All Building Design articles in 31 August 2007 – Page 5
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FeaturesArchitects for Aid launches £50+ Club
Join charity Architect for Aid's £50+ Club and help support its vital humanitarian work around the world
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ReviewRelax. Interiors for Human Wellness. Foreword by Karim Rashid
The book covers Spas and Thermal Baths, Massage and beauty salons, Health farms and Gyms, Thirty two projects by well known architects, including Karim Rashid, Steven Holl and Jun Aoki.
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ReviewContemporary World Interiors By Susan Yelavich
Comprehensive global survey examines the most important interior architecture and design projects of the last 25 years, includes 450 specific projects and 1,000 colour photographs.
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AnalysisDid the captain go down a storm?
As Jack Pringle prepares to hand over the helm at the RIBA, Will Hurst asks friends, foes and colleagues if his presidency was plain sailing or a voyage through choppy waters
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ReviewBuilding London. The Making of a Modern Metropolis By Bruce Marshall
Illustrated study of London’s architectural history and development. Remarkable photography and informative text. Foreword by Ptolemy Dean
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ReviewCOOP HIMMELB(L)AU: BMW Welt Munich by Kristin Feireiss.
A tour of one of the world’s most talked about buildings along with an interview by Wolf Prix.
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ReviewThe G-Plan Revolution By Basil Hyman and Steven Braggs
This book tells the story of G Plan’s beginnings from the 1950’s and how it influence impelled the British furniture industry to innovate and experiment.
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ReviewNext Wave. Emerging Talents in Australian Architecture By Davina Jackson
An exciting overview of contemporary Australian Architecture. Profiles sixteen of Australia’s top architects presenting some 60 projects in total.
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ReviewArchitectural Voices : Listening to Old Buildings By David Littlefield and Saskia Lewis
The authors’ accounts of more than 20 historic buildings and their interviews with the people responsible for renewing them. By focusing on elderly structures that are the subject of reinvention, this book examines how the buildings guide architects and artists and argues that buildings have voices and it is worth ...
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ReviewTraditional Buildings By Allen Noble
A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions. A tour of traditional building around the world which includes the loess cave homes of central China, stilt houses on the shores of Dahomey and much more.
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ReviewModern.The Modern Movement in Britain By Alan Powers
Now out in paperback this books with Photography by Morley Von Sternberg brings together the largest photographic collection ever published in one volume of buildings that constitute the British Modern Movement in the years 1930-1939.
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ReviewCorrugated Iron. Building on the Frontier by Adam Mornement & Simon Holloway
Long and fascinating history of ‘indented or corrugated metallic sheets’, the first patent was granted in 1829.The first Word War brought the Nissen hut, perhaps the most iconic of all corrugated iron buildings and today it has proved invaluable in disaster relief.
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ReviewFoster 40 Norman Foster. Edited by David Jenkins.
Two volume set, 40 years, 40 projects and 40 themes central to the success of Foster & Partners.
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ReviewBuilding a New Europe: Portraits of Modern Architects Essays by George Nelson, 1935 -1936
Presents this important collection of writings together for the first time. The subjects of Nelson’s essays include Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius as well as more minor architects all who would soon be affected by World War 11 in some way.
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OpinionDoes Coin Street's tower compromise its principles?
A complete lack of affordable housing makes this tower a liability to the area, argues Michael Ball; while Iain Tuckett says it is the only way to provide the community with a much-wanted swimming pool
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NewsCoin Street wins approval for 43-storey tower
Lifschutz Davidson Sandiland’s controversial Doon Street tower on London’s Southbank was narrowly approved by Lambeth council last night.Planning approval for the 43-storey tower and swimming pool complex for Coin Street Community Builders was passed by two votes to one, despite opposition from English Heritage and former colleagues of National Theatre ...
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Opinion
Comment of the day: RIBA the watchdog
Is the RIBA right to set up a design review panel? You bet, says Lee Mallett
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