All Building Design articles in 22 February 2008
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Building StudyFoster's Beijing airport terminal opens
Foster & Partner’s new terminal at Beijing airport has opened ahead of the 2008 Olympics.
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ReviewBack to the Future: Basil Spence - until April 8
Coventry Cathedral designer and former RIBA president Basil Spence, who died in 1976, is celebrated in this show, first launched at the cathedral last August. The collection includes drawings, sketchbooks, models and period film from the Sir Basil Spence Archive, many of which have not been seen before.
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NewsVenturi, Scott Brown and Hutton among over 500 supporting BD campaign
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Louisa Hutton of Sauerbruch Hutton, Herzog & de Meuron's Harry Gugger, Benedetta Tagliabue and Tony Fretton are among the international names to join BD's campaign to save Robin Hood Gardens.In an extraordinary response from the profession, more than 500 people have added their weight ...
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NewsEco-towns can't replace cities, says TCPA chief David Lock
Ministers have opened a “Pandora’s box” with plans for eco-towns, a senior government adviser on the controversial policy has warned.Town & Country Planning Association chairman David Lock, author of a report on the proposals, told delegates at the Architecture Foundation’s New New Town conference last week that the contribution such ...
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OpinionModern buildings must prove their worth, says Hodge
Writing in the March issue of Grand Designs Magazine, culture minister Margaret Holdge expressed her opinion that modern buildings shouldn't be judged by the same criteria as historical structures when awarding listed status
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NewsAll new homes to be 'future-proofed' for the elderly
Every new home built in England will have to be designed to suit the needs of elderly people, the government announced today.Ministers at the Department for Communities & Local Government said that in light of the country's ageing population, all new homes should be “future proofed” to include 16 features ...
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CompetitionsFor sale - designer office/home chairs
These Designer Chairs by Kraft Limited have been beautifully reupholstered in a modern contemporary Italian fabric and are suitable for either home or office.
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BlogsNews Junkie — 23 and 24 February
New zero-carbon deadlines, finely tailored pockets of feudalism, Oscar salutes Fidel and a giant wandering pyramid threatens Southampton.
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ReviewSustaining Identity Symposium – May 20
The V&A hosts a half-day symposium to discuss the role of architecture and the environment, in the maintenance of individual cultures under threat from increasing globalisation.
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ReviewPropositions for Cities: Mary Yacoob - until March 16
A scintillating exhibition showcasing Mary Yacoob’s curious and inventive drawings proposing slender vertical cities. All pieces are sourced from the artist’s remarkable imagination and from Science Museum machines.
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ReviewPeter Cook presents: Jakob and Macfarlane – February 25
When New Zealander Macfarlane returned to Paris (after a studying at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and Harvard) he was told by Thom Mayne to look up another former Morphosis player when he got to Paris. This was Dominique Jakob…and he’s never looked back since.
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NewsBig names join BD’s campaign to list Robin Hood Gardens
Writer Alain de Botton, property developer Stuart Lipton and architectural historian Alan Powers have all added their weight to BD’s Rescue Robin Hood Gardens campaign. Within hours of BD launching its campaign to list the landmark Alison and Peter Smithson housing estate, dozens had joined the fight.Peter Cook, Joseph Rykwert, ...
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Opinion
Scrub up nicely
Dobson’s Newcastle Central, Brunel’s Paddington, not to mention York, Darlington, Manchester Piccadilly, Liverpool Lime Street, London’s Waterloo, Liverpool Street & Victoria, Brighton, Bristol Temple Meads, Glasgow Queen Street, the threatened shed at London Bridge — I could go on — all capture the drama of arrival and power of the ...
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Opinion
Lost in space
Word arrives that an advert has been posted on the DCMS website to recruit a suitable individual to carry out Cabe’s light-touch review.
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FeaturesRoyal visitor is rather out of the loop
Prince Charles failed to come up with a disparaging metaphor when confronted by a Richard Deacon sculpture as he opened Tate Liverpool in 1988
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NewsOnly listing can save it
Simon Smithson spearheads BD’s campaign to list his parents’ Robin Hood Gardens estate
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OpinionTo the rescue of Robin Hood
Demolishing unpopular housing estates is simply a way of trying to obliterate the past rather than deal with it
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Opinion
Frozen music
Renzo Piano’s New York Times building is not only rat infested, it’s also freezing cold, according to online gossip site, Gawker.
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Opinion
Meet the Fokkers
Like Terry Farrell, I too have a Fokker DR1 model hanging over my desk in the office (Culture February 15).