All Student blogs articles

  • Old Taxi Park in Kampala
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    Rolex in Kampala

    2013-05-22T10:31:00Z

    The city’s multiple economies live side by side

  • Addis Ababa
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    African snapshots

    2013-05-06T10:27:00Z

    Disposable cameras are one way to record the realities of Cairo and Addis Ababa

  • Flatpack Palais under construction
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    Making it big

    2013-05-03T12:04:00Z

    Real-life construction is the true test of student skills

  • Blogs

    Bees for Cities

    2012-04-12T10:49:00Z

    “We need to remember the creepy crawlies things” was the message of the Architecture Foundation’s Inmidtown Habitats exhibition

  • Unfinished spaces- school of ballet, Cuba
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    Unfinished Spaces

    2012-02-16T08:34:00Z

    Throughout history, architecture has been used as a symbolic tool by the powerful

  • Herman Hertzberger
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    Student medals: from Aboriginal housing to robot dystopia

    2012-02-14T15:54:00Z

    The RIBA’s student award winners covered a broad spectrum of work in their crit with Herman Hertzberger

  • Conforming to the cliché
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    Miami – Paradise and Paradox

    2011-12-27T09:00:00Z

    Miami is a tale of two cities; Miami Beach: infamous playground of the rich; and its bitter, underdeveloped and forgotten creator; Greater Miami.

  • Pink question bdmag
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    The importance of knowing Why

    2011-12-22T08:42:00Z

    A visit to a studio in Rotterdam highlighted the different approaches to architectural education

  • Edible Park at The Hague
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    The organic nature of ideas

    2011-11-30T10:12:00Z

    Final year architecture student Sam Brown reveals how tentative beginnings can lead to using architecture to solve some of humankind’s most fundamental dilemmas

  • OMA Progress at the Barbican
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    The truth about exhibitions

    2011-11-08T10:48:00Z

    With several major architecture exhibitions underway in London, one student questions the value of what we tend to put on show

  • Graveyard growing beds
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    Live and let live

    2011-11-07T09:58:00Z

    Who gets the most of architecture schools’ live projects in the end?

  • Palazzo Argentina
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    View from the mountains

    2011-10-18T10:07:00Z

    A former UCL student has found a new perspective on design while studying in the quiet Swiss town Mendrisio

  • 12m drop
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    Additions and Alterations

    2011-10-18T09:31:00Z

    Changes are afoot at Plymouth as the new term kicks off…

  • Incredible Edible Todmorden - civil society action
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    Live and learn

    2011-10-07T15:48:00Z

    The ‘live projects’ initiative at Sheffield University raises vital questions about the purpose and suitability of architectural education

  • Questions raised are collated by live artists
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    Going round the houses

    2011-09-20T15:50:00Z

    A TEDx conference in Camden argues that linear thinking should be designed out of education

  • Drake Circus- Carbuncle cup 2006 winner
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    Learning from Drake Circus

    2011-09-01T16:13:00Z

    As BD’s Carbuncle Cup is awarded this week for the worst piece of architecture in Britain, I look back at the original ‘winner’ from 2006.

  • Back. And Forth.
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    Back. And Forth.

    2011-08-31T16:27:00Z

    Growing unrest in Israel’s Sinai border region had me reaching for the telephone and asking for an earlier flight

  • Brooms aloft for the riot clean up in Clapham
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    Riot Rebuild

    2011-08-22T15:29:00Z

    As the dust settles, our outrage is giving way to pragmatism, and we must begin to address the whys and hows

  • Eco Avant-garde by Heini Van Niekerk
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    Eco Avant-garde

    2011-08-19T10:04:00Z

    We should not forget that this planet is the only balance we have to maintain.

  • Museum of Liverpool
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    We should go out more….

    2011-08-17T10:40:00Z

    It’s all too easy to allow oneself to experience buildings through images alone