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Video report: Westminster Academy by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Five years in the making, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s newly-designed Westminster Academy has earned a ringing endorsement from our critic Ellis Woodman. The building, offering a break with traditional school design, is a colourful intervention in a bleak corner of west London.
For the first in our new series of videos created exclusively for bdonline, we take a tour of Westminster Academy. The building’s architect, AHMM director Paul Monaghan, explains the ethos behind the school, the factors driving the design and his choice of materials.
Interviews: Zoë Blackler
Camera and edit: Kevin Curtis
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Building Study: Building study: Ellis Woodman reviews Westminster Academy
Products focus: Find out more about the products AHMM specified to prevent vandalism to the building envelope and bullying in the toilets.
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Slideshows: 2012 Olympic stadium
HOK Sport and Peter Cook's long-awaited designs for the 2012 Olympic stadium place a clear emphasis on functionality and flexibility rather than iconic architecture.
View the design as two slideshows created by Team Macarie.
Download video 1 (MOV, 1.38 MB)
Download video 2 (MOV, 2.09 MB)
Download for Ipod video 1 (MP4, 1.8 MB)
Download for Ipod video 2 (MP4, 2.3 MB)
News HOK's Olympic design stadium revealed
Opinion Stadium disappoints all round, says Amanda Baillieu
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Video report: BD's Architect of the Year Awards
Watch Zoë Blackler's video report from Thursday night's Architect of the Year Awards ceremony at the London Hilton
Reporter: Zoë Blackler
Cameraman and editor: Kevin Curtis
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News Full coverage of BDs Architect of the Year Awards 2007
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Film clips: Gillespie Kidd & Coia
A major retrospective of the work of Gillespie Kidd & Coia, which opens at Glasgow's Lighthouse this week, features two films about Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein.
Watch four clips from the films made by Metzstein's son, film-maker and BD columnist Saul Metzstein.
- Beginnings, taken from Lessons in Architecture: MacMillan and Metzstein in conversation with fellow Scottish architect Mark Cousins.
- Hull from Lessons in Architecture: Mini-lecture on The Lawns Halls of Residence, University of Hull (1968) by Isi Metzstein.
- Glenrothes, taken from Lessons in Architecture: Mini-lecture on St Paul's Glenrothes, Fife (1957) by Andy MacMillan.
- Clip from Slide-in, a film in which MacMillan and Metzstein discuss slides of buildings. In this clip they talk about castles and heavy buildings as opposed to the light architecture being built in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Download Beginnings (MOV, 68.5 MB)
Download Hull (MOV, 22.5 MB)
Download Glenrothes (MOV, 31.4 MB)
Download Slide-in (MOV, 27.7 MB)
Download for Ipod Beginnings (MP4, 21 MB)
Download for Ipod Hull (MP4, 7.5 MB)
Download for Ipod Glenrothes (MP4, 11 MB)
Download for Ipod Slide-in (MP4, 8.5 MB)
Review, images, book extract Gillespie Kidd and Coia show opens at the Lighthouse
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Video interview: Oscar Niemeyer
In a specially recorded interview for the RIBA International conference Oscar Niemeyer, who is 100 in December, looks back on his long career, the problems of working with Corbusier, and his latest project in Brasilia.
Filmed by the RIBA’s head of awards Tony Chapman, the interview opened the conference which was held October 26 to 27 in the French Communist Party headquarters in Paris designed by Niemeyer while in exile in Paris from 1964 to the end of the 70s.
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Time-lapse video: The installation of Big 4
Watch designer Freestate's Big 4 sculpture take shape at Channel 4’s London HQ
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Digital animation: Zaha Hadid’s JVC Hotel in Guadalajara
Experience Zaha Hadid’s design for the JVC Hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico with an animated video created by architectural digital animators Neutral.
An exhibition of Neutral’s work, Moving Space, runs at the Architecture Foundation's Yard Gallery between September 14 and October 13.
More details on the show are in our Events Listing.
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Slideshow: Postcards from the Edge - Morecambe Promenade
In our new series of audio slideshows, writer Ian Martin and photographer Adam Turtle will be blundering through the built environment looking for the bits that are odd or good or sad or licensed
In Slideshow 1: Morecambe Promenade, Martin and Turtle encounter a classic Modernist hotel shrouded in scaffolding, civic landscaping as a form of Municipal Stalinism, some ghostly abandoned funfairs, and the melancholy twilight world of an amusement arcade, where even the machines have tattooes.
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AF Gold Lectures: Michael Howe and Alex Ely interview Geoffrey Darke
In the final lecture of the series that sees a promising young architect interviewing a figure of their choosing who was instrumental in post-war reconstruction, Michael Howe and Alex Ely of the Mae interview Geoffrey Darke, designer successful 1960s housing schemes such as Lillington Road, Pimlico.
The talk is introduced by BD's buildings editor Ellis Woodman, who curated the series with the Architecture Foundation, and was recorded at BDP in London's Clerkenwell on August 8.
