All Archive Titles articles – Page 26
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Archive TitlesSurveys validate our strategy
In March RIBA Council heard reports on three major surveys: what members think of us, what non-architects think of us, and our chances of fund-raising to support our outreach activities. It’s key stuff to planning the RIBA’s future.
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Archive TitlesLetter from Spurn Point
Gales may destroy the road but not the spirit at Humber lifeboat station, says coxswain David Steenvoorden
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The skills initiative
Sustainable building and engineering skills are in short supply, according to one of the nation’s leading consulting engineers, atelier ten. In an effort to redress this, the practice has joined forces with Sponge, the independent network of young professionals working in architecture, engineering, planning and construction, to set up a ...
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Archive TitlesEvery little helps
A certification scheme launched this month will help architects assess microgeneration power systems. You might qualify for a grant too...
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Archive TitlesDream merchants
Many architects have big ideas, but Marks Barfield get theirs built. The latest is a 140m observation tower on Brighton seafront.
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Archive TitlesDetective story
Do we need another Scarpa book? Yes, says Richard Murphy, because this one brings to light previously unknown works.
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Archive TitlesJust your cup of tea?
It’s fair to say that the Heatherwick Studio-designed East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton, Sussex, due to open this month, has split the RIBA Journal office in half.
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Coastal current
A chain of galleries is opening along the South-east coast. Alan Haydon, director of the De La Warr Pavilion, explains.
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Coast to coast
In the United Kingdom we are conditioned by the idea of the coast. It defines our identity.
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Archive TitlesOne careful owner
Using secondhand prefabs for a campus nursery in east London not only scored environmental points but freed cash for imaginative outdoor spaces.
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Archive TitlesBrief encounter
Allan Brodie, (yes, that’s him in the picture), is a senior investigator at English Heritage, who has spent the past five years researching the history of the UK’s seaside towns. He tells Grant Gibson about the peculiarities and challenges of our coastal life
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Archive TitlesBrine in the blood
Of all the elements in the Shetland Islands’ history, the dominant one is always the sea. BDP’s new museum in Lerwick is suitably salty.
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Archive TitlesOh, we do like to be beside the seaside…
… where the brassbands play, tiddley-om-pom-pom! The picture postcard view of our seaside may be long gone, but, for all the talk of decline, many of our coastal towns are thriving. By Fred Gray
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Archive TitlesBay watch – art on the coast
If architecture has a key role to play in reviving our coastal resorts, then so too does art.
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Archive TitlesAhoy there
Charles Dickens praised Folkestone for furnishing ‘a picture with such music in the billowy rush upon the shingle, such charms of sight and sound as all the galleries on earth can but poorly suggest’.
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Wood’s a winner
Entries are now open for The Wood Awards 2007. The premier prize for wood in buildings and furniture is in its fifth year covering virtually every type of project in construction, joinery and furniture.
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Archive TitlesWere turning up the volume
Does every president come to the Institute as a critic and leave as a fan – slightly frustrated we can’t do enough to achieve our huge potential?
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Archive TitlesStreet theatre
LEDs have given architects a wonderful new tool for transforming urban space. Just don’t let the multimillion colour choices go to your head.