All Building Design articles in 23 January 2009 – Page 3
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News
Maidstone urges high street ideas
The RIBA has joined Maidstone Borough Council in launching an international design competition to revitalise the town’s high street
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TechnicalGlass staircase wall
A key pioneer of the structural use of glass is structural engineer Tim Macfarlane who, in response to architect Rick Mather’s demands for a minimal structure on a conservatory in Hampstead in 1992, developed the first use of structural glass beams by laminating together three sheets of float glass.
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Opinion
Legal function
Architects are seen by many to be an expensive luxury, as well as uncommercially and untechnically minded.
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News
Fretton shortlisted for three jobs
Tony Fretton Architects is the only British firm on three shortlists for new projects in mainland Europe
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Opinion
Improve the flow
Removing the Centre Point fountains — which have always appeared a bit out of scale and out of place, forcing pedestrians to negotiate their way around them on a narrow strip of pavement — is a good idea (News January 16)
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Opinion
At first hand
Last July six London-based women architects spent 10 days on an exchange visit with women architects, engineers and planners in East Jerusalem and the West Bank
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FeaturesPortmeirion’s famous sons remembered
Actor Patrick McGoohan, who died this week, put Portmeirion, the Welsh village constructed in the Italian style by Clough Williams-Ellis, on the map
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NewsSalmon factory moves into steak-shaped home
A smoked salmon factory and restaurant designed by Kiev-based British architect Phil Hudson was officially opened last week by London mayor Boris Johnson
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NewsEva Jiricna may take on unfinished Kaplicky projects
Eva Jiricna said this week she would be willing to take on Jan Kaplicky’s unfinished Future Systems projects — including his last major work, the Budvar Concert & Congress Centre.
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OpinionLet’s rethink US embassy plans
Even with the enormity of the economic struggles that lie before him, I hope President Obama and his team can find time to address one small yet important issue: how does America project its ideals in the capital cities of the world?
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Opinion
Eastern promise
In these difficult times, a diverse set of skills is essential — a point demonstrated by Adam Woodyatt, better known as Eastenders' Ian Beale
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Building StudyWright & Wright’s RCA sculpture department refurb
Wright & Wright has imaginatively reorganised the Royal College of Art’s sculpture resource at its south London campus
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NewsTrust hits Seaton Delaval target
Campaign raises £2 million towards buying grade I listed Vanbrugh hall
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Opinion
Correction
An editing error to Gordon Murray’s letter last week suggested that James Stirling’s Andrew Melville Hall was geographically near a trio of redbrick buildings.
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NewsShortlist for Urban Splash/Muse home competition
The shortlist for Urban Splash and Muse Developments Make me a Home competition has been revealed.
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Opinion
Cold war relic
I was intrigued by the line in your review of the Tony Fretton British Embassy in Poland (Solutions January 16) suggesting the original ambassador’s residence, planned for demolition, had been saved
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OpinionCentre points
I was involved in the design of the new entrance hall and plaza for Centre Point (News January 16) while working with Gaunt Francis back in 2000-02.