All Building Design articles in 08 June 2007 – Page 2
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TechnicalIn detail: Bath Spa, Bath
Architect: Grimshaw ArchitectsStone supply & installation: Bath Stone GroupIn the centre of Bath a new spa building contains two bathing pools fed with water from natural hot springs. A rooftop pool sits on top of a Bath stone cube containing treatment facilities, held up on four mushroom columns emerging from ...
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TechnicalIn detail: Vernon Street Offices, Kensington, west London
Architect: Terry Pawson ArchitectsCast stone subcontractor: Histon Concrete ProductsCrisply detailed cast stone gives this new office building a strong material presence and relates it to the Portland stone features of the Edwardian Magistrates Court next door.A basement next to the street is formed with reinforced concrete walls, insulated and tanked ...
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TechnicalIn detail: Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, east London
Architect: Penoyre & Prasad Specialist subcontractor: Taurus LittrowA moving screen of louvres adds a dynamic new facade to an arts centre in a converted 1960s garment factory. Groups of 12 louvres can be remotely angled from inside each room so the changing external pattern is derived directly by the users.Recording ...
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TechnicalIn detail: Woodward Place housing, New Islington, Manchester
Architect: FatStructural engineer: Whitby BirdFor this development of 23 social housing units Fat has worked closely with the residents to make a strong urban street frontage using conventional construction techniques and incorporating symbolic references to the idea of home.New Islington is an ex-industrial area so the canals and land have ...
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NewsShuttleworth to head Architects' Benevolent Society
New president's appointment announced in wake of last week's successful fundraiser at RA
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TechnicalIn detail: Dance City, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Architect: Malcolm Fraser ArchitectsThe constructional and organisational diagrams for the building are closely related. All dance-related activity is contained within load bearing brick boxes, and all support activity is located in a steel-framed section of the building.Brick offered the appropriate performance characteristics needed for dance, as well as being cost ...
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NewsNews Junkie: 9 and 10 June
In this week's patchwork quilt of contemporary Britain: BAA's portfolio of thatched cottages, concerns over our 'cyber carbon footprint', flash mobbers in a silent disco at the Royal Festival Hall and Stephen Bayley, 'weathering nicely in the spume...'
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News
Massive interest in Olympic Village competition revealed
More than 500 architectural practices have registered for the chance to design elements of the £2 billion 2012 Olympic village, the Lend Lease consortium has revealed.The international search for around 40 firms, first made public in BD (News March 23), has attracted talent from countries including Algeria, Georgia, Germany and ...
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NewsReid to merge with 3D
Reid Architecture and 3D Architects have announced that they are to merge, securing a place in the UK’s top ten practices.The new practice, 3DReid, will have a turnover of more than £20 million and a 320-strong workforce including more than 150 architects, with offices in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow, London ...
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Features
Playlist: Music to walk around a city
In the first of our new series of playlists, Amanda Baillieu gives her pick of tunes to listen to on a city walking tour
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FeaturesNathan Mooncie's Smoking Pod
Smoking Pod by Nathan Mooncie of Red Brick Architectural Design looks like a collection of architecturally scaled cigarette butts. The pod is hollowed out like a chimney, with a view of the blue above through the stainless-steel membrane of a floating balcony, and completed with an undulating smooth internal skin ...
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AnalysisWas SMC's bubble bound to burst?
To join the debate add your comments in the box below.To read Will Hurst’s analysis of the story behind Stewart McColl’s departure from SMC, click here
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News‘Wonder’ vote on Stonehenge
English Heritage is urging people to nominate Stonehenge as one of the new seven wonders of the world.
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Opinion
Still waiting
The tricky task of designing bus shelters has dogged Transport for London lately, with aesthetic concerns prompting a review of a scheme for 11,800 new shelters.
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Opinion
Urban smash
Landmark buildings in London are tumbling down as fire and floods ravage the City.
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FeaturesThe science of socialising
With the party season in full swing, it’s time to hone your networking skills.
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Opinion
Making a stand
The question of whether or not architects, as a profession, should engage in politics (Debate June 1) is determined by what you accept to be the role of a professional.
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News
Mayor’s powers ‘threaten London’
Extending the London mayor’s powers will “threaten the fabric of the capital” and lead to inappropriate skyscrapers and a planning system mired in red tape, Westminster council leader Simon Milton has warned.