All Building Design articles in 03 April 2009 – Page 2
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News
British firms battle it out in Botswana
Foster & Partners and Studio Egret West are among eight shortlisted practices for the Botswana Innovation Hub, on the outskirts of Botswana’s capital, Gaborone
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NewsBirmingham basks in building boom
£20bn of public-led projects are enabling the city to buck the recession
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NewsTower approvals rile Westminster Council
Westminster City Council has blasted communities secretary Hazel Blears’ decision to approve towers by Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre on London’s South Bank as an “act of architectural vandalism”
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News25 years on, prince and RIBA kiss and make up
Invitation to speak a “historic moment” — but don’t expect a love-in, warns RIBA president
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NewsHolmes's Queen Street approved
Scottish practice Holmes has won planning consent for a £40 million mixed-use project on Queen Street in central Glasgow
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Building StudyNottingham: A notty problem
Nottingham hopes to be ‘2012 world design capital’ but the varying quality of its newer buildings exemplifies the problems of what to do with a post-industrial city
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OpinionMake more of the year out
The latest call from the Association of Consultant Architects to “relax work experience rules” (News March 20) came as no surprise. As a part I student myself, I strongly feel that what needs to be altered is not the necessity of a year out, which to my mind is indubitably ...
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Opinion
Ode to joy
Thank you, Jonathan Glancey, for bringing up a worthwhile but neglected issue (Whatever happened to craft? March 27)
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Opinion
Suburb hubbub
I am an architect, and a resident of Hampstead Garden Suburb. Boots (March 27) might like to know that there was a presentation by Hopkins on March 24, some nine months too late, without a single three-dimensional drawing to show the new blocks from Central Square or the flanking roads ...
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OpinionThe shining: a modern horror story
The new wave of energy-efficient lightbulbs is enough to bring out the axeman in anyone
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Opinion
RIBA: get real
I have followed your raging debate about Arb and the RIBA. I even wrote to the minister two years ago, imploring her to resist the RIBA’s efforts to take over Arb’s functions, and I made sure that I didn’t vote for a Reform Group candidate
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Opinion
Fount of wisdom
Last Sunday, I cycled past Centre Point and was saddened to see the pool and fountains dry and hoarded-off, ready for demolition
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FeaturesJumpin' Jack Flash on life in the fast lane
Here’s future RIBA Jack Pringle and his very nice motor in 1987. Doesn’t he look as if he’s auditioning for a part in The Sweeney?
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Opinion
Correction
In last week’s front page story (“Lifeline for arts projects”) Haworth Tompkins and director Steve Tompkins were incorrectly spelt as Tomkins
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Opinion
Computer craft
Like it or not, computers are here to stay (Whatever happened to craft? March 27), so the issue is how computing-based design can achieve a more sensual quality rather than a default abandonment of how architecture has been practiced for the past two decades or so.
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OpinionSeventies wallpaper makes a comeback in Birmingham
Why bother hiring a world-class architect to design your new library when you can simply cover a few very large boxes with a classic wallpaper design from the seventies?
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InspirationsJamie Fobert visits Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Roman Baths at Potsdam, Germany
Jamie Fobert tells how he came upon Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Roman baths almost by accident, yet the design has stayed in his head
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OpinionPrince is back for seconds
Sustainability is likely to be the target of Prince Charles’s RIBA speech next month, but architects can’t expect an easy ride
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