All Features articles – Page 228
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FeaturesRoadtest: Artlantis ups its visual offer
Abvent has released version 1.2 of Artlantis Studio. Architect Jonathan Reeves, a specialist in cad training and 3D visualisation, says the program is a good mid-range product — but don’t expect too much
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FeaturesAre you sitting comfortably?
Zoë Blackler meets Oren Safdie, whose bitter experience as an architecture student moved him to expose the profession in a play which has its European premier in London this week
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FeaturesThe speed read
The speed read: David Adjaye, Making Public Buildings, edited by Peter Allison, Thames & Hudson, 2006, £18.95
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FeaturesPublic spirits
Since being named a double winner at last year’s BD Architect of the Year Awards, Bennetts Associates has been busy with public building projects for Hampshire council and the redevelopment of the RSC in Stratford Words Elaine Knutt Photographs Morley von Sternberg
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FeaturesThe Olympics sparked
When we looked at the Olympic project the stadium, the Olympic Village, the training and performance venues we realised that there needs to be a consistent security system between them all. It would make sense if one company could supply all the doorsets, including the frames, the handles ...
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FeaturesRIBA turns to reality TV with Living Landmarks
Science Museum’s Swindon Centre by William McDonough & Partners.
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FeaturesLoyd Grossman
‘We have a legacy of fabulous work in Liverpool' says the chairman of Liverpool's national museum's trust
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FeaturesShoot for the gold
Most architects’ dreams of an Olympic gold commission are fading, but the Office of Subversive Architecture has sidestepped the ODA and awarded itself an Olympic project of its own.
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FeaturesRecycling goes underground
Did you know that the 15,000sq m of glossy black and white tiles used in the refurbishment of London’s Oxford Circus tube station are in fact a reincarnation of the old tiles, removed after 25 years’ service?
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FeaturesRecycling goes underground
Did you know that the 15,000sq m of glossy black and white tiles used in the refurbishment of London’s Oxford Circus tube station are in fact a reincarnation of the old tiles, removed after 25 years’ service?
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The numbers game
£80 million is available to libraries in England and Wales to transform their buildings into modern communication hubs.
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FeaturesWhy do we create grand spaces
I am, not surprisingly, interested in the design of public buildings, sitting as I do in an office in the National Gallery overlooking the new public space of Trafalgar Square now transformed from a torrent of double-decker buses into an open, more continental plaza.
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FeaturesNational Maritime Museum Cornwall, Long and Kentish
Four years on, Rolfe Kentish of Long & Kentish returns to Cornwall’s National Maritime Museum to see whether everything is shipshape
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FeaturesBreathing room
The Civic Museum in Galway, designed by architects from Ireland’s Office of Public Works, is hiding a secret under its facade.