All Building Design articles in 06 March 2009 – Page 3
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Opinion
Self-defence
Arb and the RIBA should lobby for legislation that would require an architect to validate and endorse every planning application before it is submitted to the local authority. This would be in line with other EU countries.
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Opinion
Protection, please
Small and medium-sized local practices are inevitably in competition with unqualified and often uninsured “architectural consultants” because of the size and nature of much of their work.
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Opinion
What’s in a name
Amanda Baillieu is absolutely right, the title “architect” can never be protected, nor should it be.
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OpinionStandards, not title, matter
The debate over protection of title (Debate February 27) re-ignites every time the industry goes into recession and we architects start to feel the pinch of competition from each other and those we like to call “unqualified”.
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Opinion
Hidden powers
Three architectural practices are in both the “good” and “not yet good enough” columns of Cabe’s school league table.
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OpinionHair today...
I was startled to see my photograph in your Archive last week, sitting with Robin Spence and Richard Holden, dated 1982.
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Opinion
Royal dissent
Although, thank goodness, not a disaster of the magnitude of the Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, illustrations of the opening ceremony of the Queen Mother memorial leave me disappointed.
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FeaturesEdgar Gonzalez visits Niemeyer’s French Communist Party HQ
In our series in which architects talk about the building that has inspired them most, Edgar Gonzalez revisits Oscar Niemeyer’s Communist Party HQ building in Paris.
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Opinion
BSF is working
Your report “Cabe says half school designs aren’t good enough” (February 20) claimed MPs are concerned that plans for a new minimum design standard to ensure only the best designs get off the drawing board and into construction will slow delivery of this unprecedented programme.
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OpinionBarbican puts the boot in
The Corb show at the Barbican cruelly offers visitors a film about the demolition of nearby Milton Court, Chamberlin, Powell & Bon’s paean the master
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OpinionAustralians courting the line of fire
The outback’s deadly fires are claiming more lives as Aussies build deeper into the bush
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MultimediaDan Cruickshank attacks English Heritage over Robin Hood Gardens (video)
Architectural historian and TV personality Dan Cruickshank has given the east London council and heritage body a drubbing over the Smithson’s estate
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FeaturesArcuk gets on top of its paperwork
The precedessor to Arb, the Architects’ Registration Council UK, wasn’t exactly a barrel of laughs either as this 1984 snap of registrar Ken Forder (left) and finance chair Max Hutchinson shows
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OpinionArchitecture’s fleurs du mal
City skylines the world over have been assaulted by the brash productions of neoliberalism for 25 years — it’s time we substituted these flowers of evil for a more sustainable and cultivated architecture
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ReviewGhostly architecture
How the BBC television drama series Being Human made a star of a terraced house in Bristol
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OpinionCan modern architecture be truly sustainable?
Yes, says Hopkins’ MD Bill Taylor, we have no choice but to build sustainably; no, says the Victorian Society director Ian Dungavell, modern architects prefer gadgetry to thermal mass
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ReviewTilling infertile architectural ground
There’s a whiff of hypocrisy in Jeremy Till’s call in his latest book for architects to re-engage with the everyday
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Building StudyDavid Chipperfield Architects' Neues Museum, Berlin
David Chipperfield Architects has undertaken a stunningly courageous transformation of Berlin’s ruined Neues Museum
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Multimedia
Alison Brooks' Quarterhouse in Folkestone (video)
Take a video tour around Alison Brooks Architects’ new Folkestone performing arts venue and studio place.
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Building StudyMilton Keynes: End of the space age
It’s the empty streets and lack of crowds that make Milton Keynes feel civilised — but attempts to bring density to the new town could spell the end for this unique quality
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