All Building Design articles in 12 June 2009 – Page 3
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NewsShortlist for PM’s awards revealed
Buildings by Ian Ritchie, Make, Wilkinson Eyre, BDP and Nicholas Hare have made the shortlist for the Prime Minster’s Better Public Building Award, alongside a ring road project, a railway extension and a canal link
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NewsPeer makes dig at superstar names
Labour peer William Howie has claimed that architects such as Richard Rogers and Norman Foster are unfairly taking credit for high-profile projects such as the Millennium Dome and the Great Court at the British Museum
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Opinion
Trust is robust
I would like to make it clear that your leader on the unfortunate collapse of the Civic Trust (May 29) was referring to the “Southern English” Civic Trust
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TechnicalPreston’s golden porcupine
Moxon Architects uses aluminium fins to create the spiky cladding for Oliver’s Place office building in Preston
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OpinionMace gets Oxford educated
Oxford University’s choice of architects for its new campus is the responsibility of its estates department, led by two ex Mace employees Jennifer Woods, director of estates, and Mike Wigg, her deputy
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Building StudyScabal’s sports hall for Dunraven secondary school in Streatham, London
Could recycled shipping containers be the future of low-cost, fast-build structures? Scabal’s sports hall for Dunraven secondary school in Streatham, south London, is proving a success
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Opinion
Cul-de-sac cure
In her thought-stimulating article, Carolyn Steel (Opinion June 5) does not mention the basic general objection to massive development in the Thames Gateway
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ReviewSuper Contemporary seems stuck in the past
The Design Museum’s Super Contemporary exhibition offers 15 new design ideas for London, but lacks coherency
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OpinionStriking out from the centre
There is nothing particularly strange about British voters supporting fascists. Many, right across the class spectrum, supported Hitler in the 1930s. “Hoorah for the Blackshirts!” squealed the Daily Mail on January 15, 1934.
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TechnicalRenzo Piano brings bright cladding to the big city
Colourful extruded ceramic and glazed facades at Central St Giles are guaranteed to illuminate this new development near Centre Point
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OpinionBeware theme park pastiche
Oxford University has a great opportunity to make a significant addition to contemporary architectural culture (News June 5)
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OpinionBaffled by Bury
Emily Greeves’ review of Studio MGM’s housing scheme in Bury St Edmunds (Works May 29) says the “module of the frame describes the measure of the rooms inside” but it clearly does not if the floor plan is correct
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Opinion
Bad rap for Wrap
I was surprised to read your article about Wrap (News June 5) which said that no architects had yet signed up to its call to reduce waste levels at design stage
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OpinionMemorials still dying an awful death
Remembering the dead has always led to crimes against design
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OpinionIs this the worst year to be an architecture graduate?
No, says Peter Murray, previous recessions have proved highly creative for architecture – a view which Jeremy Till considers elitist and not taking into account the far higher levels of student debt
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FeaturesIssey aims for history
Issey Miyake is architects’ favourite fashion designer so naturally BD reviewed his first London show at the Boilerhouse in 1985, which it described as “theatrical, extravagant and glossy”
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OpinionBanana just adds to the rot
Problems with Viñoly’s Colchester arts building could deepen public disillusionment with ‘exciting’ architecture
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