All Building Design articles in 9 May 2008 – Page 3
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OpinionNo comment
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, over here to give the capital’s new mayor Boris a few tips on how to run a big city, has pulled out of the London Festival of Architecture’s big debate on the future of cities, due to take place at the Royal Festival Hall on ...
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Opinion
City slipper
BD likes to be first with the news and left RIBA presidential candidate Andrew Hanson more than a little surprised this week by revealing that Paul Davis had withdrawn from the race.
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Building StudyRogers Stirk Harbour’s Maggie’s Centre at Charing Cross Hospital is a place like home
A sense of abstract domesticity pervades the first Maggie’s Centre to be built in England — at challenging site at Charing Cross Hospital
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TechnicalThomas Fairchild Children’s Centre, east London
Haverstock Architects’ Claire Barton on designing a mixed-use children’s play and health centre with an insulating green roof
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News
Health trusts are bypassing PFI for major new projects
A healthcare procurement system which architects claim is a massive improvement on PFI is to be used for the first time on some of the largest hospital building projects in the pipeline.
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ReviewBook review: Life is in tents
Richard Weston wonders why the tents in Philip Drew’s latest book, New Tent Architecture, are such unsatifying structures
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Opinion
Book shopped
Rumours were rife last week that the RIBA’s anthology, Le Corbusier and Britain, might never appear in print after architectural publisher Merrell decided the text was “too specialist”.
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NewsPrewett Bizley scoops Sheffield Europan site
Prewett Bizley has been named as the third British winner of Europan 9, the competition for architects under 40.
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Opinion
It's a bit rich
It has long been my belief that neither I nor any other director of this practice should hold any financial equity in the business.
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OpinionHappiness is not being patronised
I have just settled down following a busy week with a glass of white wine and this week’s copy of BD (News May 2).
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Opinion
Backwards step
Gareth Hoskins’ pavilion for Scotland’s Venice Biennale (News May 2) doesn’t need to comply with any regulations but could have entered into the spirit of inclusive access.
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NewsKnight backs new process for BSF
A new procurement process for Building Schools for the Future will be rolled out before the end of the year after being approved this week by schools minister Jim Knight (pictured).
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NewsExperts back modernist extension for listed house
Wide support for intervention to 16th century building in Edinburgh
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OpinionYou can’t design away bad schools
Good school design improves results. Really? I put my money on the quality of head teachers
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OpinionIs the drive for sustainability killing architects’ creativity?
Austin Williams, author of new book The Enemies of Progress, is convinced it is, but Pooran Desai of BioRegional Quintain has plenty of examples to back his counter-argument .
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ReviewSculpture or bust for architect Celia Scott
Ken Powell on how a commission from Leon Krier sparked architect Celia Scott’s alternative career as a sculptor of her peers
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NewsThird tower design seeks approval
Developer Oakmayne Properties expects a planning decision this summer on a new 47-storey tower by Allies & Morrison in the London Borough of Southwark.
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FeaturesSunshine beats any masterplan
St James’s Park in central London is an object lesson in how to make a pitch-perfect public space
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News
WWM is Antwerp Museum finalist
Witherford Watson Mann Architects is the only UK firm among five shortlisted to design an extension for the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium.
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