All Building Design articles in 29 July 2005 – Page 2

  • News

    Growing down the local

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Worn-out workers were able to escape the city blues this week, thanks to the efforts of the Office for Subversive Architecture, which created the Hoegaarden Urban Oasis at Broadgate Circus in London.

  • Buckminster Fuller in 1981 with his 8m-high Fly’s Eye dome and 1934 Dymaxion car, in Snowmass, Colorado.
    Review

    No place like a geodesic dome

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Buckminster Fuller combined bourgeois attitudes with glimmers of great wisdom.

  • Opinion

    A lot to learn from embracing diversity

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Since the July 7 tragedy, there has been much discussion about what makes London, my city, great. Architects need to be a part of that conversation, not just by studying the physical context of our environment, but by delving into the social context, too. This is not about understanding architecture, ...

  • Work by Peter Salter’s intermediate unit 1 which looked at the change in climate.
    Review

    Reined in by a lack of direction

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    The AA’s show suggests it has failed to play to its strengths.

  • News

    Dilapidated listed gems threatened

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    New English Heritage guidelines could deny many historic buildings listing protection if they are in poor condition, and give greater authority to calls for some buildings to be delisted, leading conservationists fear.

  • 1. Scottish Parliament: 5-1
    News

    Darkhorse Holyrood deserves the nod

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Courage and invention must give Miralles’s swansong the edge in the Stirling race over Bennetts PFI route

  • Opinion

    Out of control?

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest about the Bridge Academy (News July 15). It raised some fundamental issues: how do you teach multiple classes in an open-plan environment? How do you control multiple groups of pupils externally on the “terraces”? And if spaces are deemed as breakout zones attributed to each faculty, ...

  • Opinion

    Cold discomfort

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    I was saddened to read of Hopkins Architects’ reaction to our success in the British Antarctic Survey competition (News July 22). A review of the assessors’ report shows that our design won on both architectural and technical merit. The fact that we were the closest competitor to the budget, I ...

  • News

    Tricorn replacement ugly and clumsy

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Proposals for a £300 million development by architect Chapman Taylor in Portsmouth have been slammed by the local civic society and a former architect at Hampshire County Council.

  • News

    Cutty Sark centre hits the rocks

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    EH slams Grimshaw’s ‘glass wave’

  • Opinion

    A lost cause

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Tessa Jowell’s refusal to delist the Commonwealth Institute building brings to the forefront the subject of the preservation of similar buildings representative of the considerable intellectual achievements of post-war construction.Tightly designed to a very specific brief and lightly constructed within a ridiculously low budget, the building has proved a commercial ...

  • News

    Terror jinx as practice caught up in three incidents

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Three Shepheard Epstein Hunter staff members were caught up in last week’s terror activity in London, just two weeks after practice architect Renato Pimenta witnessed the bus blast in Tavistock Square.

  • The housing scheme will feature high levels of insulation and well-positioned windows to reduce energy consumption.
    Building Study

    First Look: Modernism captures the castle

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    A striking residential development surrounding a turn-of-the-century castle in Swansea has been revealed by Holder Mathias Architects.

  • Looking across the entrance court of the hotel to the three stand-alone dining rooms.
    Building Study

    Holiday campo

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    With a strong list of celebrated architects signed up, the Corte Velho holiday development in the Algarve is breaking the mould of Portugal’s conventional resorts.

  • Donald Richter’s geodesic dome at the South Pole is set to be replaced.
    News

    Time called on Fuller-inspired South Pole dome

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    A geodesic dome on the South Pole built by one of Buckminster Fuller’s students is to be demolished to make way for a new US research facility.

  • News

    Bristol fashion

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Lab Architecture Studio has unveiled the first image of its £15 million proposed Museum of Bristol.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    FAB to the rescueLast week Boots speculated that Hopkins’ design for a new research station at the South Pole may have been inspired by the At-At Walkers of the Star Wars films. Now we can reveal Hugh Broughton’s competition-winning scheme was inspired by a more home-grown science-fiction machine: Thunderbird II, ...

  • News

    ‘Sickening blow’ to Stonehenge plan

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Visitor centre hit by planning refusal and road u-turn

  • News

    Bennetts library is Stirling favourite

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Bennetts Associates’ Brighton library is the bookies’ favourite to win this year’s coveted Stirling Prize, but architects contacted by BD this week were rooting for Zaha Hadid.

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    Features

    Architest

    2005-07-29T00:00:00Z

    This week: Antoni Gaudí