All Archive Titles articles – Page 12
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Archive TitlesWell met by moonlight
The £5M Aluna Clock proposed for a site opposite the O2 Arena in London’s Docklands is a step closer to realisation with the promise last month of funding for the development of artist Laura Williams’ idea.
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Hood have thought it
Britain’s newest airport is due for a big expansion under a masterplan to be announced shortly.
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Growing pains
Simon Cooper’s ‘Letter from…Mossbourne Community Academy’ last month makes some very positive observations about the design of the school.
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Archive TitlesMeet and greet
The colossal task of designing Heathrow’s Terminal 5 spawned a collaboration that has set a new direction for BAA routing and signage.
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Archive TitlesGo jumbo
Speak no more of city airports but of airport cities, so huge have these transport hubs become. But how should architects approach these new urban forms?
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Give us a thrill
Air travel might regain some of its lost glamour if its terminals showed a little more design nerve.
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Focus on Liverpool
I was interested in the Liverpool coverage in your December edition.
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Archive TitlesFifth dimension
Heathrow Terminal 5, which opens this month, looks conventional in plan but its section tells a different story. Rogers Stirk Harbour had to stack things up, and down, to squeeze it all in.
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Archive TitlesWings of desire
Meinhard von Gerkan deplores the reduction of airport terminals to retail sheds. But, he warns, architects have a social responsibility not to disengage from the genre.
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Archive TitlesChina goes to town
An exhibition of Chinese design at the V&A shows a country barely able to contain its creative energies.
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Cathedral counterpoint
The painting panorama Liverpool Cityscape (RIBAJ Dec 07) is dominated by the red sandstone mass of Giles Gilbert Scott’s Anglican cathedral.
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Archive TitlesCampaigning on public procurement
Public procurement of design and construction is dogged today by wasteful selection processes, dubious design quality, and barriers to small and medium scale enterprises.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Waitrose thinks a nice cuppa and a biscuit would improve the airport experience for UK arrivals. MD Mark Price talks tea ladies with Jan-Carlos Kucharek
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Archive TitlesNow boarding
In 1955 Yorke Rosenberg & Mardall was appointed to design an extension to Gatwick Airport to ease congestion at Heathrow, the first permanent buildings for which had been commissioned from Frederick Gibberd only five years previously.
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Archive TitlesWho is... Ton Bijlaart?
Part of the team at Dutch-based Vanderlande Industries, that’s who. And if you don’t know Vanderlande Industries, then you know nothing about baggage handling.
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Archive TitlesTriumph of the big shed
Critic Martin Pawley celebrates the big shed, and Stansted Airport terminal (above) in particular, in this edited 1991 extract from a new book of his collected writings.
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Archive TitlesZoom in zoom out by ‘Avatar’
Jet around the world without increasing your carbon footprint – let your mouse do the travelling. Avatar turns aviator: fly with me to the hanging gardens of Singapore’s Changi Airport .
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Archive TitlesAmerlcan idol
Saarinen’s 60s stunner, the TWA building, is being dug out of mothballs to act as gateway to Gensler’s terminal for US airline JetBlue.
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Airports
Should architects design airports? There have been calls for the profession to boycott this building type. And when the RIBA committed itself to reducing carbon emissions in the very same year it awarded the Stirling Prize to the new Madrid Airport terminal by Richard Rogers’ practice, there was no ...