All Building Design articles in BD Magazine - Public Buildings - October 2006
BD Magazine - Public Buildings - October 2006-
Features‘It’s about using your existing skills to hop sector’
As Glas Architects tries make the leap from residential and office schemes into public-sector work, Keith Williams suggests some stepping stones instead
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Building Study
Barbican refurbishment by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Never again will culture-going Londoners miss the beginning of a Barbican performance: AHMM leads them through the muddled maze via new ‘portals’ and pedestrian routes
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Features‘The Olympics sparked the idea for the joint venture’Alan Field, Allgood marketing manager
When we looked at the Olympic project — the stadium, the Olympic Village, the training and performance venues — we realised that there needs to be a consistent security system between them all.
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FeaturesArchitect’s answer to plug-in i(nfo)pod
We’re now all used to iPods, but could the JMArchitects’ pod also become a familiar sight on our streets?
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Building StudyRoyal Court, Guernsey by Nicholas Hare Architects
At Guernsey’s new Royal Court complex, the majesty of the law is given a commanding hill-top position and a contemporary welcoming feel
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FeaturesHampstead Theatre, Bennetts Associates
Bennetts Associates director Simon Erridge critiques how the Hampstead Theatre has performed since opening night three years ago
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Features
Only the best will keep the public coming back
Modern life is full of paradoxes. On the one hand, tech-nology allows us to build our own private virtual worlds based on textmates, downloads and myspace.com.
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FeaturesBreathing room
The Civic Museum in Galway, designed by architects from Ireland’s Office of Public Works, is hiding a secret under its facade.
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FeaturesNational Maritime Museum Cornwall, Long and Kentish
Four years on, Rolfe Kentish of Long & Kentish returns to Cornwall’s National Maritime Museum to see whether everything is shipshape
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FeaturesWhy do we create grand spaces
I am, not surprisingly, interested in the design of public buildings, sitting as I do in an office in the National Gallery overlooking the new public space of Trafalgar Square now transformed from a torrent of double-decker buses into an open, more continental plaza.
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Features
The numbers game
£80 million is available to libraries in England and Wales to transform their buildings into modern communication hubs.
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FeaturesRecycling goes underground
Did you know that the 15,000sq m of glossy black and white tiles used in the refurbishment of London’s Oxford Circus tube station are in fact a reincarnation of the old tiles, removed after 25 years’ service?
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FeaturesRecycling goes underground
Did you know that the 15,000sq m of glossy black and white tiles used in the refurbishment of London’s Oxford Circus tube station are in fact a reincarnation of the old tiles, removed after 25 years’ service?
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FeaturesShoot for the gold
Most architects’ dreams of an Olympic gold commission are fading, but the Office of Subversive Architecture has sidestepped the ODA and awarded itself an Olympic project of its own.
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FeaturesLoyd Grossman
‘We have a legacy of fabulous work in Liverpool' says the chairman of Liverpool's national museum's trust
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FeaturesRIBA turns to reality TV with Living Landmarks
Science Museum’s Swindon Centre by William McDonough & Partners.