All Building Design articles in 16 May 2008 – Page 4
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Opinion
What the blazes?
Boots’ sympathy goes to Hans van der Heijden, director at BIQ Architecten, who suffered a double whammy on Tuesday.
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NewsTop UK firms take starring role at Venice Biennale
A glittering list of British architects including Zaha Hadid, Nigel Coates and AOC will exhibit their work at the Venice Biennale, adding further home-grown talent to the five housing firms already picked for the British pavilion.
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NewsSnøhetta slams Kent bid for Turner costs
Norwegian practice Snøhetta has hit back at Kent County Council after the local authority began legal proceedings against the practice and its partner Stephen Spence over the duo’s aborted Turner Contemporary gallery scheme in Margate.
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NewsBDP looks east in worldwide expansion
Building Design Partnership has acquired its first foreign practice as part of an unprecedented drive to expand its overseas operation.
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NewsBDP sustainability chief moves west
BDP’s head of sustainability Trevor Butler is relocating to Canada to start a new company which aims to bridge the gap between architects and engineers to realise sustainable buildings.
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NewsCabe backs efforts to save ‘ground-breaking’ estate
Review panel’s call for listing renews pressure on Hodge as Rogers urges ‘let’s keep fighting’
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ReviewArt of winning
Andy Warhol, David Hockney, RB Kitaj and Victor Vasarely are among the many talents who have turned their hands to designing Olympic posters.
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TechnicalPaxton Locher Architects' curved roof
How Paxton Locher Architects designed a curved roof with a high U-value and solar heat collection
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OpinionHave computers damaged architects’ design quality?
Yes, as students lose drawing skills and the feel for a building, says Peter Eisenmann; No, look at the concepts they open architects’ minds to, says Neil Spiller
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Features
Think debate: Are engineers the new architects?
Chani Leahong, senior associate at Fulcrum Consulting says architects lack technical training; while structural engineer Jane Wernick claims engineers are the unsung handmaidens to architects.
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TechnicalThink event explores the engineer as architect debate
Is the architectural profession under attack in our supposedly new shiny sustainable world? This debate has been highlighted in the pages of BD, and came to life at a great session at last week’s Think event, chaired by BD editor Amanda Baillieu, on whether engineers are the new architects.
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News
Roof chosen for Aquatics Centre
Zaha Hadid’s £303 million Aquatics Centre, approved by planners this week, will feature an aluminium standing-seam roof, the Olympic Delivery Authority has revealed.
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NewsRoyal Mail’s stamp of approval
Great British cathedral architecture is celebrated with a set of commemorative stamps issued by Royal Mail this week.
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NewsDublin’s new apartments get a Metropolitan look
A new £58 million residential scheme in the north Dublin suburb of Belmayne by Metropolitan Workshop has gone on site after recently winning planning permission.
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FeaturesThe Bartlett’s Neil Spiller is still blazing a trail after all these years
In the first of a new series on how architecture schools are responding to new technology, the Bartlett’s Neil Spiller says the rapid evolution of computing is liberating for architects, but also poses some serious challenges
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FeaturesHow about a truly juicy memoir?
Jonathan Glancey laments the lack of revealing architectural autobiographies
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Opinion
Dot to dot results: May 9
The winner of last week’s competition was Ryan Stuckey of Aberdare, who identified Erich Mendelsohn’s Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany. He will receive a copy of Jørn Utzon’s Kuwait National Assembly Logbook.
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News
RSHP reports 25% profit increase
Pre-tax profits and turnover at Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners leapt by more than 25% last year.
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ReviewGlasgow’s 1938 British Empire exhibition remembered
Andy MacMillan recalls his childhood visit to the British Empire exhibition at Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park, being marked by an exhibition of rare film footage
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FeaturesDot to Dot May 16
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday May 21 for a chance to win the revised edition of Cities People Planet, by Herbert Girardet.
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