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Articles from The Architectural Review (December 1, 2001)

1-57 out of 57 article(s)
Title Author Type Words
Alcan. (Exterior Envelope). Brief Article 45
Alcan. (Specifier's Information). Brief Article 61
Alpine Arrival: Adding a large new building to a small village in a delicate landscape could have been a disaster. Here, imagination made it an asset. Brief Article 292
Alumasc. (Specifier's Information). Brief Article 100
Alvaro Siza: Complete Works. (Selling Siza?). Ryan, Raymund Brief Article 236
Amtico. (Specifier's Information). Brief Article 51
Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architecture Culture. Manasseh, Boaz Ben Book Review 366
Architecture Sandbagged: A recent exhibition of photographs of French monuments sandbagged to protect them during wartime recorded some intriguing transformations. (View). Brief Article 413
Artistic Vehicle: This tyre-fitting workshop and space for young artists makes an improving contribution to the public realm. Brief Article 186
Beach Bar: Overlooking a beach on Spain's rocky north-west coast, this restaurant is a tactful presence in the landscape. Brief Article 224
Box House: Based around a traditional Mediterranean patio, this modest private house is a finely judged response to site and climate. Brief Article 295
Browser: Sutherland Lyall surfs the cyberwaves. Brief Article 637
Building Blocks: This adaptable, economic armature for genuinely mixed urban development is an inventive and enlightened response to the chaotic conditions of Japanese cities. Brief Article 294
Chaos Theory: Using innovative modern construction techniques, this restaurant brings clarity and calm to Japanese chaos. Brief Article 204
Cities for the New Millennium. (London Evolution). Ward, Colin Book Review 246
Colombo. (Iron Mongery). 27
Community Central: A community shelter built by the users for a wide variety of tasks is made with the cheapest materials and simplest techniques yet still has dignity and presence. Brief Article 377
Concord: Marlin. (Specifier's Information). Brief Article 91
Emerging Architecture: The ar+d awards 2001 received an astonishing number of entries from more than 60 countries. The range of ideas and invention is stronger than ever. (Comment). 1168
Felt Tip: An apparently simple idea, executed with an attention to detail, wins the first ar+d award for industrial design. Brief Article 243
Fir Italia. (Iron Mongery). Brief Article 37
Flower Show: The excellent German federal garden exhibitions have produced some fine works but few as good as this, which complements the outstanding eighteenth- and nineteenth-century landscapes of Potsdam. Brief Article 467
GIG Fassadenbau. (Exterior Envelope). Brief Article 84
Indian Summary: A recent addition to Ahmedabad continues that city's most distinguished tradition of fine modern academic buildings. Brief Article 341
Inspiring Infill: Carefully planned to take advantage of its site and climate, this new house sets an example for infill development in the hot and sunny Brisbane suburbs. Brief Article 378
January. (View). Brief Article 265
Josef Gartner. (Exterior Envelope). Brief Article 66
Landscape Framed: In one of the most ravishing sites in rural Japan, Ryo Yamada has created a series of devices for intensifying experience of the natural; almost as if lenses have been made of cedarwood. Brief Article 157
Latent Sea: Latent Sea was one of the most imaginative, intense pieces submitted this year. It is designed to enhance our experiences of the sea, and touches all human senses: Smell, hearing, touch and even taste, as well as sight. Brief Article 387
Le Corbusier in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid. (The White Knight). Jencks, Charles Book Review 344
Letters. Brief Article 689
Levolux. (Specifier's Information). Brief Article 54
Light the Way: A very strange disused reservoir under a wooded hill in Berlin has been transformed into an abstract theatre of space and sound with the simple addition of light and water. Brief Article 205
Luxcrete. (Specifier's Information). Brief Article 87
Night Spot: Inserted into a former disused underpass, this nightclub is a subterranean bunker marked by enigmatic glowing portals. Brief Article 270
North 4 Design. (Specifier's Information). Brief Article 66
Optima Architectural Glass. (Specifier's Information). Brief Article 68
Painted in Light: This arts department of a university in a dreary Parisian suburb has been radically and imaginatively transformed by the use of light and colour. Brief Article 301
Peruvian Edge: This colourful seaside house offers intense and sometimes unexpected relationships between artefact and nature. Brief Article 335
Resting Place: Tectonic integrity is one of the main reasons why this funerary complex has appropriate dignity and quietness. It adds to a distinguished northern European tradition of making buildings in which rites of passage can be observed. Brief Article 275
Rheinzink. (Exterior Envelope). Brief Article 50
Rigidal. (Exterior Envelope). Brief Article 51
Sites of Memory: Perspectives on Architecture and Race & Landscapes of Memory and Experience. (Sites and Memory). Robbins, Edward Brief Article 321
Skyspan. (Exterior Envelope). Brief Article 92
Square Dance: Namur has gained a new heart by transforming the main square from a dull car park to what has been described as 'an urban beach', a place to be enjoyed by all the citizens. Brief Article 371
The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema. (Space in Time). Brittain-Catlin, Timothy Book Review 395
This Balloon Pavilion Floating Over the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand was Highly Commended in the AR+D Awards, But it is so Jolly and such Fun that we Decided to Make it a Delight. (Delight). Brief Article 164
Trent Concrete. (Exterior Envelope). Brief Article 87
Turning the Corner: A dim and shabby office block in Mexico City has been transformed into a sparkling new hotel with ingenious and economical urbane strategies. Brief Article 392
Ultima Thule: Governing the most northerly inhabited portion of the world's surface cannot be an easy job. This building makes the task bearable. Brief Article 353
Underwater Rituals: The extremely difficult problem of putting a mortuary in the middle of a housing estate has been approached with great thoughtfulness and tact, creating a building that is unassertive, yet dignified. Brief Article 449
Vieler. (Iron Mongery). Brief Article 41
Vienna Concertina: An ingenious movable canopy over the main court of Vienna Town Hall enriches the place by allowing many more varied social occasions. Brief Article 427
View from Vancouver: Vancouver on Canada's West Coast is currently experiencing a housing boom, but numerous other infrastuctural, cultural and community projects are also making their mark on the city. 1031
Village Refuge: A small residential refuge and workplace for the mentally handicapped achieves gentleness through placemaking and careful detailing. Brief Article 225
Vola. (Iron Mongery). Brief Article 66
Young Hope: This youth centre in a blighted district of Salzburg exemplifies the power of architecture to transform. Brief Article 391

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