All Building Design articles in 12 December 2008
12 December 2008-
News
Fears over Arts Council policy shift
Architecture centres fear that events focusing on building design will be marginalised in favour of art projects after Arts Council England officially scrapped Architecture Week.
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Features
Dot to Dot: 12 December 2008
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday December 17 for a chance to win a copy of Herzog & de Meuron Complete Works Vol 4, 1997-2001, by Gerhard Mack.
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News
Power says refurb cuts more CO2
Refurbishing old houses rather than building new eco-homes is a better way to reduce carbon emissions in the built environment, Anne Power, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics, has claimed
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News
£4.5m centre for creative industry
Cartwright Pickard Architects has designed a £4.5 million building for London’s East End which will house Metropolitan Works, a creative industries centre.
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OpinionDot to dot results: December 5
Last week’s competition winner was Dorota Kruk of Tempietto Architects, Hertfordshire, who identified Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral by Frederick Gibberd, aka Paddy’s Wigwam
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NewsHolder Mathias’ £80m Neath plan
Holder Mathias Architects has unveiled designs for an £80 million, mixed-use regeneration of Neath, near Swansea
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ReviewBernard Tschumi’s New Acropolis Museum
Bernard Tschumi presented his New Acropolis Museum at the RIBA last week, and took Greece’s bid to win back the Elgin Marbles to the next level.
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OpinionDesign advice is key to planning
Jonathan Glancey’s suggestion (November 28) about setting up design training oriented towards planning would be beneficial in the long term
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Building StudyDow Jones Architects’ cultivated aesthetic
The temporary exhibition gallery at the Garden Museum on the Thames at Lambeth is a triumph of architectural imagination over budgetary constraint.
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FeaturesNo more starry-eyed air travel
With Stansted brought to a standstill by climate change protestors, we have to admit that the great age of aviation architecture is over
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FeaturesAll the fun of the peer
Brighton’s West Pier is getting a makeover courtesy of Marks Barfield Architects. BD looks back to its 1967 heyday
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Opinion
Design for all
As an aged architect-planner, I was heartened to hear your call for the borough architect to be brought back.
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NewsAlsop keeps identity as SMC becomes Archial Group
Architectural giant SMC is changing its name to Archial Group in a major restructuring which will see Will Alsop’s subsidiary operate as a separate brand
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NewsMPs angry over fee bill for Stonehenge
MPs have told English Heritage to “get a grip” after it emerged that EH has spent £1.8 million on consultancy fees relating to Stonehenge in the last five years, with nothing to show for it.
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OpinionShould a Muslim architect masterplan Mecca?
Yes, says Mangera Yvars’ Ali Mangera, the practical requirement for entry to the city is being a Muslim; no, says RMJM Hillier’s Gordon Hood, it’s not an issue as design skill is a universal language
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NewsClash completes Derby arts hub
The Level Centre (pictured), an arts building for people with learning difficulties, by Clash Architects, has opened in Rowsley, Derbyshire
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Opinion
Back to panels
You suggest that “a huge cheer greeted the latest review of the planning system” (Leader November 28). I am not sure who from!
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OpinionBad time for a nationalist split
The Scots’ desire to break away from centres of power in England could unleash multiple problems at a sensitive time
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News
FCB’s Barnstaple college designs
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ designs for a £125 million “cathedral of learning” for North Devon College, have been submitted for planning
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ReviewWright and beautiful
A new book on the non-residential work of Frank Lloyd Wright is a keeper, says George Ferguson