All Building Design articles in 20 November 2009 – Page 4

  • Opinion

    Skateboarders take on the Supreme Court (benches)

    2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

    The elegant carved stone anti-car bomb benches outside Feilden & Mawson’s Supreme Court in Parliament Square are themselves protected by 6ft fences. It turns out a rogue skateboarder knocked a chunk out of one of them before the court was even open

  • Opinion

    Climate change beyond ‘belief’

    2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

    I am amazed that many usually rational people — including architects — have turned into evangelical, fanatical bigots when it comes to the question of climate and energy

  • Frank Auerbach’s Shell Building Site from the Thames, 1959.
    Review

    Auerbach: Opportunity from chaos

    2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

    Courtauld Gallery exhibition shows Frank Auerbach’s paintings were inspired by post-war destruction and the pace of change

  • Opinion

    United approach

    2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

    The construction industry cannot afford to waste any more time debating which scientific data it prefers to believe. There is a “good enough” consensus among climate scientists that humans can affect climate

  • Opinion

    Can’t win ’em all

    2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

    It is sad to read of the suspension of the scheme to extend Asplund’s Stockholm City Library (News November 13), but predictable. The difficulty with competitions that rely on a winning design, which is then implemented, is the lack of opportunity for reflection and consultation

  • News

    Boots - 20 November 2009

    2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

  • Opinion

    Corrections - 20 November 2009

    2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

    The image used with last week’s news story “Stockholm axes plan for library extension” was not the winning entry by Heike Hanada as stated, but Jonathan Woolf’s design, which came seventh.The photograph of Caruso St John’s Nottingham Contemporary on page 12 last week should have been credited to Hélène Binet.

  • Features

    Dot to dot - 20 November 2009

    2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

    Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday 25 November for a chance to win a copy of Unbuilt Masterworks of the 21st Century, by Will Jones

  • Features

    Dot to dot results: 13 November 2009

    2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s winner was Monica Giuliani of Giuliani Architects in Henley on Thames, who identified Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasilia Cathedral

  • News

    Boris appoints Tate boss Serota to replace Rogers

    2009-11-19T18:30:00Z

    Letters reveal Rogers’ unhappiness as London mayor blocked his bid for power

  • Iain Macdonald
    News

    YRM links with US practice to go nuclear

    2009-11-19T10:23:00Z

    YRM has linked up with a larger US architect to bid for nuclear power station work.