All Building Design articles in 26 June 2009 – Page 3
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OpinionJudge not lest you be judged, learns Sharp
It wasn’t just the British establishment who didn’t make the opening of Bernard Tschumi’s New Acropolis Museum in Athens last weekend.
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Opinion
It’s an imposition
The first two objections to the Rogers Stirk Harbour scheme put forward by the Chelsea Barracks Action Group are that the scheme is too high and too dense
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ReviewNew HQ, old foundation
Does a new home mark the end of a period of instability for the Architecture Foundation
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Building StudyFog on the Tyne
Successive waves of regeneration have landed Newcastle and Gateshead with a riot of architectural statements — yet an urban spirit born in the 19th century lives on
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OpinionDoes the disabled lobby have too great a say in planning?
Yes, the ‘shouting down’ brigade can be harmful, says Simon Allford; no, everyone is entitled to be safe in public, argues Steve Winyard
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OpinionA deficiency of democracy
I disagree strongly with your Leader (June 19). Surely the Qataris bought the Chelsea Barracks site first, with a view to obtaining a planning permission, and then second making a lot of money selling off their prestigious apartments.
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Opinion
Dead on the slab
Amidst the burgeoning hubris of an architect spurned, your leader was most welcome, pointing out that the Chelsea Barracks scheme was probably heading for rejection by due democratic process
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OpinionDon’t let them nail Crossrail
The chairman of London’s new rail line needs to realise that design is not just an expensive add-on
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FeaturesThrough the glass ceiling
Brian Clarke has regularly graced BD’s pages — most recently as the chairman of the Architecture Foundation
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OpinionDon’t Bury it yet
Having seen Studio MGM’s timber-framed and clad apartments rise from a particularly drab corner of the Bury St Edmunds ring road over the past couple of years, I was aghast at John Henry Kneller Eborn’s prejudiced and ill-informed letter (June 19)
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OpinionCan Britain grin and share it?
One of the reasons I so respect Frank Pick (1878-1941), the legendary chief executive of the London Passenger Transport Board, is that he made common places shine.
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OpinionBerlusconi’s historical precedents
Bare breasts and buttocks are par for the course at any Roman leader’s retreat
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Opinion
Barrier grief
While I think that shared spaces offer an improvement on the cluttered streets we tolerate, the thought that they exclude blind and partially sighted people makes me uneasy
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Opinion
Bad education
Tim Ward’s letter (June 19) raised only one aspect of the architectural students’ woes. The other is that they leave their schools with a woefully inadequate education
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News
Heritage award for Gaunt Francis
The team behind the revamp of a City of London building designed by Edwin Lutyens has won a City Heritage Award
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TechnicalConcrete proves crucial to Mather’s Ashmolean redevelopment
Rick Mather Architects has doubled the display area at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology with a 10,000sq m extension tucked behind the existing 1845 building
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ReviewReyes and Cruz put ethics above architecture
Design is incidental in the socially responsible work shown by architect Teddy Cruz and artist Pedro Reyes at their Architecture Foundation lecture
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FeaturesDot to dot: 26 June 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday July 01 for a chance to win a copy of Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity and Geopolitics, by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
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