All Building Design articles in 15 February 2008 – Page 2
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NewsVandals attack Adjaye’s Stephen Lawrence Centre
Less than a week after it was officially opened, David Adjaye’s Stephen Lawrence Centre has suffered thousands of pounds worth of damage at the hands of vandals. Six windows by Turner prize winning artist Chris Ofili were smashed by bricks in the early hours of Thursday morning, according to a ...
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Opinion
Heralding the return of the new town
Architecture Foundation director Rowan Moore wonders what Gordon Brown’s eco-towns can learn from the post-war new towns
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FeaturesWhat is virtualisation?
I have heard something about “virtualisation” — but what does it mean, and how can it be of use to me?
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Opinion
Squaring up
It is a pity that Richard Rogers found it necessary to intervene (News February 8) in the selection of the team to carry out the preliminary ideas for the part-pedestrianisation of Parliament Square.
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Opinion
Pound stretcher
So the expenses of Arb board members have reached £94,000 a year (News February 8) — so what?
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Opinion
Slip of paper
Drawings by the late Sandy Wilson, on show at Pallant House in Chichester, provide an interesting footnote to one of the more entertaining architectural rows of recent times.
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NewsRival Palace plan offered
Campaigners have drawn up plans for a £220 million replica of south London’s Crystal Palace, which was destroyed by fire in 1936, in response to the London Development Agency’s plan for the park.
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NewsShed KM’s Liverpool vision
Shed KM’s has unveiled its £26 million vision for one of Liverpool’s most famous landmarks, the former Littlewoods building on the eastern gateway to the city.
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OpinionStations’ magic ingredient
Making New Street exciting is an aim all our stations should aspire to, but Network Rail will need to hold its nerve
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NewsPage & Park-designed HQ opens
Page & Park’s £2.9 million headquarters for the Carnegie UK Trust at Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline (pictured) was opened by Princess Anne on Wednesday (February 13).
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TechnicalHow RMJM does the twist in Russia
A window assembly that accommodates flat glass in a twisting frame is the key to cladding RMJM’s Moscow City Palace tower
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Opinion
Grateful Ted
At his Gold Medal dinner at the RIBA this week, Ted Cullinan said he was delighted to receive the award at such a young age.
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NewsHow does Fat's garden grow?
The Belvedere, a 19-storey, mixed-use timber-clad tower designed by Fat, has been put in for planning.The tower, to stand in Mile End Park in east London, has a vertical garden, a ground floor restaurant and 27 flats, designed to meet level four of the Code for Sustainable Homes. The building’s ...
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FeaturesStatues leave me stoney faced
The statutes at the refurbished St Pancras Station have started a much needed debate about their role in public life
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NewsMake to turn Edinburgh Odeon into hotel
Make plans to convert an art deco former Odeon cinema in Edinburgh into an arts hotel.
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NewsLifschutz: Doon St redesign is an option
Alex Lifschutz has conceded that he will redesign his 43-storey Doon Street tower, near Waterloo in London, to get planning, as a public inquiry into the controversial scheme begins.
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Opinion
Disengaged
With reference to Rick Mather’s quote (News February 8), the next time I admire the view from my window or take the dogs for a walk, I must remind myself that what I’m really doing is “engaging with the landscape”.
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NewsStudio E hailed for school design
Studio E Architects has been named best school architect in the British Council for School Environments awards.
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FeaturesGlued to their deckchairs
Reyner Banham addresses the then London marathon — the 10-day Art-Net Rally held at the AA in 1976