Stories
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How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle
A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.
Catalogue
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Southend General Hospital, Essex: views of the nurses' home and a typical ward block. Process print, 1932.
Date: 1932Reference: 552517iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Pictures
Southend General Hospital, Essex: the out-patients' block and the children's ward. Process print, 1932.
Date: 1932Reference: 552518iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Journals
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Arq : architectural research quarterly.
Date: ©1995-- Books
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London interiors, with their costumes and ceremonies. Pt. XVI.
Date: [1842?]- Books
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Designs in architecture; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating Pleasure - Ground, Parks, Forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soan.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]