All Archive Titles articles – Page 13
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Archive TitlesLetter from... the air
Architect Guy Greenfield divides his life between his London office and the West Country, where site hunting gives him an excellent excuse to open the throttle
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Archive TitlesOver the rainbow
Determined not to limit students’ choices and dreams, Mecanoo designed the da Vinci Academy in Dordrecht to foster interdisciplinary interaction. You can have too much of a good thing, though…
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Archive TitlesA room of one’s own
At Folkestone Academy Foster and Partners offers pupils more of a stake in the school, with ‘house’ rooms where they can eat, play and belong.
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Archive TitlesMountain rescue
Everest Community College is the result of Hampshire County Council’s mission to rescue a failing school and provide a focus for a new community. And not a PFI developer or city academy in sight.
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Money talks
If there was one thing more predictable than the news that Rem Koolhaas’s OMA is to design a Maggie’s Centre (the second one in Glasgow), it is the item that came hot on its heels: that Frank Gehry is to design next summer’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion.
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Archive TitlesListen to Uncle Ted
‘Thank you, fellow architects, for appreciating the value of a general practitioner,’ said Ted Cullinan, on being named 2008 Royal Gold Medallist.
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Speed kills
Building Schools for the Future is exactly the sort of radical, far-reaching (and, at £45bn, expensive) policy we all thought we’d get every week when we voted for New Labour in ‘97, isn’t it?
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Inflammatory stuff
I entirely agree with George Oldham’s letter ‘Architecture of Fear’ (RIBAJ Jan 08).
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Archive TitlesHearts and minds
The heart of Bridge Academy in east London hangs off this huge hoop.
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Archive TitlesGlobal problem – global solution
By the time you read this Gordon Brown will have received a letter about Climate Change from the RIBA and sister institutes under the Construction Industry Council umbrella.
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‘Extremists’ are in power
How refreshing to read George Oldham’s letter; what a pleasure to know there is someone else who has not been conned by the extremist government’s indoctrination of most of the people into meekly accepting more and more repressive measures for fear of losing their security and safety.
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Archive TitlesLimited edition
A new book on the work of Colin St John Wilson is more revealing in its omissions than its inclusions.
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Crystal vision
Your January 2008 issue highlighting the enormous success of the renewed St Pancras Station was greatly appreciated. As you rightly said, ‘This is one of architecture’s big victories’.
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Fellow cringer
Thank you for speaking out about the kissing couple commissioned for St Pancras (RIBAJ Jan 08).
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Archive TitlesHow cool is that?
Is it any wonder young people feel excluded from the public realm when they’re never asked what they want from it? Give them the chance, though, and children have plenty of ideas for designers to chew on.
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More champagne please
One glaring omission from the list contributors to St Pancras International Station (RIBAJ Jan 08) is Pascall+Watson architects, who, commissioned by the Corber joint venture, for over four years provided a resource of about 20 architects and architectural assistants, many of them RIBA members and regular readers of your excellent ...
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Archive TitlesVertically challenged
Oxford planners wanted the university’s new biochemistry block to reflect the kind of vertical emphasis typical of gothic architecture. Hawkins Brown’s glass facade fins do the job, straight up.
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Archive TitlesCabin class
Temporary huts stuck in odd corners are a feature of many schools. Thomas’s Day School in Clapham, London has got a deluxe version for its reception classes, as might be expected for a prep school that charges £3905 a term.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Design manager for Partnerships for Schools Jonathan Ibikunle explains to Eleanor Young why he’s passionate about his job and delivering BSF