All Archive Titles articles – Page 10
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Archive TitlesSociety rediscovered
It has taken 20 years for British architecture to re-engage with society and context. We’re getting there.
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Archive TitlesDoing the rounds
Birmingham’s landmark 18-storey Rotunda was built in 1965 as offices, but its architect James Roberts lived on the top floor.
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Tales from the sandpit
This year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Lego brick and we invite readers of the RIBA Journal to help us.
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Archive TitlesWhich side are you on?
Today’s buildings have all the hallmarks of being designed by a profession happier to serve its paymasters than the environment or the public
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Archive TitlesTimber!
The Wood Awards, now in their fifth year, boast an impressive roll-call of previous winners including Feilden Clegg Bradley, Gareth Hoskins and Simon Conder.
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Estuary is the answer
Hugh Pearman’s March leader ended with the suggestion that the RIBA should ‘campaign for a super-efficient London airport built on reclaimed land east of the Thames Estuary’.
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Archive TitlesZoom in zoom out by ‘Avatar’
Office websites? I’d be lying if I said there was a world of fantastic offerings out there pertaining to the workplace.
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Memories of Ayyub
I was shocked to read of Ayyub Malik’s death in the last issue and felt I had to add a little bit to Nigel Woolner’s obituary.
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Archive TitlesPhilanthropy begins at home
Pittencrief Park in Dunfermline has a new resident: Britain’s Carnegie Trusts have been housed together for the first time under one light-filled, sweeping roof. By Ian Wall
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Somerset House was the first purpose-built office for civil servants in the UK. So what’s it like as a workplace today, Hugh Pearman asks Alan Robson, surveyor to the fabric.
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Archive TitlesLetter from... a cafe near you
After spending the morning working on this office-themed issue, RIBAJ’s art editor Mark Bergin pops out for a coffee – and suddenly realises he’s taken the office with him.
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Archive TitlesMission critical
As part of its drive to create optimal conditions for the practice of the best architecture, the RIBA has very significantly stepped up its efforts to influence government policy and legislation, acting as a ‘critical friend’.
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Still at your desk?
Forget the gimmicks – we won’t truly change the workplace without a fundamental cultural shift
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Archive TitlesA little local difficulty
This detailed, post-colonial appraisal of post-war architecture misses the bigger globalisation picture
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It’s a dragon, stupid
Less than 10 years ago, you were greeted at Beijing International Airport (First glance, RIBAJ March 08) by incense burners, squat WCs and peeling paint..
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Archive TitlesFight for the light
Century-old principles still guide decisions on daylight levels, but recent legal cases have made matters more complicated – and potentially costlier for developers.
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TWA needs a future
It is essential that an economic, airport-related function should be considered for the TWA Building (RIBAJ March 08), to secure its long-term future.
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Archive TitlesGap in the market
Has the iconic office block had its day? Bennetts Associates’ latest City development re-embraces old London’s complex urban grain, and it’s not alone.
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Mick Jagger’s genes
I fully endorse Brian Loudon’s support for Soldier Reading a Letter on Platform 1 at Paddington (RIBAJ Mar 08).