All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 113
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Upstart: Iain Meek on uneven RIBA boards
RIBA Council has just approved the governance proposals for the new bits of the institute – the charitable foundation, the members services union, the holding company and RIBA Companies.
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Summer in Berlin
There are the new embassies, Potsdamer Platz, Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum and the conversion of Hitler's 1936 Olympic Stadium for the 2006 World Cup Final.
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Arne Jacobsen exhibitions
This year is the 100th anniversary of Arne Jacobsen's birth.
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Gareth Hoskins unveils designs for V&A architecture gallery
Gareth Hoskins' design for the new architecture gallery at the Victoria & Albert Museum has finally been revealed.
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Some friendly advice
First architects were urged to become project managers, now they are set to take on another job on the side: independent construction client advisers.
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Powers of 10
The RIBA Information Service handles hundreds of queries from members. The 10 most frequently asked questions are about:
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What's new
The latest door and window products, plus the Natural Stone Show and a celebration of Arne Jacobsen's birth.
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New York mayor settles interiors suit
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg (pictured) has settled out of court with architect Alan Feltoon after accusing him of defrauding Bloomberg LP out of millions of dollars. The architect designed interiors for the media company's offices in Princeton, New Jersey.In the lawsuit, Bloomberg's lawyers claimed that the Philadelphia-based architect had ...
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Rio says no to Guggenheim
Plans to build a branch of the Guggenheim museum in Rio de Janeiro have provoked outspoken reactions in the city, with many locals accusing the New York institution of cultural high-handedness.
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Great outdoors
Not all Spanish villas are confections of terracotta tiles and wooden shutters. Carlos Ferrater's Ibiza home is a 'village' of pavilions designed for al fresco living.
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Gehry gets his licence
Frank Gehry has gained a licence to practise architecture in his native Canada on the eve of his 73rd birthday.
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UK gets its first polystyrene house
Polystyrene is about to make its British debut as a building material on a house in Teesside, north-east England.
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New homes for Indian earthquake zone
One year on from the earthquake that devastated India's Kutch region, whole villages of earthquake-proof houses have been constructed to replace those lost in the disaster.
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The dream factory
There are art galleries that don't look as good as Henning Larsen's electronics plant. In a Danish town filled with drab industrial sheds, the copper and glass building is a true landmark.
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New drama for Milan theatre
Safety fears have forced the temporary home of La Scala opera in Milan to close just two weeks after its January opening.
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Two jewels in Queens crown
Why is Queens so hot at the moment? According to City of New York administrative architect Patricia Knobloch, 'The cost of land probably has something to do with it. First the artists moved out here, then the galleries followed.' Now, two major gallery spaces are set to make the New ...
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Moscow classic close to collapse
Moisei Ginzburg's Narkomfin apartment building, hailed as the masterpiece of the Russian constructivist movement, could collapse within two years unless drastic measures are taken.
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Circuit training
What better decoration for an electronics factory than a pattern of circuits? Here's how Danish architect Henning Larsen reproduced the minuscule blobs and lines on an 80m long glass wall.
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Archive TitlesKurokawa to plan new Chinese city
Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa will get the chance to 'realise ideas I've had since the 1960s' by masterplanning a new city next to Zhengzhou, central China.