For more details visit www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
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Feature The young architects in the Gold Lecture series explain what they hoped to learn from their architectural heroes
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AF Gold Lectures: Charlie Sutherland and Charlie Hussey of Sutherland Hussey interview Isi Metzstein
In the third in a series of lectures that sees a promising young architect interviewing a figure of their choosing who was instrumental in post-war reconstruction, Charlie Sutherland and Charlie Hussey of the Sutherland Hussey interview Isi Metzstein, about the Macallan Club for architects whose buildings have been demolished during their lifetime.
The talk is introduced by BD's buildings editor Ellis Woodman, who curated the series with the Architecture Foundation, and was recorded at BDP in London's Clerkenwell on August 1
The final Gold Lecture will also be available to download. To receive it subscribe to the Podcast.
- Michael Howe and Alex Ely of Mae will interview Geoffrey Darke (August 8)
For more details visit www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
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Feature The young architects in the Gold Lecture series explain what they hoped to learn from their architectural heroes
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Three short films on the making of the Panopticons
Follow the construction of Tonkin Liu's Singing Ringing Tree, Colourfields by Jo Rippon Architecture with Sophie Smallhorn, and Atom by Peter Meacock with Katarina Novomestska and Architecture Central Workshop in three short films that document the East Lancashire Panopticons project.
Download Singing Ringing Tree (Quicktime MOV, 24.4 MB)
Download Colourfields (Quicktime MOV, 28.2 MB)
Download Atom (Quicktime MOV, 31.4 MB)
Download for Ipod Singing Ringing Tree (MP4, 27.8 MB)
Download for Ipod Colourfields (MP4, 32 MB)
Download for Ipod Atom (MP4, 35 MB)
Download Singing Ringing Tree (Windows Media WMV, 30.3 MB)
Download Colourfields (Windows Media WMV, 34.6 MB)
Download Atom (Windows Media WMV, 37.6 MB)
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AF Gold Lectures: Geoff Shearcroft interviews Derek Walker
In the second in a series of lectures that sees a promising young architect interviewing a figure of their choosing who was instrumental in post-war reconstruction, Geoff Shearcroft of the AOC interviews Derek Walker, former chief architect for the Milton Keynes Development Corporation. As Milton Keynes celebrates its 40th anniversary, hear them discuss building the new city and what lessons it can teach today's housing architects.
The talk is introduced by BD's buildings editor Ellis Woodman, who curated the series with the Architecture Foundation, and was recorded at BDP in London's Clerkenwell on July 25.
The remaining Gold Lectures will also be available to download. To receive them subscribe to the Podcast.
- Charlie Sutherland and Charlie Hussey of Sutherland Hussey will interview Isi Metzstein (August 1)
- Michael Howe and Alex Ely of Mae will interview Geoffrey Darke (August 8)
For more details visit www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
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Special Report Milton Keynes at 40: past, present and future for Britain’s favourite new town.
Feature The young architects in the Gold Lecture series explain what they hoped to learn from their architectural heroes
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Peter Märkli talk at London Met
See a short clip from Peter Märkli's 4-hour lecture given at the London Metropolitan University last November. Entitled Peter Märkli Architektur Fest it was divided into two parts: (1) On Ancient Architecture (2) On his Own Work.
To buy the complete DVD organised and published by the Architecture Research Unit at London Metropolitan University, visit the ARU website.
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Feature Read Ellis Woodman's profile of Peter Märkli
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AF Gold Lectures: Silvia Ullmayer interviews Neave Brown
In the first in a series of lectures that sees a promising young architect interviewing a figure of their choosing who was instrumental in post-war reconstruction, Silvia Ullmayer of Ullmayer Sylvester interviews Neave Brown. Hear them discuss Brown's most prominent project, Alexander Road in London's St John's Wood and building their own north London homes.
The talk is introduced by BD's buildings editor Ellis Woodman, who curated the series with the Architecture Foundation, and was recorded at BDP in London's Clerkenwell on July 18.
Future Gold Lectures will be available to download soon. To receive them subscribe to the Podcast.
- Geoff Shearcroft of AOC will interview Derek Walker (July 25)
- Charlie Sutherland and Charlie Hussey of Sutherland Hussey will interview Isi Metzstein (August 1)
- Michael Howe and Alex Ely of Mae will interview Geoffrey Darke (August 8)
For more details visit www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
Download (MP3, 62.6 MB)
Feature The young architects in the Gold Lecture series explain what they hoped to learn from their architectural heroes
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Animated fly-through: Hopkins' Olympic Velodrome
Hopkins Architects has won the competition to design a velodrome for the 2012 London Olympics. Watch an animated fly-through of the winning design.
Download hi-fi (Quicktime MOV, 21.9 MB)
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Download low-fi (Quicktime MOV, 3.82 MB)
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Report Read our report about Hopkins' velodrome win
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Video animation: London 2010
Experience the future with a 3D animated flyover of the capital. Developed by architectural visualisation specialists GMJ, it shows London as it will be once the Shard, the Helter Skelter and the Cheese Grater add fresh drama to the city's skyline.
