Anna Winston Editorial
Building Design
Anna Winston is the head of BD Digital and online editor. She is also responsible for the monthly IT section in the weekly print edition of BD. You can email her on anna.winston@ubm.com or call her on 020 7921 8211
Stories by this contributor.
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Architect's Eye photography competition winners revealed
12 June 2013
Two architects named as overall winners, after record breaking number of entries received
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The top 10 rules for designing an architect's website
5 June 2013
Architects’ websites are often badly organised and weighed down by gimmicks. Don’t make yours a sorry site.
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Alastair Parvin at TED: Architecture for the people by the people
29 May 2013
What if, instead of architects creating buildings for those who can afford to commission them, regular citizens could design and build their own houses?
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Architect's Eye photography competition: the shortlist
28 May 2013
BD reveals the 20 images taken by architects that made the cut this year
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Flythrough: OMA designs a new home for the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen
22 May 2013
Can OMA’s stacked volumes outshine Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s Black Diamond?
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Join ARStudio and BD for an architectural five-a-side football playoff
21 May 2013
Get a team together and play in aid of Shelter, the housing charity
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Livestream: May Design Series - Conversation Series
20 May 2013
Can’t make it to Excel or missed out on registering for one of the talks? You can watch them all here live…
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Are these the UK's worst buildings ever?
20 May 2013
As nominations open for Carbuncle Cup 2013, we look back at the worst of the winners from the history of the award that architects love to hate and invite you to vote for your ‘favourite’
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Win a LEGO Architecture Villa Savoye kit
17 May 2013
Enter our free draw to win a mini Le Corbusier kit
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Why BD doesn't offer unpaid internships
17 May 2013
If you can’t afford to pay your interns then you can’t afford to have them, says Anna Winston
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Carbuncle Cup 2013 open for nominations
17 May 2013
The UK’s most controversial architecture prize is back
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Dismantling the Olympic Park
9 May 2013
Time-lapse footage of 100 days of the transformation of the Olympic Park into legacy mode is surprisingly fascinating
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“The remarkable thing to me is how optimistic students of architecture are.”
6 May 2013
A new film from the US shines a thoughtful, critical light on the architecture education studio system with interviews from Shigeru Ban, Thom Mayne and Aecom CEO Jow Brown
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Five things every architect should know about copyright
2 May 2013
A bill to modernise UK copyright law has been given Royal Assent but will it protect architects?
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Every project on the Aga Khan award for Architecture shortlist
1 May 2013
20 nominees have been selected by judges including David Adjaye and Wang Shu for the $1 million architecture prize
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"People see the effect but they don't see how it's done"
30 April 2013
Peter Veale will reveal some of Firefly Lighting Design’s secrets at this year’s May Design Series
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An eyeful of Herzog & de Meuron's Messe Basel New Hall
29 April 2013
Opened just in time for this year’s Baselworld fair, the new hall building makes a dramatic statement
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What's the biggest challenge in building a mile-high tower?
29 April 2013
CTBUH asked a number of industry leaders for their answer…
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Topshop Show Space, London, by 42 Architects
24 April 2013
London-based practice 42 Architects acted as architects and art directors to transform the Tate Modern Tanks into a fashion show space as part of London Fashion Week A/W 2013
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"We can't live without space and light"
24 April 2013
Kevin McCloud backs the RIBA’s campaign for minimum space, energy, security and light standards in new homes
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Tea with an Architect returns to Excel
24 April 2013
Gabrielle Omar’s public-facing initiative to win more work for architects is coming to the May Design Series
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Rick Mather: a built legacy
23 April 2013
BD looks back at some of the best work from one of British architecture’s most beloved figures
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Infographic: Architecture - a divided profession?
