All Building Design articles in 26 May 2006
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FeaturesThe production line starts to roll
The initial team at Hooke Park was joined by Hiro, Jesse and Tessa on Thursday evening, who glided down to Dorset in Evonne's dad's BMW, kindly loaned for the duration of our stay. Simon, Evonne, Charles and Martin arrived on Friday evening to swell the team to its full capacity.
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NewsWho will win your vote?
Nominations for the RIBA presidential race have now closed, and ballot papers will be landing on your doorstep any day now. Here, the three candidates describe in their own words their priorities if elected, and also show off one of their own favourite projects
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Opinion
Past the post
Seeing your headline "Arb reformers fall at first hurdle" (News May 19), I wondered whether James Rose and I were at the same race meeting. I saw five reformist runners enter the field and leave at the end having made the most constructive contributions to debate, along with two appointed ...
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ReviewSweden's reluctant modernist
Erik Gunnar Asplund's stylistic journey is well documented in a new monograph
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Building StudyPick and mix
Penoyre & Prasad's arts centre in Tower Hamlets has been designed as a celebration of the area's multiculturalism, while the rough and ready approach allows ample opportunity for the creativity within. Ellis Woodman pays a visit to see if Rich Mix lives up to its promise.
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NewsJoining the union
This 2,250sq m HQ for the engineer trade union Prospect, by architect Austin-Smith Lord, was topped out last week.
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Opinion
Political intrigue
In your article on the Venice Architecture Biennale (News Analysis May 12), you quote Fred Manson's response that "if architects want to be political they should join political parties". Is this a misquote? I can't believe that so enlightened a figure would make this point.
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Opinion
Offensive image
I am quite certain Jan Maciag's comment (Letters May 19) will cause wide and deep offence.
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OpinionIan Martin
By placing publicly commissioned lumps of art at nodal points on the city's energy lines you can unblock the ‘urban chi'
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NewsSuffolk house keeps low profile
This house designed by CCD Architects for a conservation area in Aldeburgh in Suffolk, has been granted planning permission.
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Opinion
Good job too
Brighton University did not "score nil" for students' job prospects in the Education Guardian's league tables for architecture.
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Opinion
Not so free state
I have just returned from a teaching engagement at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Along with other schools of architecture there, it enjoys RIBA validation which enables part II students to be overseas members of the RIBA and, in theory, eligible to take part III and ...
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NewsViews from the Foredeck
David Chipperfield Architects has collaborated with Barcelona-based b720 Arquitectos to design the America's Cup Foredeck Building in Valencia, Spain, now nearing completion after an eight-month construction schedule.
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Technical
A feast of light
Elaine Knutt reports on the lighting design for Tadao Ando's new Morimoto restaurant in New York
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NewsRIAS drops proposal to relocate
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has abandoned plans to relocate from its Rutland Square offices in Edinburgh. Four years after a working group was set up to investigate possible new homes, the RIAS has decided to stay put rather than go to Reiach & Hall's Evolution House in ...
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TechnicalI wish I'd done that... Lighting
Martin Lupton on Maurice Bill Lighting Design's Finsbury Avenue Square