English Heritage fails to back Robin Hood Gardens
8 May, 2008
English Heritage commissioners have overruled the advice of the organisation’s own advisory committee over the future of Robin Hood Gardens and recommended it is not listed.
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English Heritage fails to back Robin Hood Gardens
Kent takes legal action over original Turner Contemporary scheme
8 May, 2008
Kent County Council is to sue Norwegian architect Snøhetta and British collaborator Stephen Spence over the duo's aborted Turner Contemporary gallery scheme in Margate.
RIBA and ACA split over forms of client contract
8 May, 2008
Architects will be forced to choose between two rival forms of client contract after the collapse of more than two years of negotiation on the issue between the RIBA and the Association of Consultant Architects.
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Davis pulls out of race for president
9 May 2008
The battle for the RIBA presidency took a dramatic twist this week as Paul Davis pulled out, leaving Ruth Reed and Andrew Hanson in a two-horse race.
Hodder's mills and thrills
9 May 2008
Stirling prizewinner Stephen Hodder has released images of his practice’s largest-ever scheme — a £170 million mixed-use regeneration project at Eckersley Mills in Wigan.
New mayor plans to cut skyscrapers
9 May 2008
London’s newly elected Tory mayor, Boris Johnson, took a step toward halting the spread of skyscrapers in London this week with the appointment of a key adviser opposed to Ken Livingstone’s planning policies.
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Prewett Bizley scoops Sheffield Europan site
9 May 2008
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Hadid not a factor in Moore’s resignation
9 May 2008
In Pictures
New Maggie's by Wilkinson Eyre
9 May, 2008
A sneak preview of Wilkinson Eyre's new Maggie's cancer care centre in Oxford
Buildings
Rogers Stirk Harbour’s Maggie’s Centre at Charing Cross Hospital is a place like home
9 May 2008
A sense of abstract domesticity pervades the first Maggie’s Centre to be built in England — at challenging site at Charing Cross Hospital
Comment
Erased from our memories
9 May 2008
The government wants to forget the optimism of sixites and seventies social housing ever existed
Is the drive for sustainability killing architects’ creativity?
9 May 2008
Austin Williams, author of new book The Enemies of Progress, is convinced it is, but Pooran Desai of BioRegional Quintain has plenty of examples to back his counter-argument .
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Tickets for London festival on sale
Tickets for London festival on sale
2 May 2008
Tickets for the London Festival of Architecture go on sale this Monday May 5. This year’s festival — formerly known as the biennale — is set to be the biggest to date, with more than 500 events between June 20 and July 20.
How radical sixties architecture let it all hang out
25 April 2008
Forty years after the unrest of May 1968, Shumon Basar reviews Spaced Out, a study of some of the avant-garde structures of the psychedelic sixties
Technical
Monks adopt an earthy approach to insulation at Berkshire’s Douai Abbey
9 May 2008
Architect David Richmond & Partners and structural engineer Price & Myers are creating a rammed earth wall using local soil for a new library and archive at Douai Abbey
Thomas Fairchild Children’s Centre, east London
9 May 2008
Haverstock Architects’ Claire Barton on designing a mixed-use children’s play and health centre with an insulating green roof
Heterotopia
Dot to Dot: May 9
9 May 2008
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday for a chance to win Jørn Utzon Logbook Vol. IV, Prefab: Kuwait National Assembly
Dot to Dot: May 2
2 May 2008
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday May 7 for a chance to win Herbert Wright’s new book Skyscrapers: fabulous buildings that reach for the sky.
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