All Building Design articles in 22 May 2009 – Page 3

  • Opinion

    Seeking out real tsar quality

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Would an architecture Tsar be any better than an architecture minister?

  • Opinion

    Same old story

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    One despairs of the architectural profession scrambling to hear Prince Charles lecture them on design fundamentals that any first-year student should know

  • Opinion

    Modest proposal

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Decapitation seems a little harsh (Boots May 15). My actual words after Prince Charles’s speech were “Abolish the monarchy”, not “down with the monarchy”, but nevertheless, quite a reasonable demand I think

  • Opinion

    There is no time to experiment

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Simply on the grounds that we often can’t do it justice nowadays, I’m not a fan of the sort of work which is done by the Adams and the Terrys of this world, and mostly believe that we have to find modern ways of applying the lessons of the past

  • The dining room: classic and elegant
    Technical

    Classic dining at the Whitechapel Gallery

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Project Orange’s Whitechapel Dining Room makes the newly refurbished gallery’s gastronomic experience as satisfying as its cultural one

  • John Winter
    Features

    Winter takes the chair

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    The 1984 architectural mastermind final recalled

  • Opinion

    Cabe delivers

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Last week saw two very important successes for Cabe

  • Shapps: squeaky clean
    Opinion

    Over his head: Boris and the Olympic stadium

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Once again London mayor Boris Johnson has shown his lack of awareness of developments on the 2012 site

  • Opinion

    Body of evidence

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Here’s an idea: if culture secretary Burnham says Cabe is to be tasked with setting minimum standards for government building projects, it could form a body to set out standard specifications, contract documentation and design parameters, and it could have a name something like, oh, I don’t know, Property Services ...

  • The Brandhorst Museum
    Building Study

    Artful arrangements at Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Though Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum — the latest addition to Munich’s emerging Museum Quarter — suffers from poor masterplanning, as a modern art gallery it is very successful

  • Etching of the Forum, drawn in 1583, by Vincenzo Scamozzi.
    Review

    Spare us the archaeologists

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Peter Carl considers a claim that the Roman Forum site has been torn apart in the name of research

  • Peter Zumthor sketching his Secular Retreat.
    Building Study

    Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project is creating architecturally interesting buildings for short-term lets

  • Jenkins’ article, which appeared in last Friday’s Guardian.
    Opinion

    Was Simon Jenkins right to speak out against architects?

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Ali Sagarchi, modernists should be taken to task for being undemocratic; while Sean Griffiths argues that it is a trivial debate about style which detracts from more important issues

  • News

    Letters to the editor: 22 May 2009

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

  • Dot to dot results: May 15
    Opinion

    Dot to dot results: May 15

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    The winner of last week’s competition was Neil Morgan of John Guest Ltd in West Drayton, who identified Edwin Lutyens’ Deanery Gardens at Sonning

  • Dot to dot: 22 May 09
    Features

    Dot to dot: 22 May 09

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday, May 27 2009 for a chance to win a copy of Designing Modern Germany by Jeremy Aynsley