All From the Archive articles – Page 17
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NewsDiva Zaha steals the show in Cardiff Bay
Zaha Hadid wins the competition for the £43 million Cardiff Bay Opera House
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FeaturesTwinkle twinkle
Zaha Hadid and Peter Smithson were among the stars who gathered for the Celebration of Architecture in Cumbria in 1984
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FeaturesSolar City is Cook’s bid to be buildable
With this project Peter Cook strove to end his Archigram-fostered reputation as a designer of unbuildable projects
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FeaturesJanet’s first architect
Janet Street Porter’s dealings with David Adjaye may be notorious but her first architectural commission was a happier experience
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FeaturesBattersea power play
In 1984 Cedric Price proposed removing the power station’s lateral walls to release land for development
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NewsBathat in BD
How BD reported on Cedric Prices's alternative proposal for Battersea Power Station
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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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NewsYet another system in safety scare
Widespread problems with Reema system-built flats prompted urgent investigations by several local authorities in 1985
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TechnicalCatalogue of horrors
In 1987, the BRE published its report on system-built blocks. Sam Webb, fierce critic of the large panel systems that led to the collapse of Ronan Point, analyses the findings
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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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FeaturesFace looks familiar
Jeremy Dixon tells Thatcher how there is a little bit of himself in his architectural model
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NewsNorthampton defers decision over Pyramid
BD reports the stalling of Jeremy Dixon and Ed Jones controversial county hall building in May 1974
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Building StudyPlay Time
Dejan Sudjic reports on the playstructure designed by Florian Beigel's students in the long hot summer of 1976
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NewsEldridge Smerin's Highgate house
This new house be Eldridge Smerin will replace John Winter's house that was demolished in 2004
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TechnicalI've started so I'll finish
John Winter takes the hot seat in the Celcon Architectural Mastermind