All Building Design articles in 28 May 2010 – Page 2

  • Fretton’s building, near Amsterdam’s Vondel Park, is comprised of two blocks divided in the middle by a central courtyard.
    Technical

    Constantijn Huygensstraat by Tony Fretton Architects

    2010-05-28T02:00:00Z

    The robust brick facade of Tony Fretton’s Amsterdam block is designed to last the building’s planned 200-year lifespan

  • Squire & Partners’  two-tower proposal
    News

    Vauxhall towers reborn

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Designs for two £170 million towers on a vacant site beside Vauxhall roundabout in London have been unveiled by Squire & Partners, which hopes to submit a planning application this summer

  • News

    Redcar plans ‘vertical pier’ for seafront revival

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    A “vertical pier” and creative centre are the highlights of a proposed £30 million revamp of the seafront at Redcar in north-east England

  • Opinion

    Time to move on

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    While it is difficult to commend the lack of masterplanning of Surrey Quays in the 1980s, I find Owen Hatherley’s political rant about the Conservatives (Opinion May 21) a reactionary jab following, presumably, an election result that he finds difficult to stomach

  • Opinion

    Members only

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Owen Luder says it appears RIBA staff have been taking sides in a dispute between elected officers

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    See Venice Little-Britain style

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Shades of Vicky Pollard dominate the Venice Architecture Biennale

  • News

    ‘Super-hub’ initiative scrapped

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    London mayor Boris Johnson has shelved plans for suburban “super-hubs” in the outer London boroughs.

  • Ed Hollis cut ready
    Opinion

    Things look set to get grim up north

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    This year’s RSA exhibition points to a crisis of confidence among Scottish architects

  • Opinion

    No pain, no gain

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Many years ago, architectural draughtsmen – who were doing the architect’s work for him, and felt they were in fact propping him up on the technical side – got the hump.

  • Intensity of control: Lambri’s photograph taken out of John Lautner’s Sheats-Goldstein House.
    Review

    Luisa Lambri exhibition

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Italian photographer Lambri’s latest exhibition at the Thomas Dane Gallery provides a fresh slant on modernist architecture classics

  • The $40,000 project in Guanacaste
    News

    Dreams take root

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    An architect for Rogers Stirk Harbour has built a bamboo house for his mother

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    News

    This week's ups & downs

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Hot and not

  • Homes and Communities Agency
    Opinion

    Name games at the DCMS

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Boots was surprised to see the Guardian unilaterally rechristen the Department of Culture Media & Sport the DCOMS, to take account of Jeremy Hunt’s Olympic responsibilities

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    In our report on the RIBA Awards (News May 21), Walter Hall Primary School should have been credited to Architecture MK, Milton Keynes Council.

  • Lifschutz Davidson's Coin Street development
    News

    Coin Street challenge quashed

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    A legal challenge to Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ Coin Street development in central London has been thrown out by the Court of Appeal.

  • The new development stands opposite St Giles  in the Fields and addresses Centre Point to the right.
    Building Study

    Central St Giles by Renzo Piano

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    In this archive Building Study from 2010, Ellis Woodman pulls no punches in his assessment of Google’s $1bn trophy

  • Ushida Findlay partner, Kathryn Findlay, is shown here in the process of constructing a model of a villa, prior to its presentation in the British Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Biennale.
    Features

    A house built on sand

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Kathryn Findlay presents the luxury Doha villa that never was

  • News

    Broadway Malyan proposal

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    A major Broadway Malyan mixed-use scheme near London’s Tower Bridge will be submitted to Tower Hamlets Council for planning next month

  • Opinion

    Beware of cads

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest the debate about sketching versus computer-generated images (Debate May 21).

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    Review

    Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture

    2010-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Deyan Sudjic’s clichéd and unexciting authorised biography of Norman Foster leaves no stone turned.