All Building Design articles in 12 September 2008 – Page 5
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NewsAnger as visitor centre list chosen in six hours
RIBA and RIAS join architects calling on National Trust to explain Hadrian’s Wall decision
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Features
Saul Metzstein: Glasgow Airport
The design of Spence Glover & Ferguson’s Glasgow Airport is no more inherently Scottish than the neoclassical marvels of Georgian Edinburgh or Victorian Glasgow.
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OpinionGet Agrippa
One resident among the herds who flocked to Westminster council’s hearing on Chelsea Barracks last Thursday night was quick to point out the link between mayor Boris Johnson and his adviser “Agrippa”, aka Richard Rogers (pictured).
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FeaturesDéjà vu all over again
In a special meta edition, we look back at a piece by BD’s then editor Martin Pawley, who was explaining the 1975 housing slump by contrasting it with a late 19th century housing slump
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NewsArt takes an ad break
Plans for a new piece of public art funded through advertising revenue have been unveiled in the West Midlands.
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OpinionWorld in action
In the run-up to the opening of the Venice Biennale, the Giardini has been a hive of activity over past weeks.
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FeaturesValerio Olgiati: The garden of Crathes castle, Aberdeenshire
The plants are pruned in a rather unnatural way; the ground is slightly and very regularly sloping.
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FeaturesDot to Dot results: September 5
Last week’s competition winner was Caroline Gore-Booth of CZWG, who identified the Pompidou Centre by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano.
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FeaturesDot to Dot September 12
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday September 17 for a chance to win a copy of Historic Views of London by Ann Saunders.
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News
Canterbury gets £500,000 repair
The Save Canterbury Cathedral Appeal has announced a 20-week, £500,000 project to repair the lead roof on the historic building’s south-east transept.
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FeaturesIsi Metzstein: Northern insurance building, Glasgow
In Glasgow city centre, a gridiron disciplines the broad streets and narrow lanes, and this promotes a radical uncoupling of facade treatment.
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OpinionThe broken heart of east Greenwich
What used to be Greenwich District Hospital is now a vast, overgrown wasteland
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NewsCurator Ellis Woodman on the British Pavilion
Housing is the theme of the British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. Its curator, BD’s Ellis Woodman, finds that while the UK market may be in turmoil, British housing architects are much in demand all over Europe
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FeaturesKathryn Findlay: Forth rail bridge, Edinburgh
These days we seem to be a nation of the safe and the romantic, but Scots should recognise that our country has historically played a global role in the great debates of the day.
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OpinionThe Venice Biennale has become reflection of the state architecture is in
It may be unfair to compare the most important and expensive scientific experiment the world has ever known with a two-month-long architecture extravaganza, but the real cultural event of this week was not the opening of the Venice Biennale but the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider.
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