All Features articles – Page 233
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From studio to workshop
After two weeks of intense work on the drawings, mock-ups and material orders, five of us arrived at Hooke Park on Monday at dusk, to a beautiful, exploding spring season.
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Tomorrow the world
Collaborations with Google Earth are beginning to give architects, clients and even the public unprecedented ability to test-drive new schemes in virtual neighbourhoods
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Could I survive the loss of my laptop?
Helpdesk: Each month, Liam Southwood, co-founder of IT consultancy nittygritty, discusses key IT issues and replies to readers' queries
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Wanted: help with paperwork
Rolfe Judd director Ian McIntosh explains why his practice chose the practice management tool Workspace
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Heads in the clouds
Delugan Meissl's architecture seeks to defy gravity. Ahead of a UK tour of its work next month, Zoë Blackler pays a visit to the new darlings of the Austrian scene
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Finnforest blog - the first instalment
A new pavilion is conceived, a new blog is born. We are 10 intermediate year students at the AA, in unit 2. As opposed to other architecture students around the world, in the next 12 weeks we will not be building architectural models, but rather a 1:1 scale pavilion.
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Roadtest: Time to learn a new Repertoire
Steel manufacturer Corus has relaunched its on-line Repertoire colour and profile selection service. Michael Hellyer, project architect at Hamilton Associates, likes it
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Silence of the Lammy
Next month David Lammy, minister for architecture, will have been in the post a full year, yet he is unknown to the profession and silent on architectural issues. Zoë Blackler discovers Lammy's lack of profile is matched by his lack of action
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Helpdesk: A few key questions
This month, I will address a question I'm often asked when using the keyboard to navigate through Windows and its applications while attending to people's PCs: "How did you do that?". This column is about shortcuts.
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Entering a new dimension
HOK is the latest, and highest-profile, UK architect to take the plunge and adopt Autodesk's 3D modelling tool Revit. David Littlefield spoke to the practice about how it is managing this fundamental change
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Platform: David Littlefield
This month Westminster University hosted a conference devoted to architecture and technology. Much of it veered way off the subject, but some of it painted an intriguing picture of a possible future. Jon Goodbun, of the Working Architecture Group, posited an idea which he maintained was partially achievable, but the ...