All Building Design articles in 11 July 2008 – Page 3
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News
Wimbledon’s luxury housing hopes for game, set and match
This year’s Wimbledon tennis championships may be over but star players in future years might be interested in these proposals for a luxury housing scheme overlooking the All England Tennis Club.
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OpinionFrank speaking
Boots hears that, freshly flown in from sunny California, Frank Gehry was in no mood to make life easy at the press unveiling of his Serpentine pavilion.
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NewsRow erupts over 'secret' plan for East End towers
Critics round on ‘astonishing secrecy’ over proposed cluster of skyscrapers in Shoreditch
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Opinion
Poor defence
BD’s increasingly frantic campaign to halt the demolition of Robin Hood Gardens does a disservice to the reputation of architects in the eyes of the public, which sees it as the archetypal 1960s ugly concrete monstrosity.
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OpinionDeath toll
The London Architecture Festival’s Greening Bays competition last week, organised by Ramboll Whitbybird, showcased 14 “intervention” designs for a parking space to provoke discussion on the space given up to motors in our cities.
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NewsCZWG goes for gold
CZWG Architects has revealed its reworked design for a £150 million housing scheme on the banks of the River Thames opposite the O2 arena.
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Opinion
Social contract
In a 1974 article in Architectural Design entitled The violent consumer, Alison Smithson queried the wisdom of basing socialist ideals on the values of the English middle class. Do we have a choice?
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Opinion
Chips is off
A new café developed by Jane Wood and Sophie Murray, respectively wife and daughter of LFA director Peter, opens in Littlehampton this month to much anticipation.
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NewsCastleford regeneration scheme curves to a close
The long awaited completion of the Castleford regeneration project was marked by the opening of McDowell & Benedetti’s curving pedestrian bridge last week.
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NewsDirector buys out William Cowie
Aberdeen-based William Cowie Partnership has been bought out by director Dougal Morgan.
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TechnicalTimber-concrete composite floor construction builds on shared strengths
Cathy Strongman checks out a composite flooring system that lets large open-plan buildings benefit from the qualities of timber frame
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OpinionIs BSF transforming the standard of school design?
Yes, if education authorities have vision, says Robert Firth; not while delivery is through the private sector, counters Dominic Cullinan
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NewsEH forces rethink of British Museum plans
Rogers Stirk Harbour challenged over plan to demolish listed buildings
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OpinionTowers set the test for Boris
Mayor Johnson’s reaction to the proposed high-rise cluster of towers in Shoreditch will give an early indication of his real vision for London
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NewsNational Trust bids to restore Vanbrugh masterwork
A grade I listed Northumbrian house widely seen as the finest work of English baroque is set to be restored and converted for public use under a radical plan by the National Trust.
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ReviewBest in show
BD concludes the round-up of student work from the architecture schools’ end-of-year exhibitions. Ed Frith, Gerrard O’Carroll, James Payne and Peter Wilson report
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NewsBerlin modernist housing chosen
Unesco’s world heritage committee has named six modernist housing estates in Berlin as a world heritage site.
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News
Benoy to fund wildlife officer
The Benoy Foundation is to fund a conservation officer for 20 months to help with work on the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust’s Living Landscape project on the Trent flood plain between North Muskham and Dunham Bridge.
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NewsCity’s bandstand will now play on
DRP Architects has been granted planning for a £850,000 scheme to restore Brighton’s historic seafront bandstand.
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