All Features articles – Page 621
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Architecture: The Critics' Choice
Architecture: The Critics’ Choiceedited by Dan CruickshankAurum Press£25352 pagesThis lavishly illustrated book has been devised to provide "a refreshingly original approach to the history of architecture". It does so by dividing 2000 years of Western architecture into 10 eras, allotting each era to a pundit – including Gavin Stamp, Christian ...
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The Story of Architecture
The Story of ArchitectureJonathan GlanceyDorling Kindersley£20240 pagesThe Story of Architecture is yet another title from the Glancey stable. While 20th Century Architecture is one to adorn the grown-up book cases, this title would probably be best suited to the desk of a GCSE history student. The book is very much ...
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Not just clowning around
Media consultancy Circus has an office designed to match its philosophy – radical, transparent, informal and open.
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Cities for a Small Planet
Cities for a Small PlanetRichard Rogers and Anne PowerFaber and Faber£15310 pagesCoinciding with the publication of the government's long-awaited urban white paper Our Towns and Cities: The Future (subtitled Delivering an Urban Renaissance), comes a popular version of the urban taskforce report written by its chairman, Lord Rogers, and one ...
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Prescott targets contractors
After Hatfield, John Prescott hauled Railtrack over the coals. In a week when four people died on British sites, he has set his sights on contractors. Can the industry pull back from the brink?
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Danger mouse
A realistic software package gives designers and engineers a virtual vision of how building occupants would fare in a fire – allowing for amendments that could save many lives.
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Eric de Maré & John Maltby
Eric de Maré & John MaltbyRobert ElwallRIBA Publications£9 each108 pagesFed up with those glossy architectural photofests that demand a crane to lift and cost the price of a camera to buy? Well, here are a couple of enchanting tiddlers that will fit neatly into a Christmas stocking without making a ...
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Fulham's premier stadium
Mohamed Al Fayed has big plans for his football club: promotion to the Premiership and a new £70m stadium.
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Young guns go for it
Let's put plunge pools in the boardroom! Three exciting designers have been given their heads by office clients who want more than neat workstations in a tasteful shade of grey. On this page, Urban Research Laboratory's way with walls, over is Richard Scott's "sensory layers" and on page 44, And-Associates' ...
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Just the job
The engineer-turned-architect who created an artificial Brazilian rainforest in Germany talks about his multifaceted career.
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Renaissance money
The urban white paper published two weeks ago outlined a number of measures designed to give a fiscal backbone to the government's ambitious plans. But will they have the desired effect?
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The Shock of the Old
The Shock of the OldPhilip WilkinsonChannel Four Books£20192 pagesThis books comes as a companion to the recent Channel 4 series of the same name, in which Piers Gough strolled around the heritage sites of Britain explaining that, although we may find modern architecture shocking, historic buildings which we know and ...
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Sensory perfection
Surface Architects is experimenting with a complex matrix of eight shifting "sensory layers" for the offices of a cutting-edge software firm.
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The survivor
Baroness Dean spent the first half of this year fighting for the Housing Corporation's survival. Now she has to prove that she can make it work.
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Brick Awards 2000
The Brick Awards 2000 celebrate exceptional standards of work in brick. More than 200 buildings were entered for 10 categories, plus an overall award for the Building of the Year. This year's awards ceremony, held on Tuesday at London's Café Royal, was compered by Building editor Adrian Barrick and organised ...
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Appointments
Contractors Eddie Bredenhann (right) has been appointed marketing manager of construction development group Pochin.Michael Carroll, previously with RC Shepherd, has joined London-based contractor Albert Soden as senior estimator.HousebuildersCharles Church South-east division has appointed Jim Tolputt project manager.ConsultantsMPM Capita, the project and development consultancy arm of the Capita Group, has appointed ...
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Black boxes
Phones that work anywhere in the world (except indoors), cloth keyboards, cameras for budding spies and a mobile you can use to hammer nails … What will they think of next?
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Cost study: Capital One UK operations centre
The brief was to turn a derelict printworks in Nottingham into a vibrant and flexible information-economy office for an ever growing workforce. Here’s how the project team went about getting the job done
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Hard day's night
Brits work the longest hours in Europe, and it may affect performance. Here's what can be done
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Starter dome
Legacy wants to recreate the creative buzz of Clerkenwell inside the Greenwich Peninsula landmark. Its solution? A clip-together Tuscan village – complete with forest.