Architecture News
16 March, 2010
Heatherwick Studio, DRMM, Foreign Office Architects, AHMM and Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners were among the practices honoured in this year’s Civic Trust Awards.
16 March, 2010
Marks Barfield is working on a project that could transform the old Longbridge car plant in Birmingham into a centre for young people.
15 March, 2010
15 March, 2010
15 March, 2010
15 March, 2010
MIPIM & the Cycle to Cannes
15 March, 2010
Pictures from this year’s Aedas Cycle to Cannes include Christophe Egret in cycling leggings and some of the construction industry’s leading lights participating in some very strange warm up exercises…
4 March, 2010
Riders participating in Cycle To Cannes, the annual sponsored bicycle ride to Mipim, have reached the last leg of fundraising before the ride starts next Thursday.
Editor's Choice
12 March 2010
The glamour and confidence of a sixties extension to a 19th century theatre had an early influence on James Soane of Project Orange
12 March 2010
Yes, it is one of the only opportunities for young architects, says Dominic Papa, while Hans van der Heijden thinks it needs Cabe’s backing
Picture of the Day
16 March, 2010
Herzog & de Meuron has revealed images of its latest project, the new headquarters for the Fondazione Feltrinelli at Porto Volta in Milan, Italy.
BD campaign: Come Clean on Kickstart
8 February, 2010
BD asks you to join our petition. We are calling on Cabe and the HCA to publish the projects and corresponding scores of housing funded under Kickstart round one.
10 March, 2010
Cabe and the Homes & Communities Agency have insisted they still have a well functioning relationship amid the row over Kickstart design standards.
12 March, 2010
BD’s Come Clean on Kickstart campaign scored a political coup this week as the communities & local government select committee announced it would grill the government and the Homes & Communities Agency on the matter, while the shadow housing...
5 March, 2010
Kickstart-funded housing developments given low Building for Life scores by Cabe were reassessed for the Homes & Communities Agency and subsequently scored far higher
Buildings
12 March 2010
Patel Taylor’s Children’s Centre in Barnes, south-west London, is the first stage of a project that aims to boost the whole of the local community
Comment
12 March 2010
All around the country sites are standing empty. Now it’s time for developers to step up and find alternative uses for their land
12 March 2010
There are still places where architecture is a communal experience
Technical
12 March 2010
A series of doors and windows products have been used in Trevor Horne Architects’ refurbishment of a 1960s office block in Kentish Town, which includes a photographer’s studio, private apartments and a penthouse with nearly frameless views...
Fun
12 March 2010
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer with your address by 10am on Wednesday March 17 for a chance to win a copy of Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for an Emergent Humanity, by Buckminster Fuller
12 March 2010
SOM’s Bruce Graham showed his RIBA audience Chicago from the skies
CULTURE
12 March 2010
Glaswegian artist Toby Paterson’s fascination with desolate fragments of cities helps us to re-examine architecture’s visual and social role
12 March 2010
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
BD Reviews: Healthcare
BD Reviews- Healthcare
Reiach & Hall directors Andy Law and Neil Gillespie discuss the challenges of openness and privacy in their hospital buildings including the Maggie’s Lanarkshire Cancer Caring Centre
BD Reviews- Healthcare
Three experts discuss sustainability in medical building
Student Space
12 March, 2010
Christopher Vansittart's album 'Polyark Mapping' was one of the images that caught Polyark's watchful eye this week, with his group work exploring the great central railway from Leicester to Loughborough.
12 March, 2010
Record number of applications means institute will turn down people in genuine need
Multimedia
3 March, 2010
Watch an animation of, and hear I.M Pei talk about, the Hyperboloid – the building that wasn't built.
20 November, 2009
20 November, 2009
Architect of the Year Awards
06 November 2009
Offices and education proved the most recession-proof at this year’s awards
06 November 2009
David Kohn opened his presentation to the Young Architect of the Year jury with reference to Isaiah Berlin’s essay The Hedgehog and the Fox.
06 November 2009
The award for the "best of the best" is for a body of work that has made a significant contribution to architecture in the last year
06 November 2009
Hawkins Brown approaches every education project from first principles and the varied results are all impressive
06 November 2009
06 November 2009
Carbuncle Cup 2009
28 August 2009
Despite strong competition from a record number of entries, this year’s winning building by Belfast-based Hamilton Architects is a shining example of bad architecture and bad planning
Readers' Ads
15 February, 2010
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19 January, 2010
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