All Building Design articles in 17 April 2009 – Page 3

  • Opinion

    Selective views

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    Your correspondent has misquoted me in his article about Southwark towers (News April 9)

  • Opinion

    Internal logic

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    I read Peter Wilson’s description of Malcolm Fraser’s work in Berwick-upon-Tweed (Works April 9) and noted his assertion that “Clearly a great deal of thought has gone into the internal planning”

  • Opinion

    Hardest route

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    Regarding the debate on professional status, registration, title etc, whatever one’s view, it seems particularly unfair on those architects who qualified the “hard” way

  • Accordia: would Tory policy lead to more top-class housing?
    Opinion

    Would a Tory government be good for housing?

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    Yes, if it abolished the current planning system, says the RIBA’s Jan Maciag; no says Peter Barber, the Tories’ green paper is too ideologically cautious

  • Features

    Smart Geometry's show and tell

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    The latest Smart Geometry meet-up in San Francisco saw architects and other design practitioners keen to swap notes

  • RIBA’s HQ at Portland Place, in London.
    Features

    What exactly is the RIBA for?

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    What exact help does RIBA offer an out of work part II student wonders

  • In November 1980, then archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie took to the south London streets near his official Lambeth Palace residence to protest the Thatcher government’s cuts to public sector housebuilding and stock upgrades
    Features

    Dwellings near the house of the Lord

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    In November 1980, then archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie took to the south London streets near his official Lambeth Palace residence to protest the Thatcher government’s cuts to public sector housebuilding and stock upgrades

  • News

    This week's ups & downs

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    Hot and not

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    Don't make museums for morons

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects’ refurbishment of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum evades the vogue for dumbing down our cultural wonders

  • Opinion

    No need to delist

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    The delisting of Colin St John Wilson’s Hereford house (Letters 27 March) leads me to the conclusion that in any future listed building legislation, delisting should cease or be much more restricted

  • Features

    What can I do to mitigate legal costs?

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    I am considering bringing legal action to recover losses I have suffered on a project but I am put off by the cost. What are my options?

  • Opinion

    Conserving skills

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    As every architect who has some experience of practice will acknowledge, RIBA membership, Arb registration, and the membership of any professional institute by no means guarantees design ability. Neither of course does AABC membership ensure that an accredited conservation architect has design ability

  • Looking north across Rainham Marsh towards the elevated A13.
    Building Study

    Landroom's RSPB complex

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    Landroom’s complex of buildings including a bird hide for the RSPB’s Rainham Marsh site in east London makes a novel use of old shipping containers

  • Opinion

    No platform for Prince Charles

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    Why has the RIBA decided to invite the Prince of Wales back to deliver the RIBA Trust lecture (Debate April 9), trailed as though this is some major RIBA coup?

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Changing with the times

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    BD must now become a paid-for title to continue to offer the standards of journalism you expect

  • Owen Hatherley
    Opinion

    Time to face up to the brutalist truth

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4’s Red Riding trilogy suggested a different way of looking at the post-war city

  • Opinion

    Putting the boot in at Chelsea

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    The fallout continues over HRH’s intervention on Roger’s Barracks scheme, plus novel career moves for the unemployed architect: private eye, Gladiator...

  • The Eon house with laboratory attached.
    Technical

    The Eon house and the architecture of climate change

    The half a semi-detached house built to 1930s Building Regs and monitored for energy efficiency at the University of Nottingham is an architectural experiment that could benefit millions of British homes

  • Features

    Boost your architectural cad skills

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    Bentley’s Be Employable scheme is worth checking out at this time of stress in the world of architecture

  • Features

    Dot to dot result: April 9, 2009

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    The winner of last week’s competition was Satish Bhatia of Croydon, who identified Frank Gehry’s American Centre in Paris