All Building Design articles in 15 June 2007 – Page 2
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FeaturesThe Out of Pub Experience by Tom Lewith
The ‘Out of Pub Experience’ by RCA graduate Tom Lewith turns the new status of the smoker as social outcast on its head making social detachment desirable.
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FeaturesUrban Green Space by Nord
BD’s Young Architect of the Year, Scottish practice Nord has designed this shelter for a nightclub carpark in Glasgow city centre.
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News
RMJM to merge with US practice
RMJM and US architect Hillier have announced they are to merge, creating a 1,000-strong firm with offices in 16 cities around the world. The new practice will have more than $15 billion of current work on its books, and offices in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.The new ...
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NewsChipperfield unveils Turner Contemporary design for Margate - images
David Chipperfield Architects has revealed its design for the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate. The scheme replaces Snøhetta Spence’s project for a site at the end of Margate Pier, which was abandoned last year after costs rose to an estimated £48 million.The new scheme is budgeted at £17.4 million and ...
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NewsPeter Cook receives a knighthood
Peter Cook has received a knighthood for services to architecture in the Queen’s Birthday Honours announced on Saturday.The Archigram member, academic and designer of the 2012 Olympic Stadium said the award “offers a symbol of hope to the young”.“It gives hope to all those people not just doing boring buildings ...
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NewsNews Junkie: 16 and 17 June
For your browsing pleasure this week: boomtime for bourgeois yurts, a ludic cityscape featuring teddy bears dressed in bridal costumes, and the 'ineluctable modality of the visible...'
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Opinion
Streets wise
The shared surface/space concept (News June 8) is well established and proven in practice, and aims to adjust the skewed balance between motor vehicles and other users in urban areas.
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Opinion
Stars’ turns
A star line-up turned out last Monday at Banqueting House to celebrate Richard Rogers’ Pritzker Prize win.
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OpinionRelative value
I wonder how the £111 million spent on the refurbishment of the Festival Hall compares with its original cost. Can anyone enlighten me?
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NewsMartello Tower take two
Work has been completed on a boutique office building in Jersey designed by Buckley Gray Yeoman.
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FeaturesMaking the model project
Edinburgh-based practice Gilberts invested in a Z Corp rapid prototyping machine to turn cad images into physical models. A year on, the architect and an engineer discuss the process and the dividends it has brought
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NewsMarsh view’s low profile
LSI Architects has completed this £675,000 Norfolk Wildlife Trust visitor centre on the north Norfolk coast, featuring a double-curved, moss-covered roof.
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Opinion
London luvvies
Despite my suspicions that Cabe was a quango for London luvvies, I naively applied recently for one of 31 positions on its newly formed school panel. This reviews educational schemes and attempts to raise architectural standards.
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Opinion
Karma life
The Lerab Ling Buddhist Retreat Centre, north of Montpellier in France, is getting ready to welcome its latest recruit, Giles Oliver, a partner at Penoyre & Prasad, who is leaving the practice to spend 18 months at the centre.
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NewsA good year for Rioja
Foreign Office Architects has completed its largest project since its debut work, the Yokohama Ferry Terminal.
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NewsMilliner’s Wharf set to go on site
The first phase of an £80 million mixed-use development in east Manchester by Design Group 3 Architects is due to start on site next month.
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NewsRES gives Strong sustainable role
The former managing director of the Building Research Establishment’s environment division, David Strong, has been appointed chief executive of the Renewable Energy Systems’ (RES) new sustainable buildings consultancy.
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Opinion
It's a flyer
Bill Dunster is being held up as a shining example of creativity by those well known visionaries, Canon, who singled out the architect as an example of someone “who is actively pushing the boundaries.”