All Building Design articles in 29 August 2008 – Page 4

  • Moving away from the human form: Medici Chapel, 1520-34.
    Review

    A natural progression towards architecture

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Michelangelo’s painting and sculpture provide a key to understanding his later architectural work says this new book. Tony McIntyre is impressed

  • Caltongate development - Allan Murray’s masterplan has been questioned by Unesco.
    News

    Architects hit back in Edinburgh Unesco row

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Anger as director-general calls for ongoing developments to be halted

  • Technical

    Architecture Ensemble remakes St Anne’s Garden, Soho

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Catherine Croft discovers how Architecture Ensemble turned a neglected central London churchyard into a thriving, art-filled community resource

  • Features

    Dot to Dot: August 29

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday September 3 for a chance to win a copy of The Skyscraper & the City: the Woolworth Building & the Making of Modern New York by Gail Fenske.

  • Opinion

    Trellick 2012

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Still with the Olympics, fans of postwar British housing were given a treat during the London 2012 handover film at Beijing’s closing ceremony, with the surprise appearance of Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower.

  • Opinion

    Dot to dot results: August 15

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    The winner of last issue’s competition was Malcolm Hay of Worcestershire County Council Property Services, who identified Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House in Wichita, Kansas.

  • The building abuts the terrace where Grizedale Hall once sat. The wing on the left has been give over to activity space for schools and that on the right accommodates toilets.
    Building Study

    Sutherland Hussey’s forest fruit

    2008-08-28T00:00:00Z

    The first phase of Sutherland Hussey’s masterplan for a Forestry Commission-owned site in the Lake District has produced the Yan, a handsome community and education centre, writes Ellis WoodmanPhotos by Morley von Sternberg

  • News

    Beijing Olympics used to promote UK architects

    2008-08-28T00:00:00Z

    British architects’ hopes of landing work abroad have received a huge boost thanks to intensive lobbying during the Beijing Olympics by the RIBA and trade minister Digby Jones, it has emerged.

  • Dennis Sharp
    Opinion

    Should Saarinen’s American Embassy building be listed?

    2008-08-28T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Docomomo’s Dennis Sharp, it’s well scaled and well weathered; no, says Westminster’s Robert Davis, it’s a mess inside, mediocre on the outside, and not historically important

  • News

    Boots - 29th August

    2008-08-28T00:00:00Z

  • Norman Foster
    News

    Profile: Norman Foster

    2008-01-01T13:05:00Z

    Foster & Partners, which celebrated four decades in practice in 2008, continually tops lists of the world’s most admired architectural firms. Here, Norman Foster talks about success, growth and that deal with 3i