All Building Design articles in 25 July 2008 – Page 2
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Opinion
Unkind words
Further to your leader (July 18) on RMJM’s £1 million support package to encourage more youngsters from black and ethnic minorities into architecture, the statistic that only 2% of practising architects in Britain are non-white is a shocking indictment of our industry and possibly makes it the last bastion of ...
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Opinion
Spitting shame
The British summer put paid to the al fresco supper planned for the opening of Gehry’s pavilion at the Serpentine last week.
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Opinion
Party politics
Boots is putting on her dancing shoes next Saturday and heading for Birmingham’s Botanical Gardens to join staff and students, past and present, from the city’s architecture school in celebrating its centenary year
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OpinionOut on the town
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has been asked to advise on the design of an eco-town near Nottingham, but is chief exec Hank Dittmar fully on-message?
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OpinionWhy nothing’s as simple as it seems
What do the US gun lobby and Buckminster Fuller have in common?
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Opinion
Marathon man
The Victorian Society hopes to make a splash with its campaign to highlight the remaining 13 working and listed Victorian and Edwardian swimming pools in England.
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News
North-west takes most honours
Winners of this year’s Green Flag Awards have been announced, with 743 green spaces across the UK being recognised for achieving the national quality standard.
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OpinionDid the festival miss a trick?
This year’s London Festival of Architecture was great fun and a huge achievement, but it could have had a clearer message
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News
Flint responds eight months later
Housing minister Caroline Flint has responded to the Callcutt Review, eight months after it recommended a significant expansion of national design reviews.
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Opinion
Cunning plan
In the light of the RIBA report on planning, is it time to run a regular feature on planning nightmares — nominate your worst local planning authority and so on.
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OpinionIdentity crisis
Jacques Herzog may be one of the world’s most famous architects, but Tate Modern press officers are struggling to recognise him.
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ReviewLe Corbusier Le Grand: well on the road to excess
Catherine Croft reviews Phaidon’s massive — 9kg — offering, Le Corbusier Le Grand
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NewsKeeping in context
Sheffield architect Race Cottam Associates has completed the latest phase of plans to build new teaching facilities for Sheffield Hallam University behind a row of Victorian villas.
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Opinion
Concrete division
Anne Power (Opinion July 4) gives a clear, intelligent summary of the issues surrounding post-war public housing — thought-provoking and so relevant!
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FeaturesCommunal living gives way to en suite
Aston University’s 1971 high-rise student bedsits, which are shortly to be demolished
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News
Crunch scales down Jewish centre plans
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has been forced to scale back its designs for a flagship home for London’s Jewish Community Centre amid fundraising fears.
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OpinionDo we care who wins this year’s Stirling Prize?
Of course, it’s important, says double winner and Wilkinson Eyre director Chris Wilkinson, but Mantownhuman’s Alistair Donald laments the conformism the prize represents
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OpinionSkills for BSF schools are here
“Architects blamed for unsustainable schools” shouts your headline (News July 18)
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