18 April 2013
A preview of the RIBA’s benchmarking survey reveals that 40% of architectural staff are employed by just 3% of the practices in the UK - find out more with our interactive infographic
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Architects take over Regent Street's windows
17 April 2013
Six unique installations give architects the opportunity to put their work in front of millions of shoppers
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"Designing Halley VI completely changed my life"
17 April 2013
Hugh Broughton will reveal more about the challenge of designing a research station for polar environments at the May Design Series
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Bo Zen Bar, Braga, by Central Arquitectos
12 April 2013
Central Arquitectos has developed an elegant solution to a cahllenging biref: create a club that feels like a private living room
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Foster to re-design the Apple store - but can he improve on the perfect formula?
11 April 2013
Plus find out how they pull off the engineering behind those signature Apple store glass staircases
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What you should know about the architecture 'Design of the Year'
10 April 2013
Tour Bois-le-Prêtre in Paris by Frederic Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Phillipe Vassal has been named architecture Design of the Year by the UK’s Design Museum
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Grace Belgravia, London, by Studio RHE
10 April 2013
A Grade II listed building in central London is transofrmed into the city’s first ever women’s only private members club
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Five things Margaret Thatcher did (or didn't do) for architecture
8 April 2013
Thatcher is a divisive figure among architects, but there’s no denying her impact on the architecture profession was huge
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Hypernuit Offices, Paris, by H2O Architectes
3 April 2013
H2O Architectes get creative with blocks in response to a tight and demanding brief for design agency Hypernuit
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Karim Rashid and Christina Seilern confirmed for Conversation Series
3 April 2013
Leading design thinkers among line-up for free talks programme at May Design Series
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A glossy take on the Southbank revamp by Feilden Clegg Bradley
3 April 2013
Documentary style video aims to convince the public that the controversial development will enhance the history of the Southbank Centre
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Win a ticket to an exclusive BD tour of the Sainsbury Laboratory by Stanton Williams
2 April 2013
Join BD’s executive editor Ellis Woodman and Stanton Williams associate Caryl Stephens for an access all areas tour of the Stirling Prize winning Sainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University
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Are cycling cities civilised?
26 March 2013
A group of British architects are cycling from Portland, Oregon, to Portland Place London over four months - what on earth are they thinking?
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Pevsner's glossary coming to a phone near you
22 March 2013
Yale University Press previews the first Pevsner app
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Nine things in the budget that could be good for architects...
20 March 2013
…and four things that should have been better
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MIPIM 2013: Boris's future vision for London
13 March 2013
London’s mayor battles through the snow to share his vision for London’s urban fabric and a few digs at France’s tax regime
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Top ranking architects in the UK – March 2013
13 March 2013
The most active architecture practices in the UK based on the value of projects that have received planning permission*
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Architecture employment in 2013 - an infographic
11 March 2013
Which regions have the biggest number of unemployed architects, how many claim jobseekers allowance and are the numbers different for Part Is, IIs and IIIs?
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Documentary chronicles competition between Nouvel, Gehry, Hadid, Perrault and Foster
4 March 2013
Swearing, turning models upside down to see if they look better and crumpling bits of paper up as design inspiration: a look behind the scenes at the competitions process for some of the world’s biggest architects
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Ab Rogers reveals May Design Series Concept
4 March 2013
RCA interiors head unveils playful design for “a new type of trade show”
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The #BDTwitter100 2013: the most useful tweeters in architecture
1 March 2013
Our pick of the 100 best tweeters for architects to follow
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#BDTwitter100 2013: top 10 architects
1 March 2013
The 10 best architects to follow on Twitter now
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#BDTwitter100 2013: top 10 architecture practices
28 February 2013
The best architecture practices to follow on Twitter now
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#BDTwitter100 2013: top 10 architectural education tweeters
28 February 2013
The student groups, architecture schools and lecturers worth following on Twitter
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#BDTwitter100 2013: top 10 sustainability tweeters
27 February 2013
Architects, consultants and journalists have come together on Twitter to create a unique network of specialists around sustainability in architecture and the built environment.
