All Building Design articles in 16 January 2009 – Page 2
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ReviewAnish Kapoor: Shooting into the Corner until April 19
The show at MAK presents four large wax works by Anish Kapoor, three of which were developed especially for “Shooting into the Corner”. On view in the central exhibition hall will be “Shooting into the Corner, 2008/2009”, a catapult that continually shoots prefabricated projectiles against the wall of the exhibition ...
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News
Cabe says Donington plans not up to speed
Cabe has mauled proposals to transform Derby’s Donington Park into a new Formula 1 British Grand Prix venue, damning the designs as “disappointingly weak”.
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NewsJean Nouvel’s Copenhagen Concert Hall opens
Jean Nouvel’s Copenhagen Concert Hall for Danish public broadcaster DR opened this weekend.
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NewsHugill to advise HCA on financial models
The Homes and Communities Agency has appointed former Lend Lease Europe chairman Nigel Hugill as a special adviser to help devise credit crunch-beating funding strategies.
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CompetitionsOffice Space to Let: Shoreditch
Two independent and self-contained office spaces to rent in Shoreditch. Very close to Liverpool St station.
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NewsEH unchanged in opposing Robin Hood Gardens listing
English Heritage has refused to alter its opposition to the proposed listing of Robin Hood Gardens.
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NewsBlears calls in 3DReid’s £150 million retail scheme for Lancaster
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has called in a controversial £150 million retail-led scheme for Lancaster by 3DReid following protests by English Heritage and campaigners including architect and TV presenter Ptolemy Dean.
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FeaturesRIBA/Foster £6,000 architecture travel scholarship now to be awarded annually
The RIBA’s Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship for students is to be awarded each year following an extra £100,000 endowment from Foster & Partners.
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News
American Institute of Architects says US construction set to slow in 2009
Construction activity in the US is set to slow sharply during 2009, with office and retail schemes likely to be particularly hard hit, according to a survey by the American Institute of Architects.
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NewsStowe & Beale’s £4 million revamp for Westminster Abbey Chapter House
Conservation architect Stowe & Beale and English Heritage have announced a £4 million project to refurbish Westminster Abbey’s 13th century Chapter House in central London, considered to be the birthplace of the UK parliamentary system.
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NewsLava’s Green Void fills Sydney Customs House
This 20m-high architectural installation of green Lycra — inspired by the geometrics of plants, spider webs and soap bubbles — has been hung in the central atrium of Customs House in Sydney.
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News
Atkins cuts 200 staff following Middle East slowdown
Atkins is to make more than 200 staff redundant following a major slowdown in its work in the Middle East, it announced today.
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Opinion
Pulling rank
Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed the omission of some leading research institutions from your list of the “top 25” schools of architecture (News January 9).
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Opinion
Spirited place
I enjoyed your piece on Jim Stirling’s Andrew Melville Hall (Solutions January 9). As my daughter is studying in St Andrews, I take every opportunity to wander around the last of his university buildings in the UK.
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ReviewOur temporary traces
Mark Pimlott has created a luminous set of photographs of urban landscapes, says Biq’s Hans van der Heijden
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FeaturesIn praise of tungsten light
Why is government phasing out the harmless and cheerful tungsten bulb while sanctioning the mania for overlighting?
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FeaturesRole of tomb paintings in the life of Riley
BD’s Douglas Stephen interviewed Bridget Riley in 1984 on the occasion of her show at the RIBA about her work at the Royal Liverpool Hospital
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News
Firms picked for Scottish healthcare framework
Aedas, Keppie Design and Nightingale Associates are among a crop of practices to have made it onto a massive £900 million framework to design hospitals and healthcare facilities in Scotland.
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OpinionEasy does it
Future Systems’ Jan Kaplicky suggests “[Fosters’ bus] entry is totally obsolete” (Boots January 9). I would agree — not because of the design concept but because it would be economically impracticable to construct and maintain.
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