All Building Design articles in 01 June 2007 – Page 2
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CompetitionsHoliday let - Riverside cottage in idyllic rural SW France.
Riverside cottage in tranquil hamlet in National Park of the Cevennes.Sleeps 2/3
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Features
Description of diploma Unit 2 at the AA
We will continue an ongoing investigation into multi-scalar flow remediation strategies that attempt to merge the cultural with the environmental, moving beyond pure optimisation strategies to cultivate a breeding ground for the exotic and the novel. For this, the unit will work on developing formal performance organisations that negotiate between ...
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Review
Jan Kaplicky in his book Confessions: Principles, architecture, process, life
What is here to confess? All? Something? Nothing? It is all about what you feel inside, as architect, as individual, as man? How to express your feelings within your work? How to resist so many wrong temptations? Commercial pressures. Financial needs. Comforts. Glory. Poverty. Survival. Attacks. Jealousy. Arrogance. Very rarely ...
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Features
Description of diploma Unit 19 at the Bartlett
If we see our interaction with digital technologies and their peculiar landscapes as smears, then the more advanced a technology the more easy it is for us to smear them across virtual and actual geographies. We smudge our smears across space-time across the landscape and through machines. Where they are ...
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Features
Daniel Libeskind accepting his honorary doctorate from Berlin's Humboldt University
What ineffable - immeasurable power of building in the city! The epiphany of the constructible is the strange sucking of the earth's axis. In the realm of architecture, ideas having stared at Medusa turn to stone. Here it is matter which carries the aura of ideas - ideas which metastatize ...
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News
Zaha's Hadid Architects press release on the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre
Growth-simulation processes have been used to develop spatial representations into a set of basic geometries and then superimposed with programmatic diagrams into a series of repeated cycles.
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Features
Three bits of waffle from Foreign Office Architects' website
"…the site explores the theme of nomadic inhabitation…reflecting the lives of the travellers who colonise it for a while…”“our proposal intends to constitute itself as an alternative to the rational geometry approximations that intend to reproduce the picturesque qualities of nature…”“our proposal explores the strategies that produce organisational complex landscapes ...
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News
Axis Design Collective
From Axis Design Collective's entry into the 2006 Euroclad Drawing competition, which asked entrants to "sketch a fresh look for Brighton’s West Pier"
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Opinion
An email sent to bdonline (via Babel Fish perhaps?)
Dear Sir or MadameI please it around fast information to a meeting today, with which on an auction architectural drawings are to be auctioneered. I read an invitation in the entrance hall of the RIBA for the opening of the South African exhibition in addition times. Is this meeting today ...
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NewsNews Junkie: 2 and 3 June
This week: how to build a FAT sandcastle, why rooks need fag ends, what a Heteropolitan looks like and how Thatchers' Britain is making a comeback.
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News
PFI hospitals budget is slashed by £4 billion
Architects say work is drying up for large PFI projects
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MultimediaPodcast: Foster and Sheard on Wembley Stadium
Listen to the third in the Architecture Foundation's Real Architecture series and hear Norman Foster and Rod Sheard discuss the design of Wembley Stadium
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Building StudyThe history of the Royal Festival Hall refurbishment
BD charts the progress of Allies and Morrison's Royal Festival Hall revamp
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OpinionPublicity is vital
So Michael Peters of Identica (offices in Canada, UK, USA & China), whose mission statement is “discover, create, optimise the brand experience”, has reacted to our petition with the threat that we “are going to burn our bridges with a number of developers — Israeli, British and European”.
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Opinion
Political points
The RIBA, led by Jack Pringle, continues its fight for political correctness. In a primarily white society, it is not surprising that this is reflected in the make-up of the profession. Most architects achieve middle-class status, and the relatively small percentage of women members arises from a complex social history.
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News
South Yorkshire museum opens
Grade I listed Cusworth Hall in Doncaster has reopened to the public following the £7 million restoration by historic building specialist Purcell Miller Tritton.