All Building Design articles in 17 June 2005 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    Worthy of a medal only if the face fits

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Julian Wykham’s suggestion that the RIBA Gold Medal committee “should be looking at Britain” for a worthy candidate (News June 10) is at the very least breath-takingly ignorant and implies that Joseph Rykwert, once a professor at Cambridge and Bath Universities, AA tutor and graduate, is less than deserving of ...

  • The Bunker, part of a folio of nine prints created during Langlands and Bell’s residency in Afghanistan.
    Review

    A multi-channel experience

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Langlands and Bell link architecture with notions of power and human interaction

  • Flood, by UK designers Michael Cross and Julie Mathias.
    Review

    A thin slice of Europe

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Use of new technology proves the highlight of a show on European design

  • Architects at Feilden Clegg Bradley look to knowledge management to assist the informal exchange of information, which used to be routine when the practice was smaller.
    Features

    Share and enjoy...

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Feilden Clegg Bradley and Aedas are among the practices developing knowledge management systems. We discover that they are proving an invaluable tool for sharing practice information

  • Study in Scarlet: El Greco’s Saint Jerome.
    Review

    El Greco and Me

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Every time I am in New York, I make the trip uptown to the Frick Collection at 1 East 70th Street. New York City’s smaller museums such as the Frick and the Morgan Library are an amusement and a delight and contain the personal collections of some of America’s robber ...

  • News

    Future plan threatens old schools, warns EH

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    English Heritage has warned that nearly 6,000 listed schools across the country could be endangered by the government’s ambitious £2.2 billion schools building programme.

  • Opinion

    Doing our duty

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    In response to your story, “Winchester planners ‘failing in duty of care’” (News June 3), the council has a high reputation for the quality of its service.

  • Transport for London’s preferred bridge design was one of three by Marks Barfield.
    News

    Design edge missing in Thames Gateway link

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Cabe refuses to endorse Marks Barfield’s flagship bridge proposal

  • Designs with depth: The terracotta cladding of Adler & Sullivan’s Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York, 1895
    News

    The ideas deficit

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    We need to embrace past architectural traditions in order to build anything meaningful and lasting today

  • News

    Corporation queries Kens green dream

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    London mayor Ken Livingstone’s green dream could be “impossible” to achieve according to the Corporation of London.

  • The main elevation to Keeley Street with Freemasons’ Hall beyond and Space House to the right of the image.
    Building Study

    City literacy

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Cheap yet sophisticated, Allies & Morrison’s City Lit impresses Ellis Woodman

  • Opinion

    Clear case for the crit

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Putting aside the rather unsubstantiated view that the crit is a clear cause for the drop-out of women from architectural education (Campaign June 10), I get the impression that one of the main reasons for a school to have to limit the traditional crit is the problem of reviewing an ...

  • News

    Caravan design on Hemingway hitlist

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Designer Wayne Hemingway, fresh from his savaging of new volume-housing design in the pages of BD last month (News Analysis May 13), has taken on a new design target: the caravan.

  • News

    Cafe taken off menu

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow square plans scrapped

  • The main elevation to Keeley Street with Freemasons’ Hall beyond and Space House to the right of the image.
    Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Chip off the block The rampant marketing campaign for Urban Splash and “super-famous” architect Will Alsop’s new apartments in the New Islington development in east Manchester continues apace. The apartments, called Chips because they look like, er, chips, are now for sale. The marketing campaign has attracted praise from none ...

  • Foster: revered in Germany; ignored in UK.
    Opinion

    Uncelebrated birthday boy

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster must have known that the Brits are rubbish at remembering birthdays. When his 70th came around earlier this month, he jetted out of the country to celebrate with his family in some warmer clime

  • Opinion

    Language barrier

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Your caption on French architect Jean Nouvel’s design for One New Change (News June 10) quotes him as saying “it will set up a dialogue with St Paul’s Cathedral and the neighbouring buildings”.

  • News

    Scottish watchdog bares teeth at school designs

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish Executive’s new design watchdog has signalled a tough approach to design quality by slamming one of the country’s largest education projects.

  • News

    Preservation plan for Barbican

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    A new heritage management plan for the listed Barbican estate in central London proposes the preservation of one of each of the eight types of flats in the massive development exactly as they were when completed in the seventies.

  • Piercy Conner’s sketch design for a recent competition of a university building rendered in 3D Studio Max and overpainted in Photoshop using Wacom’s Cintiq drawing tablet.
    Features

    Roadtest: Back to the drawing board

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    The latest pen-to-screen drawing tool is Wacom’s Cintiq 21UX tablet. BD asked a trio of demanding users to put it through its paces. They found it precise, seamless and just tempting enough to be worth the cost