All Building Design articles in 23 October 2009 – Page 3

  • De La Warr Pavilion designed by Mendelsohn and Chermayeff.
    Review

    History of RIBA in eight chapters

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Curator Alan Powers takes a celebratory tour round 175 years of thought-provoking design

  • Opinion

    Cockerell & bull

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    In the final episode of Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour, earlier this month on Channel 4, I was distressed to hear McCloud attribute the design of St George’s Hall, in Liverpool, to Charles R Cockerell

  • Opinion

    Bright new talent from tough times

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    The downturn is shaking up the natural order to architecture’s benefit

  • Thick grey curtains have been used to divide the show into rooms.
    Review

    Thomas Demand’s images at the Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Demand exhibition captures key moments in post-war German history

  • Opinion

    Berlin boost

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    I was passing through Berlin last week with three hours to spare and walked over to see the Neues Museum.

  • Opinion

    Biting back

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    In Andrew Mead’s rather sour review of my new book, The Freedoms of Suburbia (Culture October 2), he seems to be still brooding — 40 years on — about the anarcho-libertarian Non-Plan special issue of New Society magazine, which I wrote with Reyner Banham, Peter Hall and Cedric Price in ...

  • Opinion

    We all need more play time

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    This government edict is indicative of the way Britain is doing its best to undermine its long-term future — and its architecture

  • Opinion

    Alive and well

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Please apprise Jonathan Glancey (October 16) of the fact that Civic Trust Awards are still going ahead and that there are a lot more this year

  • Arb: eating on the job.
    Opinion

    Stirling after-party aftershocks

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    A surreptitious flick of the wrist and Boots found herself with a Stirling Prize after-party ticket, which turned out to be in a Corney & Barrow basement wine bar

  • Polycarbonate cladding covers the east elevation.
    Technical

    Aberdeen’s winning formula

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    A vast steel structure and ethereal polycarbonate cladding make Reiach & Hall’s new athletics and fitness complex a sporting contender

  • Features

    Dot to Dot: 23 October 2009

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday October 28 for a chance to win a copy of The Pavilion: Pleasure and Polemics in Architecture, edited by Peter Cachola Schmal.

  • News

    Letters to the editor - 23 October 2009

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Letters to the editor - 23 October 2009

  • Features

    Dot to dot results: October 16

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s winner was Kellie Finnegan of McGurk Architects in Belfast, who identified Le Corbusier’s chapel at Ronchamp

  • The US Embassy in Grosvenor Square
    News

    Hodge lists Saarinen's American Embassy

    2009-10-22T09:36:00Z

    But minister signals that only ‘fit for purpose’ 20th century buildings should be protected

  • Tony Fretton meets former Polish President Lech Walesa at the opening of the new embassy
    News

    Fretton's Warsaw Embassy budget revealed as £27 million

    2009-10-22T09:36:00Z

    The budget for Stirling nominee Tony Fretton’s Warsaw Embassy building, opened last Friday by former Polish President Lech Walesa, has been revealed as £27 million.The embassy opened in the same week that BD revealed that the Foreign Office was on the verge of a cost-cutting drive which could spell an ...

  • Marks Barfield Architects' £13 million Cambridge mosque
    News

    Marks Barfield aims for 'gentle landmark' mosque

    2009-10-22T09:29:00Z

    Marks Barfield is to design a £13 million mosque on a 0.4ha brownfield site in Cambridge.

  • KPF's Pinnacle skyscraper
    News

    Pinnacle to stick with KPF

    2009-10-22T09:24:00Z

    The team behind the City of London’s Pinnacle skyscraper has revealed it is sticking with original architect Kohn Pedersen Fox rather than switching to breakaway practice PLP.

  • Project Orange's extension to the Moran Hotel in Chiswick
    News

    Project Orange hotel approved

    2009-10-22T09:17:00Z

    Project Orange’s extension to the Moran Hotel in Chiswick, west London, has been given planning permission after a public inquiry in the summer.

  • Tony Fretton's Warsaw Embassy
    Building Study

    First review: Tony Fretton's Warsaw British Embassy

    2009-10-21T09:40:00Z

    Tony Fretton’s new British Embassy in Warsaw, revised to take into account increased security concerns, is a declaration of what an early 21st century embassy can be, reports Ellis Woodman