All Building Design articles in 10 July 2009 – Page 4

  • Opinion

    One love

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    I’m pleased to say that Wayne Colquhoun’s view of Liverpool One (BD Bookclub, bdonline) is not shared by the majority of local, national and international visitors alike

  • Opinion

    Jan's legacy

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    To Jan Kaplicky’s retrospective at the Design Museum, where Norman Foster was the first to pay tribute to the Future Systems co-founder.

  • Opinion

    It's a frame-up...

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Is there really so little going on that you had to resort to a non-story about the LSC framework (News July 3)?

  • Technik was installed at Ropemaker Place, an office and retail development by Arup Associates in London EC2.
    Technical

    Prefabricated flooring takes off

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    With its adoption in two Heathrow terminal buildings, the Technik flooring system is getting a chance to prove itself

  • Owen Hatherley
    Opinion

    Modernism shouldn’t take rap for fire

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    It’s not the tower blocks that are to blame but, rather, our dereliction of duty towards their welfare

  • “Vulgar”: dRMM’s school.
    Opinion

    Failing time test

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    DRMM’s Clapham primary school (Works July 3) “replacing unfortunate 1960s extensions” with an even more unfortunate 2000s extension, demonstrates how many architects have dismally failed to learn the lessons of recent history

  • Technical

    Tonkin Liu creates a little piece of heaven in Marylebone

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    White interior surfaces of perforated aluminium, bleached oak panels and light linoleum flooring give this penthouse apartment an ethereal beauty

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Flacq was accidentally left out of the list of architects involved in the winning bid to regenerate Canning Town (News July 3).

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Crystal clear hypocrisy

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    While speaking sternly against fee cutting, the RIBA has picked a Stirling Prize sponsor that undercuts its own members

  • Trinity Square car park: a dismally glowering brutalist monument?
    Opinion

    Not so thrilled by car park

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    It is unfortunate that the undoubted aesthetic value of the “Get Carter” car park expounded by Owen Hatherley (Urban Trawl June 26) is not balanced by the also undoubted irrelevance to modern retail and the community who live and shop beneath its “dismally thrilling” concrete

  • The Arts Council put £30 million into Alsop’s The Public gallery.
    Opinion

    Does the organisation of the Arts Council need a rethink?

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    No says former board member Elsie Owusus, there is nothing fundamentally wrong, yes says report author Marc Sidwell, a new arts settlement is needed.

  • New hard landscaping to the south of the A206. The change of paving surface indicates the original line of the arsenal’s wall.
    Building Study

    Woolwich gets a kick up the Arsenal

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Since the closure of its munitions factories, Woolwich has become one of the most deprived parts of London. But now Witherford Watson Mann’s public realm improvements are leading a major effort to turn the area around

  • Opinion

    Recession aid

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    In response to your story on the RIBA’s services for members (News July 3) James Cooke and I provide the Managing in Recession service for RIBA

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    A 4th plinth for architecture?

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Could Trafalgar Square inspire us to experience the great buildings that never were?

  • News

    Class of 2009 nominations

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Once again, BD has asked all the UK's architecture schools to submit their top diploma student for consideration in our annual student awards. From the projects documented here, our jury will select six that will comprise our Class of 2009, to be published in the July 31 issue of ...

  • Features

    Dot to dot results: 3 July 2009

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    The winner of last week’s competition was Sarah Mitchell of Archial in Bournemouth, who identified Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower

  • News

    Boots: July 10 2009

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Boots: July 10 2009

  • News

    Letters to the Editor: July 10 2009

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Letters to the Editor: July 10 2009

  • Features

    Dot to dot: 10 July 2009

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday July 15 for a chance to win a copy of Contemporary Architecture and the Digital Design Process, by Peter Szalapaj

  • News

    RIBA database will help students find work placements

    2009-07-09T12:38:00Z

    The RIBA has launched an online database to help architecture students find practices willing to provide work placements. Called HostPractice, the scheme is intended to help students who may be struggling to find a placement during the economic downturn. It will also introduce graduates to universities that have highlighted ...