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Architects are under siege
Everyone wants good design but they’re not prepared to let architects get on with their job, says Mark Middleton
Post-modernism: It might be listed, but it’s not over
Po-mo spawned the era of post-truth but it also ushered in a freedom to explore ideas that we’re still enjoying today, says Ben Flatman
Building Study: The Royal Academy, London, by David Chipperfield Architects
Expanding Burlington House into Burlington Gardens is all about forging a strong link, says Ike Ijeh
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BD Digital Edition - April 2018
Highlights from April in a magazine format
Building Studies
Building Study: The Royal Academy, London, by David Chipperfield Architects
Building Study: Grange Primary School, London, by Maccreanor Lavington
Building Study: Old Bearhurst, East Sussex, by Carmody Groarke
Building Study: Centre Point, London, by Conran and Partners
Building Study: Bellenden Primary School, London, by Cottrell and Vermuelen
Building Study: BBC TV Centre, London, by AHMM
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Gallery: AYA 2018 winners
See all the winners of this year’s Architect of the Year Awards
Clancy Moore: Winning YAYA changes the way we think about ourselves
‘It’s an award with such a rich heritage,’ says BD’s Young Architect of 2018
Carmody Groarke crowned Architect of the Year
Full list of winners from BD’s Architect of the Year Awards 2018
Architects are under siege
Everyone wants good design but they’re not prepared to let architects get on with their job, says Mark Middleton
Post-modernism: It might be listed, but it’s not over
Po-mo spawned the era of post-truth but it also ushered in a freedom to explore ideas that we’re still enjoying today, says Ben Flatman
The convulsive power of a single piece of stone
Ivanka Trump unveiled a plaque at the new US embassy - and unleashed a bloody new chapter in Jerusalem’s long history of rancour
A short history of garbage housing
Gillian Darley recounts the radical story of the architecture journalist invited to advise a president on building mass housing from waste
Memo to the whole profession: Stop talking about design and focus on lobbying ministers
We’re just wasting our breath, says Martyn Evans
Will Alsop: He never stopped fighting for what he believed in
As the profession mourns the loss of one of its finest, we reprint this piece by Will Alsop from 2004, just after his Fourth Grace had been canned
Show us that you mean it, minister
Dominic Raab’s declaration that poor design should be refused planning is massive - if it turns out to be more than just words
Technical Feature
Technical study: The world's first 3D-printed house, by CLS Architetti
3D printing is fast breaking down conventional barriers in engineering and architecture and changing the way the industry operates
Inspirations
Roz Barr's inspiration: Coventry Cathedral, UK
Roz Barr explains how Spence’s radical approach to artistic collaboration and storytelling in the ruins of postwar Coventry has informed her own work
Planning has big problems. We think we've found a solution
In an age of austerity, planning departments need all the help they can get. Lend them the best talent from the private sector, says Pooja Agrawal
'A mash-up of high-tech, futurism and Blue Peter' - Ijeh on Alsop
Will Alsop was radical, daring and esoteric - but above all he brought a sense of fun to architecture
Review: Disappear Here by Sam Jacob
Nicholas de Klerk is drawn into the RIBA’s latest exhibition on perspective
What it took to become British
Brexit forced her hand but Barbara Weiss was not expecting it to be so difficult
'The best conservation projects require rigour and nerve'
Is pastiche always a dirty word? Roger Hunt, author of a new book on designing for old buildings, tackles some prejudices
A walk around: Alt-Erlaa, Vienna
In the second of an occasional series Robert Park visits an extraordinarily successful 1970s housing project
Talk, consult and above all involve local people – that’s the way to create popular housing
Why enquiry by design is the way to achieve the government’s goals
Portmania redux: The atrium king's crown slips
Architect John Portman, who died in December, had a dazzling reputation - constructed largely by himself
The enduring legacy of high-tech architecture
Ike Ijeh explores the origins, impact and legacy of one of architecture’s most enduring movements
Hyperdensity: can it work?
The NPPF and draft London Plan call for increased housing densities. Ike Ijeh looks at two schemes to see if the proposals measure up
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