All Building Design articles in 02 July 2010 – Page 4
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Opinion
Viñoly, Finch and redundancy fears
At Rafael Viñoly’s London Festival of Architecture talk last week, Roger Zogolovitch asked him whether Battersea Power Station should be knocked down for the sake of London?
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OpinionDo RIBA’s measures do enough to tackle low pay?
RIBA president Ruth Reed says the institute will define reasonable pay levels, but Keith Tomlinson argues the profession needs to fight harder for fair wages
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Opinion
Out of touch elite
Three cheers for Prince Charles! He has become the people’s champion on so many issues.
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FeaturesThomas Phillips- University of East London
The Strata project is concerned with creating new types of social interaction and blurring the boundaries between exhibition and studio.at the new Greenwich University Institute of Fine Art on Greenwich peninsula in London.
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Opinion
Lost delicacy
As much as Richard Rogers’ oeuvre is to be admired, no one seems to have discussed the design of the Chelsea Barracks scheme itself – nothwithstanding Prince Charles’s predictable but injudicious and unconstitutional opposition to it, and Quinlan Terry’s indigestible neo-gothic courtyard alternative
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ReviewThe New Décor and Ernesto Neto
The Hayward Gallery’s summer show is an uncomfortable journey into the world of interiors.
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ReviewDamascene: drawings by Michael Stiff
As part of the London Festival of Architecture, Michael Stiff of Stiff & Trevillion Architects is exhibiting his pastel and pencil drawings depicting the ancient buildings of Syria.
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NewsMitchell Taylor Workshop’s library for King’s College, Taunton
Work has begun on Mitchell Taylor Workshop’s £1.2 million library for a private school in Somerset.
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InspirationsMichál Cohen’s inspiration: Hellerup School
Michál Cohen of Walters & Cohen Architects explains why this Copenhagen school, built only eight years ago, transformed her notions of what a school could be like, and tells how she has fared trying to introduce its ideas to British clients
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OpinionDon't run scared of Prince Charles
If the RIBA and the rest had had the balls to let Rogers’ Chelsea Barracks design go to planning, and welcome HRH’s views alongside the rest of the interested parties, this whole thing could have been thrashed out in the open, and perhaps we could have had a sensible debate ...
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Building StudyWaterloo Place charette
As part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture, five practices were invited to devise ideas for Waterloo Place. Here are the results.
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FeaturesPiers Gough’s father caught knapping
BD visited an exhibition of sculptor Peter Gough’s work.
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FeaturesNominate your Carbuncle
Nominations are flooding in for the fifth Carbuncle Cup, BD’s annual award given in recognition of the most fiendishly ugly building completed in the UK in the past 12 months. Agree, disagree or send in your own nomination.
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News
Canterbury Topping out for Williams’ theatre
Keith Williams Architects’ £25.6 million redevelopment of Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre has been topped out and is on track to be completed in September.
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OpinionLet’s build more Brynmawrs
Showcase factories would act as beacons of hope in the economic downturn.
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NewsPublic backs prince in barracks row
The public has rallied to the defence of Prince Charles after he was reprimanded by a High Court judge for interfering in the Chelsea Barracks case.
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FeaturesStefan Tribelnig - Royal College of Art
Can the Monarchy use architecture, mass entertainment and the potential of space exploration to boost their decaying legacy and ensure their brand of Britishness will survive forever?
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FeaturesDot to dot results: June 25
The winner of last week’s competition was Brian Sheriff of Gilling Dod Architects in Liverpool, who identified Eero Saarinen’s Gateway Arch in St Louis
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 2 July 2010
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday July 7 for a chance to win a copy of Architecture, by Geoffrey Makstutis