All Building Design articles in 11 July 2008 – Page 2

  • London Bridge at Night by Mike Humphreys
    Review

    London Bridge at Night by Mike Humphreys

    2008-07-14T13:45:00Z

    London Bridge at Night by Mike Humphreys

  • Mairi Johnson
    News

    Partnerships for Schools appoints new design director

    2008-07-14T12:49:00Z

    Partnerships for Schools, the delivery body for the government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme, has appointed Mairi Johnson as its director of design.

  • Review

    Harold Cohen : Colour Rules - until August 15

    2008-07-14T12:48:00Z

    ‘Art is one of the ways the individual has of bringing beliefs under scrutiny and under the authority of his or her intelligence’.Harold Cohen, ‘Off the Shelf’, 1986

  • Review

    Unfinished Business: A fellowship project by Mark Wilsher - until October 26

    2008-07-14T12:19:00Z

    Unfinished Business, the culmination of a fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute,* sees artist, writer and curator Mark Wilsher experimenting with images and texts relating to abstract sculpture of the 1960s and 70s.

  • Review

    Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling - until October 20

    2008-07-14T11:56:00Z

    Prefabs past, present and future are the subject of the exhibition Home Delivery Fabricating the Modern Dwelling at New York¹s Museum of Modern Art.

  • A computer model of the Eden project
    Review

    Exhibition celebrates triumphs of structural engineering

    2008-07-14T11:48:00Z

    David Littlefield, curator of "Unseen Hands: 100 years of structural engineering " on why structural engineers' work should be celebrated.

  • Blogs

    News Junkie: 12 and 13 July

    2008-07-14T10:54:00Z

    Iconic architecture in Beijing, nuclear power in the UK, Britain's oldest trees

  • Jerry Tate Architects' Dubai Waterfront Hotel
    Review

    Young architects' sustainability ideas on show

    2008-07-14T09:05:00Z

    Young architects will be showcasing their take on sustainability in practise at a London Festival of Architecture event on Wednesday.

  • Diespeker Wharf where the climbing event will take place.
    News

    Fancy a spot of ‘buildering’?

    2008-07-13T09:00:00Z

    You may have heard of “bouldering” – but “buildering”? That's what's on offer on Sunday July 20 on London’s Regent’s Canal at Diespeker Wharf in Islington.

  • Opinion

    In the swing

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Your report (News July 4) on the RIBA Trust/Intelligence2 Debate event which proposed “modern architecture is still all glass stumps are carbuncles” did not record the real point in the voting.

  • Opinion

    Tell your story

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Since St Christopher’s Hospice opened in Sydenham in 1967, more than 250 others have been established. Some claim the modern hospice is a new building type.

  • Opinion

    Out of touch

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    RIBA president Sunand Prasad and the architectural elite, including BD, have again shown themselves to be out of touch with a significant proportion of the RIBA and Arb membership, as well as an overwhelming majority of the British public, in their continuing campaign to have Robin Hood Gardens listed (News ...

  • Features

    Powell & Moya put spirit in the Skylon

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    As Jack Pringle campaigns to get Skylon rebuilt, BD captures Skylon’s original architect, Powell & Moya, in a moment of triumph

  • Opinion

    Slow motion

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    The failure of International Union of Architects’ (UIA) representatives to propose a motion to censure Israel for breaches of its professional and ethical charter, and the country’s well documented flouting of international law is like Africa’s reluctance to criticise Mugabe.

  • Opinion

    Parker Morris needs updating

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Three cheers for “Boris pledges to reinstate Parker Morris standards” (News June 27).

  • Red oak flooring
    Technical

    Rich man poor man

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    This week: Wood flooring

  • Opinion

    Jilted John

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    To Northumbria, where the National Trust is campaigning to restore Seaton Delaval Hall.

  • Opinion

    Howe’s that?

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Boots may in the past have suggested that Sunand Prasad was less than forthright in his views, but never underestimate the quiet man of Portland Place.

  • News

    Housebuilders rush to slash jobs

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder Persimmon said this week it had cut up to 2,000 jobs since the start of the year, as sales fell 31%.

  • Euro first: Isamu Noguchi’s Thunder Rock, 1981.
    Review

    Hot tips

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

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