All Building Design articles in 12 September 2008 – Page 3
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OpinionDesign wobble?
Has anyone else noticed that flicking from the Practice page to the Archive picture (BD September 5) gives a good indication of the extent to which a designer’s responsibilities have changed… even if the bottom of the ladder is “adequately secured”?Bryan Scott, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
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NewsWilkinson Eyre looks to geology for earth sciences department
Oxford City Council has granted planning permis-sion for Oxford University’s new department of earth sciences, designed by Wilkinson Eyre.
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Opinion
Costly Hadid
When are you going to learn that commissioning a Zaha Hadid building (News September 5) always produces the same tale of a rising budget for an overambitious, “iconic” structure?
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NewsFretton completes London terrace
Tony Fretton Architects has completed a hybrid development in the London Borough of Lambeth commissioned by Future Living Spaces, a joint venture from private developers Baylight Properties and Servite Housing Association.
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NewsKensington Taylor’s community hub
Architect Kensington Taylor has won planning consent for this £5.7million community library and hub project in Paignton, south Devon.
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OpinionCorrect on the classicists…
I am one of the few surviving from the Bartlett of the fifties — the last school of classical architecture in the apostolic tradition of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
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FeaturesClare Wright: Glasgow tenements
Last year I was an awards assessor in Scotland and, having driven all over the country looking at new buildings, I concluded that there is a distinct Scottish architectural culture.
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News
London Met team wins Korean city competition
A British-based team is one of three winners in a competition to design the concept for a huge new city in South Korea.
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FeaturesMalcolm Fraser: Church of St Columba, Fife
The great upheaval of the Scottish Reformation was underpinned intellectually by the primacy of the Word over the image.
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FeaturesGavin Stamp: St Vincent street church, Glasgow
I suppose it is boringly predictable that I should choose a building by Alexander “Greek” Thomson but both fate and Glasgow have been unkind to his creations, and the St Vincent Street Church is now the only intact survivor of the three amazing Presbyterian temples he designed. But it is ...
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NewsWalker church listed
A modernist church designed by Derek Walker — the former chief architect of Milton Keynes — has become the first 20th century building to be listed this year.
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FeaturesChristopher Platt: Firth of Clyde
It’s easy to avoid the sentimentality and dubious songs if you experience a place as a child “without thinking about it”, to paraphrase Peter Zumthor.
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News
Zero-carbon plans for Chichester
John Thompson & Partners has submitted an outline planning application for a huge zero-carbon project on the former Graylingwell hospital site in Chichester.
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Opinion
Checking criteria
I was disturbed to read that it will be a requirement for local authorities to report on the design quality of new housing by marking performance against Cabe’s set of 20 criteria (News August 29).
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FeaturesCharlie Sutherland: Rohallion lodge, Perthshire
This typical Scottish hunting lodge was built in Perthshire for Sir William Stewart, an eccentric Victorian explorer.
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FeaturesCharles Rattray: Deeside
Studded with tower houses, Deeside, the great valley running from the Cairngorms to the sea, is a man-made scene as well as an enduring geology.
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ReviewOscar Niemeyer, sensuous centurion
The career of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, often underrated, is celebrated in this marvellous account, writes Richard Weston
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TechnicalNew ways to catch some rays
Photovoltaics may generate clean electricity, but they’re expensive and difficult to integrate with a building’s fabric. Will the next generation of PV technologies tackle these problems?
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NewsThomas to run Edaw Cardiff office
Keith Thomas has joined Edaw as a senior director with the job of establishing a Cardiff office to serve Wales and the South-west.
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FeaturesCharlie Hussey: Calton Hill, Edinburgh
I can think of few cities in the world that have such a powerful relationship with the landscape as Edinburgh — and Calton Hill epitomises this.