All Features articles – Page 245
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Masterplanners need to banish the blobs
A successful masterplan should be an essay in large-scale architectural composition, but too often they end up merely a collection of arrows and coloured blobs. As we experienced with a masterplanning project in Holland, this can be the fault of the clients and planners as much as the architects.
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Changing times and a new attitude
On my first day at architecture school, the new cohort gathered in their unfamiliar studio to attend the introduction delivered by our year master. An air of apprehension was evident as us freshers listened attentively to gain our first insight into the mysteries of the architectural fraternity.
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Making a name for yourself
How important is branding to architects? We are told it is everything these days, and that the really important thing is to have a distinctive, easy-to-remember, impossible-to-misspell name such as Coke or Ka, or FCUK. Perhaps that's why architects call themselves things like Squid or Proton or Studio X. Imagery ...
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FeaturesSetting the standard
Richard Hyams moved from Foster & Partners to become design director at Aedas. He tells David Littlefield about the challenges of overseeing the work of nine offices and the role of the new Aedas Studio.
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Images at your fingertips
New software has been developed to make it simpler for practices to manage their digital archives.
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Sharp End: Keep it to yourself
Being the architect to famous and wealthy clients may seem a dream job. While architects often bemoan their clients' lack of funding and the design compromises forced upon them, the architecturally astute rock star or rich family client has both acres of land and the money to indulge their passions.
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Bring trust back to the planning table
When a senior planning officer in Cornwall took out his pen and drew a series of gothic windows on my design to help it fit in with the neighbouring Wesleyan chapel, I was plunged into the deep end of architect/planner relationships.
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Housing: it's the procurement, stupid
I would like to build homes that I want to live in, on a budget that makes them affordable for more than the lucky 10% of the working population who earn more than £35,000 a year.
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