All Building Design articles in 13 June 2008 – Page 3
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OpinionA design folly sent to test our mettle
The textureless, bland, context-immune metal panel threatens to define our age
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ReviewSudley’s garden of not-so-earthly delights
Sudeley Castle’s Artists’ Playground is a great idea, but not as much fun as it sounds, says Tony McIntyre
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FeaturesDogs have their day at the LFA
Is modern architecture’s inability to accommodate man’s best friend a measure of its joylessness?
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NewsTropical medicine facility completed
Sheppard Robson’s Centre for Tropical & Infectious Diseases for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been completed.
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NewsCommercial lease will fund RA refurb
David Chipperfield is picked to give Royal Academy a modern approach
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Opinion
Clarifications
In last week’s interview with Eric Parry, we mistakenly referred to the refusal of the second planning application. It was, as made clear elsewhere on the page, the first application that was refused.
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TechnicalCladding designs at the cutting edge
Advances in technology mean that cladding can take on increasingly elaborate decorative forms. Cathy Strongman looks at three of the latest projects to exploit this approach, taking their inspiration from tree branches, flowers and Polish folk-art
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OpinionThe challenge for Oxford
Next month’s debate on architectural education must accept that professional boundaries are a thing of the past
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NewsEnvironmental centre planned for former lime quarry
Halliday Clark Architects’ scheme to build an environmental centre in a disused quarry has been submitted to Yorkshire Dales National Park for detailed planning.
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NewsCauseway takes a giant step forward
Three years after winning an international competition to design a new visitor centre at Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, Heneghan Peng Architects’ scheme was finally submitted for planning this week.
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NewsCall to dump design tsar
Leading developers have rejected the idea of a London “design tsar”, dismissing the post as “another bloody layer of bureaucracy”.
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Opinion
Cabe’s shame
Cabe’s response to the proposed Tesco scheme for the historic — and delightful — market town of Hadleigh is deeply depressing and casts doubt on the quango’s credibility.
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NewsPoor designs kill off bus shelter contest
A competition to redesign London’s 12,000 bus shelters has been scrapped because the shortlisted schemes by firms including Conran & Partners, Ian Ritchie Architects and Arups were not considered good enough.
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ReviewLooking, learning and laughing with Bruce Goff
In the run-up to a Tate Modern symposium this month, Charles Jencks looks at why US architect Bruce Goff is worth reassessing
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TechnicalHow vertical wall creator Patrick Blanc gets his gardens to grow
Think of living walls, and it’s most likely to be Patrick Blanc’s vertical gardens that spring to mind — most recently the foliage-covered facades for Jean Nouvel’s Musée du Quai Branly in Paris and Herzog & de Meuron’s Caixa Forum in Madrid.
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NewsPatel Taylor’s park draws a thin green line through Birmingham
Patel Taylor’s £12.5 million scheme for Eastside City Park, a green, linear park planned for Birmingham, has been granted outline planning approval.
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Opinion
Badly briefed
In his Zaha Hadid profile in the the Economist’s quarterly style magazine, Jonathan Meades describes the architectural press as “little more than a deferential PR machine” for Zaha and her like. Ouch!
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News
PMs Award shortlist out
Denton Corker Marshall’s Civil Justice Centre in Manchester, Allies & Morrison’s Festival Hall revamp and Muma’s Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall are on the 21-strong shortlist for the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award, the annual gong that rewards design-led regeneration projects.