All Features articles – Page 214
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FeaturesNathan Mooncie's Smoking Pod
Smoking Pod by Nathan Mooncie of Red Brick Architectural Design looks like a collection of architecturally scaled cigarette butts. The pod is hollowed out like a chimney, with a view of the blue above through the stainless-steel membrane of a floating balcony, and completed with an undulating smooth internal skin ...
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FeaturesThe science of socialising
With the party season in full swing, it’s time to hone your networking skills.
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FeaturesThe contractor is cutting corners on our design
I am an architect working under novation to a contractor on a design-and-build project. The contractor is not building to our specification, drawings or our employer’s requirements. Is there anything we can do?
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FeaturesJanet’s first architect
Janet Street Porter’s dealings with David Adjaye may be notorious but her first architectural commission was a happier experience
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FeaturesAllford Hall Monaghan Morris are quick on the draw
‘The life drawing class lets people show off their creative flair’
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FeaturesSasha Gupalov, 30, reveals all about his first job with Paul Davies & Partners
Sasha Gupalov, 30, Paul Davies & Partners
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FeaturesMatheus Ferreira's Plastic Lung
The designer of Plastic Lung, Matheus Conque Seco Ferreira, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where a smoking ban has been in place for the past five years.Having spent time in England as student at the Bartlett, he says he feels touched by the conditions our smokers are going to ...
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FeaturesChristian Harrup's Smoking Space
Christian Harrup says his Smoking Space meets both the aesthetic and social aspirations of smoking: it pays homage to clean, metallic cigarette packaging, while the interior walls act as filters for both noise and odour, and the white enamel exterior is almost angelic in its premise. The overall golden appearance ...
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FeaturesSteve Lambert & Alan Butler's Gobsmacking Shelter
Designed by smokers for smokers, Steve Lambert and Alan Butler's Gobsmacking Shelter will accommodate up to 200 people. It uses simple off-the-shelf and standardised components, has an imprinted concrete floor, a cost-effective decorative finish, vertical polycarbonate glazing slats, and freestanding, stack-bonded, fair-faced blockwork walls. There is also the potential to ...
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FeaturesUpdate: BD's smoking shed challenge
View all the funky entries we've had to date and submit your own design
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FeaturesTicket competition: Sketches of Frank Gehry preview
Win tickets to a special screening of Sydney Pollack's brilliant film about Frank Gehry
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FeaturesStudent blog: images of Amsterdam
Pauline Hayward, student winner of our competition to join Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands on a study trip to Amsterdam, offers her view of the city
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Description of diploma Unit 2 at the AA
We will continue an ongoing investigation into multi-scalar flow remediation strategies that attempt to merge the cultural with the environmental, moving beyond pure optimisation strategies to cultivate a breeding ground for the exotic and the novel. For this, the unit will work on developing formal performance organisations that negotiate between ...
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Description of diploma Unit 19 at the Bartlett
If we see our interaction with digital technologies and their peculiar landscapes as smears, then the more advanced a technology the more easy it is for us to smear them across virtual and actual geographies. We smudge our smears across space-time across the landscape and through machines. Where they are ...
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Daniel Libeskind accepting his honorary doctorate from Berlin's Humboldt University
What ineffable - immeasurable power of building in the city! The epiphany of the constructible is the strange sucking of the earth's axis. In the realm of architecture, ideas having stared at Medusa turn to stone. Here it is matter which carries the aura of ideas - ideas which metastatize ...
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Three bits of waffle from Foreign Office Architects' website
"…the site explores the theme of nomadic inhabitation…reflecting the lives of the travellers who colonise it for a while…”“our proposal intends to constitute itself as an alternative to the rational geometry approximations that intend to reproduce the picturesque qualities of nature…”“our proposal explores the strategies that produce organisational complex landscapes ...
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FeaturesBattersea power play
In 1984 Cedric Price proposed removing the power station’s lateral walls to release land for development