All Building Design articles in 12 September 2008 – Page 2
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Building StudyNorwegian Embassy reflects Himalayan setting
The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal, designed by Norwegian firm Kristin Jarmund Architects, has officially opened.
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TechnicalModern-day tree house
Fab Tree Hab designed by MIT architects explores the possibility of growing homes from trees
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ReviewVenice Biennale: The highlights (images)
Will Hunter takes us on a guided tour of the highlights of the opening day of the 2008 Venice Biennale.
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Opinion
Power surge
Heathrow is indeed too bossy by half (Jonathan Glancey, September 5). Apart from anything else, a flight path over Greater London has always been close to madness on safety grounds.
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Opinion
Naked truth
An architect couple in India have enraged a man in his sixties to such an extent that he performed an extraordinary naked protest in court this week.
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Opinion
Murphy’s law
Perhaps Richard Murphy has spent so long “building down back lanes or in people’s back gardens” that he has lost sight of the rare characteristics that make Edinburgh such an inappropriate location for ego-driven architecture (Solutions, September 5).
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FeaturesJonathan Woolf: The Wynd
The pattern of long “wynds” or “pends” — very narrow streets running perpendicular off both sides of a single main street — is a significant medieval contribution to urbanity and can still be enjoyed all over Scotland.
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News
Lancaster scheme ‘heavy handed’
Plans by architect 3D Reid for a 4ha redevelopment in central Lancaster have been slammed by the Victorian Society.
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Opinion
..or habitual prejudice?
All traditionalists must be grateful for the editor’s call for balance. It is interesting, however, to see that the editorial itself is a concise sample of habitual professional prejudice.
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FeaturesNeil Gillespie: Orkney
Thomas A Clark in his poem Forest Without Trees talks of the land hardening as you journey north.
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NewsFirst steps in Venice
Scotland’s first Venice Biennale pavilion, by Gareth Hoskins, is a 7m-high timber structure inspired by public steps.
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Opinion
Height of fame
When illustrating A Rich Harvest (Culture September 5) with the BT Tower, it was amiss of Liz Bury not to attribute the building design to the late Eric Bedford, chief architect of the Ministry of Works.
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News
International entrants sought
Next year’s US and European-run International Architecture Awards are open for submissions.
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News
Office wins top energy rating
Cooper Cromar’s 1,828sq m Solais House has been awarded an energy performance certificate A.
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TechnicalHOK Sports elegant tackling
HOK Sport, with Scott Tallon Walker, is transforming Dublin’s Landsdowne Road stadium while responding to local constraints
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FeaturesSandy Wright: Kilmartin Glen, Dunadd Fort and Temple Wood
Kilmartin Glen is a linear cemetery dating to about 3000 BC.
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FeaturesJohn McAslan: Sugar warehouse & James watt dock, Greenock
My modernist instincts remain informed by my early and continuing obsession with 19th century British industrial architecture.
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FeaturesGraeme Massie: Islay distilleries
The first trace of activity is visible as one begins the descent over Laggan Bay to the airport — in the distance, sharp incisions outline subtractive cuts in the landscape.