All Building Design articles in 09 March 2007 – Page 2
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NewsFuture System's winning Prague library: Full set of images
Last week Future Systems won the competition to design a £48 million extension to the National Library in Prague. View a full set of computer generated images and drawings of the winning schemeMasterplanSectionSectionEast elevationSouth elevationAxonometricExploded viewBook distribution
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NewsNews Junkie: 10 and 11 March
Prince Charles in a pub, seaside towns in decline and a demolition broadcast live on the web in Ian Martin's latest round-up of the weekend papers
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Features
High spirits despite the hailstorms
Day One 9th March: After the early start the baton passed from team to team as the C2C whirred along minor roads, passing the war graves and heavy ploughed fields of the Somme. The sheer organisational achievement of Peter Murray and Claire Norton became apparent as support vehicles, riders, ...
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Review
Domesticity at War by Beatriz Colomina
Domesticity at War Beatriz ColominaThe MIT Press (Actar, Barcelona) 280ppWhen American architects, designers and cultural institutions converted wartime strategies to new ends, the aggressive promotion of postwar domestic bliss became another kind of weapon.
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ReviewPublic Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts by Giuliana Bruno
Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts Giuliana BrunoThe MIT Press £13.95 280pp PB An examination of architecture and art as a screen of vital cultural memory that considers museum culture, visual technology, and the border of public and private space.
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ReviewClassical Swedish Architecture & Swedish Architecture & Interiors 1650 – 1840 by Johan Cederlund
Classical Swedish Architecture & Swedish Architecture & Interiors 1650 – 1840 by Johan CederlundW.W. Norton & Company Ltd £36 256pp HBThis book focuses on Sweden’s leading architects of the classical era, namely Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and Carl Harlemand. Translated by Lani Summerville-Sternerup
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ReviewEnglish Shops and Shopping: An Architectural History by Kathryn A. Morrison
English Shops and Shopping: An Architectural HistoryKathryn A. MorrisonYale University Press. £18.99 352pp PBPaperback edition. England’s retail buildings since the Middle Ages to the present.
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ReviewRussian Architecture and the West by Dimitry Shvidkovsky
Russian Architecture and the West Dimitry ShvidkovskyYale University Press £50.00 480pp HBShows the development of Russian architecture over the past thousand years as a part of the history of Western architecture
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Review
The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance by Christoph Luitpold Frommel
The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance Christoph Luitpold FrommelThames & Hudson £38224pp HBA focus on the buildings of the period between 1418 and 1580 and the 35 key architects who designed them.
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ReviewTraditional Farm Buildings and their Conservation by R.W. Brunskill
Traditional Farm Buildings and their ConservationR.W. BrunskillYale University Press £19.99 208pp PBA record of the origins and uses of traditional building types and a exploration of the conflicting demands of conservation and re-use.
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OpinionSir David King, the optimist
Phil Clark, our new green blogger, finds a talk by the government's chief scientific advisor is heavy going
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ReviewCradle to Cradle
It may be five years old, but William McDonough and Michael Braungart's environmental handbook is more relevant than ever, says our new blogger Phil Clark
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MultimediaThe Podcast: Luigi Colani in conversation
An exhibition of the work of German-born designer Luigi Colani has opened at the Design Museum. Hear Luigi Colani talk about sex, men's hands and Zaha Hadid.
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MultimediaVideo flythrough: Rafael Vinoly's "walkie-talkie"
The inquiry into Rafael Vinoly’s “walkie-talkie” skyscraper planned for Fenchurch Street in the City of London opened on Tuesday 6 March. Watch the architect’s flythrough of the proposed building.
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News
ODA issues media centre notice
The ODA has called for proposals for the legacy use of the Olympic Park’s media centre, one of the landmark built projects of London 2012.
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News
Foster hospital wins planning
Foster & Partners’ first-ever hospital, an innovative facility near Bath intended to maximise the role of design in the healing process, has been granted outline planning approval.
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Building StudySoul searching
Christhope Grafe finds the perfect internal peace of Sanaa’s arts centre in Almere outside Amsterdam leaves the building somehow lifeless.
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OpinionStand by my man
I was appalled at the sensationalist and personal stance of your article on SMC and Stewart McColl in particular (News Analysis February 23).