All Building Design articles in 12 March 2010 – Page 3

  • Opinion

    Out of the picture

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    As an archivist I find you bring a very salutary element of architectural reality into a very large architectural archive where “modern” mainly refers to the 1930s-1960s

  • Opinion

    Object lessons

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Re “Cabe told assessors to destroy scores” (News February 26), I have experienced a similar practice of being required to return sheets with scores and notes at meetings called to consider submissions for public art projects

  • New and old: The 1968 extension contrasts sharply with the original Victorian theatre. Beyond is St John's Beacon, built the following year.
    Inspirations

    James Soane’s inspiration: Liverpool Playhouse extension

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    The glamour and confidence of a sixties extension to a 19th century theatre had an early influence on James Soane of Project Orange

  • Sanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre.
    Opinion

    No entrance?

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    With reference to your article on Sanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne (Works March 5), the bottom left photograph on page 28 is subtitled “A freestanding canopy marks the entrance at the centre of the plan”

  • Opinion

    Let’s draw a veil over this idea

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Much like Jonathan Glancey (March 5) I was shocked when made aware of the proposals to partly transform the RIBA into a “wedding venue” (News February 26)

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    The profession has divided us

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    There are still places where architecture is a communal experience

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Alan Short (“Glass buildings are set to become pariahs” News March 5) is professor of architecture at Cambridge University, not head of architecture as stated.

  • Paterson’s paintings on Perspex are displayed on large floating timber frames.
    Review

    Toby Paterson exhibition: Consensus and Collapse

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Glaswegian artist Toby Paterson’s fascination with desolate fragments of cities helps us to re-examine architecture’s visual and social role

  • Opinion

    Classic error

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    In case BD readers think I have gone mad, I most certainly did not write “Paternoster Square never goes away, it has the longest pedigree of all the styles” in your 40th anniversary celebration

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Filling the gaps in our cities

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    All around the country sites are standing empty. Now it’s time for developers to step up and find alternative uses for their land

  • Features

    Bruce Graham's towering reputation

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    SOM’s Bruce Graham showed his RIBA audience Chicago from the skies

  • Opinion

    No to Battersea

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Your story “Cabe backing fuels Viñoly Battersea application” (News March 26) quotes Cabe director of design Diane Haigh saying: “we have reviewed [the proposals] six times… this has resulted in a strong scheme which Cabe is confident will be a success”!

  • RALA Architect’s winning scheme for the Europan Dublin site.
    Opinion

    Can the Europan architecture competition work in the UK?

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Yes, it is one of the only opportunities for young architects, says Dominic Papa, while Hans van der Heijden thinks it needs Cabe’s backing

  • The nursery spaces open out towards a number of landscape features.
    Building Study

    Patel Taylor Architects’ Lowther School Children’s Centre

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Patel Taylor’s Children’s Centre in Barnes, south-west London, is the first stage of a project that aims to boost the whole of the local community

  • Just talk it through.
    Opinion

    Just can’t stop — Pringles and the aquatics centre

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Word reaches Boots that people living near the Olympic Park are divided over the nickname for Zaha Hadid’s aquatics centre

  • Sky-Frame doors to terrace.
    Technical

    Photographer Rankin’s Annroy building by Trevor Horne Architects

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    A series of doors and windows products have been used in Trevor Horne Architects’ refurbishment of a 1960s office block in Kentish Town, which includes a photographer’s studio, private apartments and a penthouse with nearly frameless views over London

  • Ken Livingstone
    Opinion

    We can cut emissions by 60% by 2030

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Architects and builders can help bring about major change in London’s energy use

  • Review

    Building a Library 2: In Praise of Shadows by By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library

  • Features

    Dot to dot: 12 March 2010

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer with your address by 10am on Wednesday March 17 for a chance to win a copy of Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for an Emergent Humanity, by Buckminster Fuller

  • News

    Boots - 12 March 2010

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z