All Features articles – Page 241
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FeaturesDisposable heroes
The judges of the seventh BD /Zumtobel Staff annual photo competition faced a mammoth task to choose between more than 7,000 photos entered this year by BD readers. Sponsored by Zumtobel staff
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FeaturesCavaliers & roundheads
2004 saw conservatives take on liberals again and again in ideological battles. But was it a good year for architecture? BD asks five people who had a big 12 months
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Sharp End: 3D boost to design
A popular rule of thumb published by the Royal Academy of Engineering suggests the ratio of initial capital costs of a building, maintenance costs over 20 years and the running costs of the occupying business is in of the order of 1:5:200.
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FeaturesSpa pupil
This is one of a set of images that won the fabrication category in the annual student awards programme run by Form Z manufacturer auto.des.sys. Generated by fourth-year architecture student at Cincinnati University, James Cornetet, the scheme for a Shaker Village Retreat and Spa won the prize for the way ...
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Making a go of things
There has always been a fascination with product design within the Arup family. Ove himself came from a generation that did not see much distinction between approaching the design of a product, such as a chair, or a building. Both made life better for people, and both required a rigorous ...
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FeaturesLooking into the future
The demise of paper, and mobile phones with the computing power of PCs are just two of IT guru Lars Hesselgren’s confident predictions for 2010
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FeaturesCinema paradiso
The latest version of Cinema 4D is a must for any practice that is serious about computer visualisation, says Jonathan Reeves
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FeaturesRussell Brown
Having relocated to Norfolk, I read a lot on the train. BooksI read endless Penguin crime books — the old-fashioned ones with green covers — by Josephine Tey, Dorothy L Sayers, Margery Allingham, Patricia Wentworth; and lots of magazines, such as Domus, Archis, Frame, Frieze. I got Gilles Deleuze’s Desert ...
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FeaturesSelf-help group
Franks Gehry’s technological arm has called on UK architects to form a ‘digital ecosystem’ for mutual benefit
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FeaturesA Neutral course
Architectural film-maker and animator Neutral is to show its Place to Passage installation at Eero Saarinen’s TWA terminal at JFK Airport, New York, during November.
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FeaturesClues from the past
Work on Dresden’s Frauenkirche and the Sagrada Família have been aided by software that suggest their architects’ intentions.
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