All Building Design articles in 14 November 2008
14 November 2008-
CompetitionsRoom to let in Trellick Tower
I have one double room to let in my 3 bed, 110 sqm flat on the 22nd floor of Trellick Tower. The property has a large kitchen, sitting room and balcony. The flat has three walls of glass facing towards the east, south and west. It's possible to watch ...
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ReviewLe Corbusier: The Art of Architecture until January 18
Corb fever grips Liverpool with this in depth documentation of the extraordinary career and enduring legacy of Le Corbusier (1887-1965).
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Review
Richard Serra: Sculpture until December 20
The Gagosian Gallery is currently running two exhibitions of new work by Richard Serra. Three new steel sculptures are on show at the Britannia Street galleries together with small, geometric forged steel plates with paint stick applied to the surface, entitled “forged drawings"
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ReviewRoger Hiorns: Seizure until 30 November 2008
Seizure is Hiorns' most ambitious work to date, the artist creates, by filling a property with copper sulphate solution, the result is a crystallised, vivid sculptural form within the very fabric of a Harper road, a housing estate near London Bridge.
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FeaturesDot to dot November 14
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday November 19 for a chance to win a copy of The Story of Broadcasting House, Home of the BBC by Mark Hines
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NewsJohn Lyall Architects pumps up for 2012
John Lyall Architects’ designs for a pumping station in the Olympic Park in east London have been granted planning permission.
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News
£3.6 billion building programme
More than 1,500 primary schools will be rebuilt or refurbished from next April after the government gave the go-ahead to the Primary Capital Programme (PCP) worth £3.6 billion this week.
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ReviewChannel 4’s Home Show has a new kind of hero
Channel 4’s post-property boom domestic architectural show unleashes architectural superman George Clarke
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FeaturesDot to dot results: November 7
Last week’s competition winner was Kris Rutherford of Thomson Dawes in Kilmarnock, who identified City Hall by Foster & Partners.
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OpinionAcademies rule
Owen Hatherley’s criticism that the academy schools programme is meretricious misses the point (Opinion October 31).
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TechnicalCartwright Pickard’s modular housing for east Africa
Cartwright Pickard is creating modular homes for east Africa that can be rapidly assembled offsite
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Opinion
Red alert
Bloggers are asking why this month’s RIBA Journal carries a scathing review of Make’s Jubilee Campus at Nottingham University, featuring ski-slope buildings clad in landscape-format terracotta panels in random shades of blood red, while praising the rather similar (landscape-format, pressed metal panels in, er, random shades of blood red) Sheppard ...
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NewsGreen light for Bond Bryan’s West Anglia campus
Bond Bryan Architects’ new £92 million campus for the College of West Anglia has been granted planning permission.
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OpinionWill the downturn be good for architectural creativity?
Yes, says Nigel Coates, as that’s when ideas are nurtured, but Grimshaw partner Neven Sidor believes creativity is driven by surplus
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OpinionArchitecture failed in Deptford
Isn’t BD missing the “elephant in the room” in its reporting of the Stephen Lawrence Centre fiasco (November 7)? Namely, a failure of architecture.
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TechnicalIwamoto Scott Architecture’s Voussoir Cloud
Iwamoto Scott’s Voussoir Cloud at the Southern California Institute of Architecture is a temporary installation showcasing the power of building offsite with paper
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News
Outcry as Landscape Institute shuts archive
Leading figures in landscape architecture have slammed the Landscape Institute’s decision to close its archive and downsize its library.
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NewsBoris backs Crossrail in transport strategy
London mayor Boris Johnson has pledged to invest in Crossrail as part of his 10-year business plan for the capital’s transport system.