All Building Design articles in 07 October 2011 – Page 3
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NewsIn pictures: The YAYA Shortlisting party
Judges, sponsors and young practices were out in force last night for the announcement of the YAYA shortlisting party at the Architecture Foundation
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OpinionMissing the point of parks
Giles Dolphin, assistant director of planning for the Greater London Authority, writing in defence of One Hyde Park (Letters September 16) stated that the building: “if visible above the trees would have improved views from Hyde Park on account of its architectural excellence”.
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OpinionRykwert needs no more gilding
Joseph Rykwert’s Chelsea housing is well saved, but using it to prove that he can design as well as think (“Top names back Rykwert for medal”, News September 23) does not enhance his claim for the RIBA Gold Medal.
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OpinionStirling decision stuck in the past
How disappointing it was to see Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy win this year’s Stirling Prize.
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OpinionRed or dead
Ivor Smith, Park Hill’s original architect and a guest of Urban Splash on Saturday evening, was reminiscing over the days when he used to go drinking with Berthold Lubetkin, in whose memory RIBA awards its annual international prize.
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OpinionFor your consideration
It was surely no coincidence that Hopkins Architects chose the week before the Stirling Prize to lumber readers of the AJ with a 104-page supplement on its Olympic Velodrome.
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OpinionIt's time to stop sizing up the competition
I joined my first firm in 1969 when it had five people.
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OpinionPrize Charlie
A last minute replacement was needed on the Stirling Prize judging panel for Lene Tranberg, architect at Lundgaard & Tranberg after one of the practice’s projects made the RIBA awards midlist, creating a potential conflict of interest.
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OpinionCanning it
In austerity Britain, RIBA planned this year’s Stirling prize jamboree rather well.
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Opinion
The birth of the Memphis Group?
May I claim, a little shamefacedly — like Spike Milligan on his part in Hitler’s downfall — my place at the origins of postmodernism?
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MultimediaVideo: Rem Koolhaas on the OMA/Progress Exhibition at the Barbican
OMA founder Rem Koolhaas and exhibition curator and Rotor member Maarten Gielen discuss the major OMA retrospective which launches this week
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NewsWork starts on Terry Farrell's TV-am remodel
Jacobs Webber design includes “spectrum of colour fins”
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron to design new school for Oxford university
Blavatnik School of Government will open in 2015
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ReviewOMA show compels, but where do they get their ideas from?
At this week’s press opening for Progress, the largest UK exhibition to date of OMA’s work, Rem Koolhaas recalled his first reaction to the Barbican Gallery’s proposal to mount a retrospective: “The word retrospective made me very nervous.”
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NewsRMJM keeps Gazprom tower job
RMJM has been told by energy giant Gazprom that it will continue to be involved in the controversial Okhta tower project near St Petersburg in Russia. The practice’s future association with the tower was thrown into doubt earlier this year when Gazprom confirmed it was talking to several different firms ...
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InspirationsHans van der Heijden's inspiration: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
The co-founder of BIQ on how his relationship with Rotterdam’s Boijmans museum has shadowed his own evolution as an architect
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ReviewSlogans & battlecries: 'A plane of tarmac with hot spots of urban intensity'
Architectural aphorisms explored
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FeaturesLife class: Owen Luder
The two-time RIBA president reflects on the goals he has achieved and the ambitions he would have liked to have fulfilled
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NewsBob Allies to lead East of England design review
Frank Duffy, David Thompson and Nicolas Ray also appointed to review panel