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Junya Ishigami: How small? How vast? How architecture grows
27 February 2013
The architect reveals the inspiration behind his latest exhibition at the deSingel in Antwerp
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#BDTwitter100 2013: top 10 heritage tweeters
27 February 2013
A small but vocal commuity of heritage tweeters is connecting the dots between architects, sustianability specialists and our architectural heritage
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#BDTwitter100 2013: top 10 consultants
26 February 2013
The consultants nominated for thie year’s listings include some of the most useful on Twitter
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#BDTwitter100 2013: top 10 bim tweeters
25 February 2013
The bim community on twitter is one of the most tangible and active groups relevant to architects in the UK.
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Renzo Piano: "I don't really remember the reason why The Shard is so tall. I don't really care."
22 February 2013
Renzo Piano reveals more about the design of London’s most controversial new building - the height of which just ‘happened by chance’
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#BDTwitter100 2013: the 10 most nominated
21 February 2013
As we pull together hundreds of public nominations for our Twitter 100, these are the accounts that received the most nominations
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#Flitched - the winning presentations
19 February 2013
See the full presentations from the winners of the #Flitched competition
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Help us uncover the truth about the state of employment in architecture
18 February 2013
Take our employment survey and be in with a chance of winning a LEGO® Architecture kit
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Top ranking architects in the UK – February 2013
18 February 2013
The most active architecture practices in the UK based on the value of projects that have received planning permission*
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Win tickets to the Prototyping Architecture conference and dinner
6 February 2013
From 3D printing to space simulation: discover how the latest technological innovations are changing design development
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The BD app is changing
4 February 2013
Making your reading experience even better
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Architect's Eye photography competition launches
1 February 2013
Unique competition open to all UK architects
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Open for nominations - The #BDTwitter100 2013
1 February 2013
Who are the most useful people on Twitter?
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The #BDTwitter100 - a crash guide
1 February 2013
How the list is being compiled, how to be nominated and more about PeerIndex
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A step closer to the printed house?
30 January 2013
Architects are experimenting with 3D printing but the technology may have met its match
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Is this the year of bim?
29 January 2013
Enthusiastic bim adopters blazing a trail for UK architects
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Top ranking architects in the UK – January 2013
23 January 2013
The most active architecture practices in the UK based on the value of projects that have received planning permission*
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Framed in Steel: Co-operative headquarters
15 January 2013
3DReid, Buro Happold and BAM Construction discuss the design and build of this group head office structure
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Framed in Steel: The Peace Bridge
8 January 2013
Ilex Urban Regeneration Company, Rowecord Engineering and Wilkinson Eyre discuss the architectural design and engineering on this landmark structure across the River Foyle
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Framed in Steel: Neo Bankside
7 January 2013
Explore the use of steel in Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners unique residential apartments on London’s South Bank
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Framed in Steel: The Walbrook Building
4 January 2013
Foster & Partners, Arup and William Hare discuss the design, specification and construction in this first installment of Framed in Steel
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Video: Inside Herzog & de Meuron's Miami car park
3 January 2013
How to inject some glamour into the grey concrete world of parking
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How to get the World Architecture 100 2013
27 December 2012
How to get your hands on a copy of the world’s only international architect rankings and find out who’s made it to number one in 2013
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Top 10 architects' career problems of 2012
27 December 2012
From handling nightmare bosses to sexism in the workplace, whether you should work for free and bad terms of employment, our career doctor tackled them all
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Top ranking architects in the UK – December 2012
19 December 2012
The most active architecture practices in the UK based on the value of projects that have received planning permission*
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The top 10 blogs of 2012
19 December 2012
From Ryan Gosling’s architectural chat up lines to zero carbon definitions and the 10 things architecture school can teach you, our bloggers covered a wide variety of topics in 2012…
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The Top 10 architecture stories of 2012
18 December 2012
The articles you’ve read the most over the past 12 months including Carbuncle Cup, Arb’s Renzo Piano declaration, Hadid’s Aquatic kerfuffle and RMJM chaos.
