning smoking in public places. Overnight, the introverted world of the public house was pushed out onto city streets across the country, and new kinds of public activity and street culture have emerged. Against this backdrop, Smoking Stand, Nord's second design, explores the ...
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FeaturesNord's Ceramic Ashtray
In the first of its smoking shed designs, Nord has taken the ceramic ashtray, a ubiquitous element of interior architecture, and given it a form specific to its new habitat, the building facade.
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Playlist: Music to walk around a city
In the first of our new series of playlists, Amanda Baillieu gives her pick of tunes to listen to on a city walking tour