Download hi-fi (Quicktime MOV, 14.9 MB)
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Peter Cook presents the Store Street lectures: Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour
The second of our new monthly series of talks hosted by Peter Cook features Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners' directors Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour.
Stirk's projects include Lloyds Register, 88 Wood Street and the proposed 122 Leadenhall Street skyscraper while Harbour led the design on the Welsh Assembly, the Mossborne Community Academy and the Law Courts at Antwerp and Bordeaux.'
Hear them share their thoughts on becoming partners of one of the most prestigious international design offices.
Recorded at the Building Centre Store Street on Monday, May 14.
Download Part 1: The presentation (MP3, 27.2 MB)
Download Part 2: The discussion (MP3, 58.7 MB)
PDF View accompanying images (MP3, 8.91 MB)
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Peter Cook presents the Store Street lectures: Kathryn Findlay and Nigel Coates
In the first of a new series of monthly lectures at London's Building Centre, hear Cook in conversation with Kathryn Findlay and Nigel Coates talking about Japan and naughty architecture.
Download the slideshows to view images illustrating the talks.
Download (MP3, 56.8 MB)
Slideshow Kathryn Findlay: images (PPT, 10.2 MB)
Slideshow Nigel Coates: images (PPT, 12.8 MB)
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Monica Pidgeons unique archive
A unique archive of slides and audio footage recorded by the legendary architectural editor Monica Pidgeon, 93, is now available to access online. The archive, gathered over nearly thirty years, features talks by major figures including Frank Gehry, Cedric Price and Buckminster Fuller.
Wordsearch director Peter Murray has been collaborating with Pidgeon to digitise the material to make it accessible from anywhere in the world for an annual subscription fee.
Buckminster Fuller on his environmental philosophy (MP3, 1.14 MB)
Reyner Banham on the myths behind modernism (MP3, 380 KB)
Peter Rice on becoming an engineer by accident (MP3, 422 KB)
Harry Seidler on fashion in architecture (MP3, 1.40 MB)
Cedric Price on his Fun Palace (MP3, 594 KB)
Denys Lasdun on being inspired by Corbusiers Pavillon Suisse (MP3, 672 KB)
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Charles Jencks in conversation
Thirty years on from the publication of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, its author explains why we are all modernists now.
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YAYA: The 2006 shortlist
This year's Young Architect of the Year Award will be launched on May 4th. View the video for last year's YAYA which was made by Nic Clear and students from The Bartlett and was shown at the Architect of the Year Awards ceremony last November.
The film begins with the announcement of the YAYA shortlist at the New London Architecture Centre in October, and ends with the final judging when each of the five listed practices are asked to present their work to the judges.
The judges in 2006 were: Paul Monaghan (chair), Nigel Coates, Spencer de Grey, Alison Brookes, Amanda Baillieu and Gwyn Miles.
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Flythrough: Rafael Vinoly's "walkie-talkie"
The inquiry into Rafael Vinoly's "walkie-talkie" skyscraper planned for Fenchurch Street in the City of London opened on Tuesday 6 March. Watch the architects flythrough of the proposed building.
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Luigi Colani in conversation
An exhibition of the work of German-born designer Luigi Colani has opened at the Design Museum. Hear Luigi Colani talk about sex, men's hands and Zaha Hadid
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Winter Nights Episode 2 Gianni Botsford Architects 31 January 2007
Gianni Botsford focuses on his Light House scheme in west London to illustrate how research into computer-generated solar form has been applied to GBAs work. The firms philosophy of local adaptation has also been applied to a fourth-placed competition entry for the Estonian National Museum and a masterplan in the south of France.
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Winter Nights Episode 1 Urban Design Studio 24 January 2007
Hannah Carter and Brian Studak, senior designers at interior architecture firm UDS, discuss the practices emergence from furniture designers Barber Osgerby and the changing nature of architectural patronage, following experience working on Victor Huangs unrealised plans for Battersea power station.
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Architects for Aid - Video report
Architects for Aid has been dispatching architects to some of the world's most embattled places to assist with disaster relief and reconstruction.
In BD's first video report, Zoë Blackler travelled to Maputo, capital of Mozambique to report on a project to build a brighter future for the city's street children.
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Open
House Contemporary
Episode 4
Listen to young architects Stephen Witherford and William Mann, runners-up in BD's Young Architect of the Year Award 2005, on designing Amnesty International UK's new headquarters and how the experience informed their social housing projects in the Lower Lea Valley and Stonebridge Park. This is the fourth and final lecture in the Open House Contemporary Series supported by Corus.
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House Contemporary
Episode 3
Listen to RIBA presidential hopeful Sunand Prasad describe how the trouser effect is turning around failing schools and improving primary healthcare in the third in the Open House Contemporary Series supported by Corus.
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House Contemporary
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Chris Wilkinson speaking about his schools for the future design at the Arup Auditorium in Bristol on Wednesday June 7.
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House Contemporary
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Charles Holland of FAT talking about the recently unveiled New Islington scheme recorded earlier this week at Cube in Manchester. Hear how Terry got his fishpond and how oversized garden sheds create a sense of community.
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