All Building Design articles in 05 February 2010 – Page 3

  • News

    Jobs agency collapses despite fragile recovery

    2010-02-05T00:03:00Z

    Adrem enters administration as RIBA figures claim 15% unemployment

  • Opinion

    Silent witness

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Alexander George, aka Richard George, was strangely uncommunicative when Boots called to ask him about his attack on Grimshaw’s offices last month

  • Opinion

    Sitting pretty

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Just in case anyone is struggling to make sense of my image (Zumtobel photo competition January 29), as I was, if page 21 is turned through 90 degrees...

  • Opinion

    Post-war journey

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Glancey’s comment “it would be fascinating to know just how many architects have made their way up from two-up, two- down terraces, council estates, overspill towns and secondary modern schools” (January 22) caused me to reflect on my own experience and those of many of my friends and colleagues

  • Opinion

    Own goal?

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    I noted with amusement your item “Make hits carbon goal with footballer’s house” (News January 29)

  • Opinion

    Equitable society

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Glancey asks to hear from architects who made it from the bottom rung. Before the war my father was a milkman. After it he was a bus conductor. We lived in Tottenham

  • Opinion

    Drinking in the Swedish experience

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Sweden shows that if we want better public buildings, we need to address our society first

  • The nursery playground features fruit trees and scented herbs.
    Building Study

    Cottrell & Vermeulen’s Krishna-Avanti School in Harrow

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    The brief for Britain’s first state-funded Hindu school combined adhering to the traditional Vastu Shastra science of construction while creating an essentially modern building

  • News

    Come Clean on Kickstart

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

  • Features

    Two suns shine on Soleri’s desert city

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Some 3,000 people were living and working in the Arcosanti project in Arizona

  • Nairn tells you why a building is important in human terms.
    Review

    Chronicles of Nairnia

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Meades entertaining talk on Ian Nairn failed to do justice to the legendary architecture critic

  • Opinion

    London calling

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Paul Nicholson (Letters January 22) levels criticism at the entrant criteria of our competition Forgotten Spaces with Design for London and Qatari Diar

  • Opinion

    Bury a car park, not the V&A

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    A museum extension should raise our sights and spirits, not be hidden underground

  • Koolhaas Houselife looks at the people responsible for maintaining OMA’s Bordeaux House.
    Review

    Films reveal secret lives of buildings

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoîne’s films show how buildings negotiate the difficult years following their completion

  • The Prince’s Foundation’s Natural House uses traditional materials.
    Opinion

    Have we become too fixated on modern materials?

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Yes, they are more of a threat than a promise to the green agenda, argues Howard Lidell, while Arup’s Adrian Campbell says widespread favouring of traditional materials is simplistic

  • Clare Wright in the library.
    Inspirations

    Clare Wright looks at her changing relationship with the Glasgow School of Art building

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    The Wright & Wright partner explains how Mackintosh’s building has influenced her as a child, a student and an architect

  • Opinion

    Up and around

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    At the age of 12, I first became aware of buildings. I took to looking at their outward appearance, wondered how they came to be built and how they were used

  • Opinion

    Correction: January 29 2010

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    The practice set up by former directors of John Clark Associates — which designed Huddersfield’s HD One scheme (News January 29) — is WBG Design, not WCB Design as reported.

  • Features

    Dot to dot results: January 29 2010

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s winner was Rachel Stevens of Capita Symonds in Cardiff, who identified the Eames House in California by Charles and Ray Eames

  • Features

    Dot to Dot: 5 February 2010

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday February 10 for a chance to win a copy of Animals in Store: Architectural Sculpture in New York City, by Robert Arthur King