All Building Design articles in 25 July 2008 – Page 3
-
News
Most BSF designs ‘not good enough’
Cabe has found 80% of schemes reviewed by its schools design review panel were “mediocre” or “not yet good enough”.
-
Opinion
Brutal truth
Lurking beneath Celia Clarke’s plea to reuse buildings (Letters July 18) was yet another cry for more respect for sixties buildings by exponents such as Gillespie Kidd & Coia, Owen Luder, Chalk Herron and others whose raw concrete aesthetic set up a public distaste for we architects.
-
Opinion
Broken greens
While it is encouraging to see the industry delivering more sustainable buildings, confusion exists over how green building credentials are rated.
-
NewsPublic rally to best-ever festival
The London Festival of Architecture busted its own budgeted visitor numbers by attracting 250,000 people, compared to the 140,000 it expected, festival director Peter Murray revealed this week.
-
NewsPractice grows its own benefits
David Morley Architects has installed an experimental green wall project in its office courtyard.
-
ReviewIsamu Noguchi’s lightness of being
Tony McIntyre revels in this outstanding exhibition of sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi’s pioneering and influential work
-
NewsBristol wildlife park plan gets right back to nature
White Design, Kay Elliott Architects and Quattro Design have unveiled £70 million plans for a new wildlife conservation park outside Bristol.
-
FeaturesNon-transferable art appreciation
How can Margaret Hodge be so sensitive about music and so crass about architecture, wonders Jonathan Glancey
-
News
Housing scheme wins on appeal
Stephen Davy Peter Smith Architects has won a planning appeal for a residential scheme on a derelict brownfield site in Aylesbury.
-
NewsSoane launches restoration appeal
One of Britain’s quirkiest museums, Sir John Soane’s Museum, is appealing for benefactors to contribute to an ambitious £6.3 million restoration project.
-
News
Listing bid threatens Waterloo ambitions
Argument brews over architectural merits of London station
-
NewsCalling all carbuncles
This year’s award for the most hideous buildings in the country — the Carbuncle Cup — is now calling for entries.
-
NewsGallery adds a flourish
Pringle Richard Sharratt’s extension to the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry creates a new entrance to the 1960 museum on the elevation facing the city’s cathedral and university square — and also improves the building’s accessibility and legibility.
-
FeaturesDot to Dot: July 25
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday July 30 for a chance to win Instant Cities by Herbert Wright.
-
NewsFeng shui design for K2 hotel
Many hotels around the world offer spectacular mountain views, but few can rival those offered by Colman Architects’ newest project, a five-star hotel at the base of K2, the world’s second highest mountain.
-
FeaturesDot to dot results: July 18
Last week’s competition winner is Michael Atkinson of Purves Ash in Newcastle, who identified Berthold Lubetkin’s Penguin Pool at London Zoo.
-
Building StudyLong live Lubetkin’s republic
Tecton’s Spa Green Estate, a legacy of 1930s radical housing policy in north London, has been sensitively restored to pay homage to its original ambitions, reports James R Payne
-
TechnicalFresh Flower pavilion
Architect: Tonkin LiuClient: Corus and the London Festival of ArchitectureLocations: Greenwich Peninsula, Bedford Square, Prince’s Gardens and St Paul’s
-
TechnicalMetal guru: Arup’s Chris Caroll on CCTV Headquarters, Beijing
Will Hunter discovers how OMA and Arup used metal structures in the astonishing design for the CCTV HQ in Beijing
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Page3
- Next Page