All Building Design articles in 15 August 2008 – Page 3
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Opinion
Eating disorder
From Carolyn Steel’s opinion piece on August 1, it sounds as if she and housing minister Caroline Flint would strike a few sparks.
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FeaturesDyson with disaster
An early effort from product designer James Dyson — still battling to get his design school in Bath off the ground — won a BD award back in the seventies
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NewsPFS to give schools design threshold
Partnerships for Schools has confirmed it will introduce a minimum design standard to boost the calibre of schools in the £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme.
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ReviewDeacon and Woodrow’s unintentional installation
Tony McIntyre hails an electrifying new show of joint work by sculptors Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow at Bloomberg’s London gallery
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Building StudyRapp & Rapp’s cutting-edge normality
The solid massiveness of Rapp & Rapp’s mixed-use development for Ypenburg, a new district located on a former Nato airfield near The Hague, sits easily with the area’s suburban life, reports Biq Architects’ Hans van der Heijden
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Opinion
Social contract
Saul Metzstein is spot on about the corrosive effects of the media casually linking postwar architecture and crime (Opinion August 8).
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FeaturesWill he take my clients?
One of the brightest stars in my business has announced he is leaving to set up his own practice. I am worried he will take some clients with him. What can I do?
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Opinion
Poor class
It’s all very well for BD to rave about the “pigeon fanciers’ hangout in Sheffield” (Class of 2008, August 8), but you won’t have to clear up the crap.
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Opinion
Chipping in
CZWG Architects has joined jelly-mould specialist Bompass & Parr on its latest design-led food caper.
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OpinionMcCloud: No chaos at Hab
I am writing to correct some of the points made in your news article and editorial about Hab Oakus LLP (News August 8).
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Technical
Offsetting must form part of our carbon-cutting diet
Phil Clark argues the merit of using carbon offset schemes in the quest to reduce global CO2 emissions
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NewsCarbon Challenge team nominated
Architect Brown Smith Baker, Morris Homes and Gentoo Homes have been selected as the preferred development team for the first phase of Peterborough’s South Bank redevelopment, part of English Partnerships’ Carbon Challenge.
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FeaturesHelpdesk: where has my broadband speed gone?
Hugh Davies offers tips on how to boost your web speed — from upping your ‘contention ratio’ to implementing policy on ‘acceptable net use’ in the office
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Opinion
Brains trust
How very sad that architecture’s own Eeyore has encountered construction (“Kevin McCloud’s own ‘grand design’ in chaos”, News August 8).
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ReviewThinking outside the box with Buckminster Fuller
A new book on US design guru Buckminster Fuller engages with the breadth of his interests, says Ken Powell
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OpinionIs losing the bid now a better option?
Convoluted EU procurement rules are a circle of hell. Let’s junk them and start again
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NewsHOK’s black granite embassy set to battle the elements in Jakarta
HOK has released the first images of its design for the British Embassy in central Jakarta, Indonesia.
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FeaturesOur turn to give back to Soane
Sir John Soane’s Museum, that invaluable cabinet of curiosities, is appealing for funds for its Open Up the Soane project.
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FeaturesShall I boycott these awards?
I’ve been invited to an architectural awards ceremony, but I know the buildings were never visited by the judges. Do I go or stage a boycott?
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News
Cabe on attack over Halifax bid
Cabe’s design review panel has slammed proposals by Harris Partnership for a mixed-use scheme in Halifax.
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