All Archive Titles articles – Page 25
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Archive TitlesThe original — Trevor Dannatt
Hugh Pearman, RIBA Journal editor, interviews Trevor Dannatt, one of the original Royal Festival Hall architects in the late 1940s and still active today. Fiercely protective of the building and a doughty but always fair-minded critic of some of the alterations, he talks about what it was like to work ...
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Cultural studies
The reopening of the Royal Festival Hall and the Millennium Dome show us a changing Britain, says Grant Gibson.
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Archive TitlesCone of discovery
The same Allies and Morrison team that was rushing to complete the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank had a slightly earlier deadline to meet downriver in Greenwich: a 120-seat planetarium at the Royal Observatory, part of the National Maritime Museum complex.
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Archive TitlesThe client — Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch runs the South Bank Centre and has a reputation as a hard man. He pulls no punches in this conversation with Grant Gibson.
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Heart and soul of the city
The article ‘Soul-searching cities’, by Philip Sheldrake (RIBAJ April 07), is a refreshing and timely reminder of the need for identity in the urban context.
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Archive TitlesWhat is... the Festival of Britain Society?
An organisation created to keep alive the spirit of 1951 is the short answer. Its first informal meeting took place in 1989 after a talk by Abram Games to Portsmouth Philatelic Society on how he came up with the festival logo.
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Archive TitlesThe project manager — Ian Blackburn
A project manager who reads music and sings? The tall, studious Ian Blackburn fits none of the usual construction-industry stereotypes. He tells Grant Gibson how he got a grip on the RFH project.
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Archive TitlesBack by popular demand
The Royal Festival Hall has retained its place in British affections through the vagaries of six decades. It reopens this month after a £111 million redevelopment. By Hugh Pearman. Portraits: Steve Speller
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Underground assets
Inspired by the RFH’s original environment strategy, engineer Max Fordham is proposing a grey water pipeline along the South Bank.
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Coasting along
In recent months the RIBAJ letters page has been used to abuse the magazine’s design.
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Archive TitlesThe architect — Allies and Morrison
The Allies and Morrison team (minus Graham Morrison, who was out of the country at the time) talk to Grant Gibson about dealing politely but firmly with a listed masterpiece.
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Archive TitlesWe can all learn from each other
Goh Chong Chia represents Singapore on RIBA Council so I flew to his city state to meet our 200 members there and to talk about the RIBA’s campaigns, particularly PFI.
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Archive TitlesThe acoustician — Larry Kirkegaard
The sound but not the fury – acoustician Larry Kirkegaard talks gasping fish and warm hugs with Jan-Carlos Kucharek.
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Archive TitlesCPD Module 17: Pultruded fibreglass technology in fenestration
Welcome to Module 17 in our occasional series of CPD features designed to broaden your professional knowledge while you work. This module is sponsored by Marvin Architectural.
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Archive TitlesHandle with care
From the People’s Palace to Her Majesty’s loo, the RFH’s 450 doors presented challenges of particular sensitivity to the restorers of the hall’s modernist ironmongery.
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Archive TitlesStirling stuff
You can take the high road or the low road but we’ve got to Scotland’s Six Cities Design Festival afore ye…
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Archive TitlesSwim and a prayer
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s new swimming pool in Formby pays homage to Peter Zumthor’s St Benedict’s Chapel. But it wouldn’t do for its users to be too reverential. Photographs by Dennis Gilbert/view