Stories
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The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
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Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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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.
Catalogue
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Greek and Roman methods of painting : some comments on the statements made by Pliny and Vitruvius about wall and panel painting / By A.P. Laurie.
Laurie, A. P. (Arthur Pillans), 1861-1949.Date: 1910
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A decade of progress in Eugenics. Scientific
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Cabinet-making: floor marquetry (top), and wall panels (below). Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 41293i- Pictures
Orthopaedics and rheumatology: 42 eponymous figures and the corresponding symptoms. Colour lithograph, 1986.
Moll, J. M. H. (John Michael Henderson), 1939-Date: 1986Reference: 589498i
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Nankow pass, Pechili province, China: interior wall of the archway of Juyongguan. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 19281i