All Building Design articles in 04 July 2008 – Page 2
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BlogsNews Junkie: 05 and 06 July
Berlusconi hits out at Libeskind's work, UK nuclear renaissance threatened and brutalism and the urban crowd.
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Opinion
Shorty shrift
I just don’t get you lot. You bang on about carbon-neutral this, and carbon footprint that, but when it comes to a sexy, decadent, wilful piece of unusable space, you can’t resist.
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OpinionStirling scoops
Could David Chipperfield pull off a second Stirling win with his impeccably crafted gallery in Berlin?
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Opinion
Penalty point
As a student, I used to be admonished that a building’s purpose should be capable of interpretation from its appearance.
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Opinion
Stepping out
It’s party time in the Kazakh steppe this Sunday. Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, celebrates his 68th birthday and Astana, the capital city that he founded, turns 10.
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News
Olympic village slashed in size
The number of apartments to be built in the Olympic Village has been slashed by a quarter.
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NewsLipton and Urban Splash urge refurbishment
Local authority Tower Hamlets and regeneration agency English Partnerships have vowed to press ahead with plans to demolish Robin Hood Gardens, despite interest in refurbishing the estate from leading developers Stuart Lipton and Urban Splash.
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NewsWest London link
A group of architects led by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has joined forces to examine key redevelopment plans for Hammersmith in west London, as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
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Technical'Working with Stonehenge is like rolling a rock uphill'
As English Heritage announces new plans to appoint an architect for a temporary visitor centre at Stonehenge, Denton Corker Marshall director Stephen Quinlan recalls his firm’s part in the long-running saga
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Opinion
On the level
Your BRE story last week, illustrated with an image of Sheppard Robson’s Lighthouse, mentions that “it emerged that two of the prototype houses at the BRE’s Watford base, hailed as the future for zero-carbon development, had failed to meet the required construction standards”.
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Opinion
Mistaken identity
BD is publishing letters from readers who are unhappy at the RIBA reportedly “picking fights” with Arb and the ACA. They do not like to see their institute appear quarrelsome or aggressive.
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OpinionHuman touch can revive social housing
As Robin Hood Gardens fails to win a reprieve, we must find ways to use ageing concrete estates
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NewsHodge refusal to list snubs profession
Decision not to list estate leaves late 20th century buildings under threat
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Opinion
Happy partner
BD’s story on the BRE innovation park (News June 27) could be incorrectly read to imply that English Partnerships is a critic of BRE.
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OpinionHodge plays philistine hand
By not listing Robin Hood Gardens, Margaret Hodge has betrayed the government’s prejudice against modern buildings and its contempt for architects
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NewsPoplar towers go to planning
Multidisciplinary firm Bailey Garner has submitted a £65 million regeneration scheme for planning in London’s Tower Hamlets.
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FeaturesThe garish lipstick on the pig
An exhibition of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi’s work at the RA shows how to achieve rewarding domestic architecture without resort to lime green
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NewsProtestors set to fight on as Holland Park wins planning
Kensington & Chelsea Council has granted planning permission for Aedas’s highly controversial design for the west London borough’s Holland Park School.
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News
...as Tories pledge to scrap entire scheme
Eco-towns will be scrapped if the Tories triumph in the next election, the party said this week.
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