All Features articles – Page 215
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FeaturesSir Frederick Gibberd 1908-84
As the architect of Harlow New Town, Heathrow Airport, the Regent's Park Mosque and the nuclear power station at Didcot, Sir Frederick Gibberd's career was more varied than most
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FeaturesGibberd’s picturesque polluter
The so-called ‘Cathedral of the Vale’ was the UK’s fourth biggest emitter of carbon dioxide
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FeaturesSandy Wilson: Passionate champion of democratic space
Sandy Wilson (1922-2007) is remembered by friends and colleagues as a great architectural talent, but also as a patron of the arts and an inspirational educator who was always ready to promote the talents of others
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FeaturesPoem in tribute to Sandy Wilson
Poet Theresa Shiban joins in our celebration of Sandy Wilson's life and work with a poetic tribute to the British Library
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FeaturesRosemarie MacQueen
Rosemarie MacQueen is the newly appointed director of planning and city development at Westminster City Council, London
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FeaturesRedesigning the public perception of PFI
If we are to rescue the core values of British politics from a bonfire of the vanities there is much to do.
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FeaturesGet round growing pains
When Jefferson Sheard Architects needed to automate some basic administration tasks, it chose Rapport 3 from Cubic Interactive. Installed over a year ago, it has expanded with the firm.
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FeaturesHow green is your footprint?
After BD exposed the large amount of air travel by some of the UK’s biggest practices, Karen Glaser looks at how other architects are cutting their carbon emissions
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FeaturesWhy do we earn less than other professions?
Why do architects earn so much less than surveyors and project managers, let alone lawyers and doctors?
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FeaturesPrecast disaster
It may be 39 years since the collapse of Ronan Point, but towers using the discredited large-panel system still remain
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White space
A prewar building in London’s Hatton Garden, the city’s diamond trading quarter, has been polished up by architect Buckley Gray Yeoman.
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Features‘Refurbishment is true sustainability’
Hawkins Brown has been in demand for creative office conversions for nearly two decades, making it an ideal mentor for upcoming practice Hut Architecture Photographs by Edward Tyler
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FeaturesSteven Parissien
‘Youngsters want to learn conversation skills’ says the new director of education at the Prince’s Foundation
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FeaturesPathfinders search for a route to Kyoto
The government’s nine housing market renewal Pathfinders are to benefit from a research project aimed at finding the most efficient way to bring pre-1919 solid-wall housing up to post-Kyoto insulation standards.
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High point
Form Art Architects has won listed building consent to refurbish the entrance halls to Highpoint 1 & 2, Tecton and Lubetkin’s 1930s apartment blocks in Highgate, north London.
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FeaturesLiving the high life
Doyen of modernist restoration John Winter has been working at High & Over in Amersham since 1994. Here he revisits the building and celebrates the glamour of Amyas Connell’s original concept. Photos by Morley von Sternberg
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FeaturesHawksmoor’s heavenly harmonies
Levitt Bernstein director Axel Burrough hears how classical and contemporary have been mixing at the London Symphony Orchestra’s St Luke’s education and rehearsal centre. Photos by Gareth gardner