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The top 10 Building and Technical studies of 2012
17 December 2012
From Doha to the top of the Shard via Poundbury and the Olympic Park - the projects you most wanted to know about this year included work by Peter Barber, Renzo Piano and Rogers Stirk Harbour
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Assemble & Join: making manufacturing cool
27 November 2012
Could one CNC machine finally launch the maker movement in the UK?
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Deadline looms for Robin Hood Gardens
21 November 2012
Architects invited to enter for next two phases of project to replace Smithson-designed estate but risk wrath of boycotters
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Designhive's cheeky solution to the problem of MPs' second homes
20 November 2012
A government funded apartment block could save the taxpayer a fortune
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Top ranking architects in the UK – November 2012
14 November 2012
The most active architecture practices in the UK based on the value of projects that have received planning permission*
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Is this the future of UK school design?
8 November 2012
Willmott Dixon releases time lapse following construction of an Atkins-designed standardised school
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New York: 'It's a different city when the lights go out'
7 November 2012
Eerie time-lapse video of post-hurricane city reveals another side to the city
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In pictures: YAYA shortlisting party
30 October 2012
Young architects from across the UK gathered at the Jerwood Space in London for the announcement of the YAYA shortlist
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Urban activist sentenced to jail for disrupting boat race
19 October 2012
Online architecture community condemns jail sentence for Trenton Oldfield
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Finger pointed at OMA's gallery design in art heist
17 October 2012
Security expert describes Kunsthal Rotterdam as ‘nightmare to protect’
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In pictures: Stirling Prize reception and after party
15 October 2012
Didn’t make it to this year’s awards do in Manchester? Bdonline brings you all the action…
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Christian Pottgiesser architecturespossibles wins Manser Medal 2012
13 October 2012
Manser lays into housing industry during awards presentation
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Wilkinson Eyre scoops Lubetkin Prize with Guangzhou International Finance Centre
13 October 2012
Practice can add new award to mantelshelf alongside two previous Stirling Prize wins
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How to lose gracefully: a guide for architects
13 October 2012
BD’s five point guide to the art of losing well
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The Stirling Prize in statistics — where will you place your bet?
12 October 2012
Chipperfield’s Hepworth is declared the bookies’ favourite, but statistically OMA could be the most likely to scoop the Stirling on Saturday night
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Top ranking architects in the UK – October 2012
10 October 2012
The most active architecture practices in the UK based on the value of projects that have received planning permission*
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Video: The #BDTweetup comes to Winchester
9 October 2012
More than 50 local architects attended social networking event to help raise funds for Article 25 and the Architects Benevolent Society
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Life Class with Ole Scheeren
17 September 2012
Ole Scheeren on Rem Koolhaas, Beijing and growing up dismantling buildings
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Building One World Trade Centre: time-lapse video
12 September 2012
Webcam company Earthcam captures two years of construction on SOM’s tower
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Top ranking architects in the UK – September 2012
11 September 2012
The most active architecture practices in the UK based on the value of projects that have received planning permission*
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Lina Bo Bardi: Together
11 September 2012
The British Council is the first to host this travelling tribute to Bo Bardi as part of the London Design Festival, with a temporary space designed by Assemble
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Venice video: The British Pavilion
11 September 2012
Head of architecture at the British Council and pavilion curator Vicky Richardson on the inspiration behind this year’s British Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale
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Venice video: Reinier de Graaf on OMA's Public Works: Architecture by Civil Servants exhibition
10 September 2012
The OMA partner on celebrating the ideological architecture of the 60s and 70s
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Has Louis Vuitton taken us one step closer to carbon fibre shell architecture?
6 September 2012
Architect Marc Fornes and engineers AKTII collaborate on latest LV installation at Selfridges for the Yayoi Kusama collection
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Venice video: Crimson Architectural Historians
5 September 2012
Michelle Provoost on the “banality of common good”
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Venice video: Norman Foster on his Biennale installations
4 September 2012
Foster’s installations celebrate public space in very different ways…
