All Building Design articles in 24 April 2009 – Page 3
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NewsImpromptu Arquitectos wins Make Me a Home competition
Portuguese practice Impromptu Arquitectos and British partner Sergison Bates have won the Urban Splash and Muse Developments' Make Me a Home competition for the Northshore site in Stockton-on-Tees
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NewsMakespace to make-over terrace in Mosque integration scheme
Makespace Architects has won planning permission from Tower Hamlets Council for a £600,000 mosque scheme within the Hackney Road conservation area in east London
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News
Budget gives £600m boost to slump-hit housing sector
Homes & Communities Agency to bail out struggling schemes after chancellor’s windfall
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NewsFirm marks colleague’s death with ‘ghost bike’
The colleagues of an architectural assistant killed by a lorry at a notorious central London junction paid an emotional tribute to her this week by placing a “ghost bike” at the scene of her death
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Opinion
Prince of peeves
Whatever the rather hysterical Charles Thompson (Letters April 17) may think of the Prince of Wales, the fact is that he speaks out for many people who are less than enchanted by so much of the output of some — not all — British architects in recent years
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OpinionStill out of touch
In 1989, RIBA president Maxwell Hutchinson wanted to get rid of the Arcuk
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Opinion
Turning nasty
I am indebted to Robert Menzies (Letters April 17) for bringing it to my attention that in the 25 years or so that I have been visiting and writing about buildings, it has never before occurred to me to predicate a review on the turning circle within a project’s disabled ...
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ReviewPowell & Moya, masters of public service
The career of British architectural practice Powell & Moya had a strong ethical basis
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FeaturesHolidays in the sun at Skegness
One of Billy Butlin’s first holiday camps opened in 1936 on the north-west coast at Skegness, a chance for British holidaymakers to enjoy the delights of the seaside with modern comforts. BD was on the scene when this chalet was listed in May 1987
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ReviewPark Hill’s troubled transformation
This gripping BBC television documentary charting English Heritage’s reluctant rescue of Europe’s largest listed building, Sheffield’s Park Hill, screens on May 1
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Opinion
Equality first
The RIBA president is being both politically correct and defeatist to suggest that any move to acquire protection of function for the profession would be going against the tide
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OpinionWhere is the democracy?
The big hitters have rallied to Rogers’ side, but their unquestioning support for the planning system is naïve
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Opinion
Function defence
Work to gas fittings requires protection of function to prevent people blowing themselves and their possessions to kingdom come
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OpinionConservation competence
I think you have identified the nub of the problem with the building conservation register (Leader April 9). Two skills are involved — the technical (vocational/craft) and the strategic (academic/ professional), and these run on different tracks
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TechnicalZed Factory’s Pipe Dream and Cox Bulleid’s Prototype Green Terrace
Two timely projects tackle the critical issues of how best to build sustainable housing — and how to cut its cost
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Opinion
The big picture
I thoroughly enjoyed Carolyn Steel’s piece (Opinion April 9) concerning the ridiculous stance which we in the west continue to promote as the only way forward for the world, that is, constant economic growth combined with constant population growth (for economic reasons, of course)
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OpinionIs Rogers’ plan for Chelsea Barracks good urbanism?
Yes, says MJ Long, it’s an integrated scheme that has rhythm and style; no, says Alan Baxter, its public realm content is insufficient and it destroys the existing street pattern
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OpinionChelsea Barracks row picked up stateside
Time magazine’s take on the royal row, plus Learning from Bob and Denise, Robin Hood Gardens, love and hate with Valerio Olgiati
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OpinionSage of Shepperton slips away
JG Ballard, who died earlier this week, took on modern architecture in his stories more than once — and the power of his work was such that his fictions have become our reality
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