All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 28
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Archive TitlesThe treasure house that isn’t
Once, Lottery money stimulated above-average architecture.
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Archive TitlesHarbour master
Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s new gallery in Boston, now crouched alone by the sea, spearheads a regeneration of the waterfront made possible by the city’s Big Dig.
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Archive TitlesMiddle ground
Art & Architecture: A Place Between, by Jane Rendell, I B Tauris, £17.99
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Archive TitlesGlory in the highest
It’s taken 13 years, cost half a million pounds, and it isn’t even a building.
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The future is in good hands
The President’s Medals evening at the RIBA never fails to lift the spirits, and the ceremony just before Christmas was a good example of why that should be.
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Stay small, have more fun
‘Getting managers you can trust is the first step to growth’ according to the Practice pages of your December issue.
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We want to join debate
May I look to all the talks on climate change and other matters referred to in the January Briefing pages being published in the RIBA Journal, for the benefit of myself and others who are unable to attend the meetings to hear the speakers?
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Crying out for a jigsaw
The wonderful drawing by Cockerell of the Wren collage in your January edition (News, page 7) should immediately be produced as a jigsaw for all us jigsaw lovers.
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Cut the crap
I totally agree with your comment ‘It’s not just the local authorities and the Treasury who need convincing that good design pays. It’s the profession at large’ (Leader, Jan 07).
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Correction
A caption to a photograph of St George’s School for Girls (RIBAJ Jan 07, p43) wrongly stated the Reglit panels were part of a fire escape and one-hour fire rated.
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Take climate initiative
An RIBA strategy on climate change is long overdue and the item in the December issue (Briefing, page 60) reflects the tentative nature of the approach to date instead of the well informed action plan that should be in place by now.
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Archive TitlesWho is Victor Callister?
He’s the design-minded planner in charge of Street Scene Challenge, an impressive urban improvement project in the Square Mile of the City of London, that’s who.
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Archive TitlesBland on the run
Speculative office buildings are often unashamedly banal. And if they’re not banal they’re frighteningly expensive. But two recent London schemes make novel use of the facade to create exciting buildings that won’t scare off clients or their tenants.
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Archive TitlesThe artist's friend
Jamie Fobert finds more inspiration in contemporary sculpture than in design magazines. Perhaps that’s why he never lets his art spaces overwhelm the work.
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We build art galleries
Artist Richard Wentworth believes, the way the Victorians built churches.
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Archive TitlesIf that's art, I'm a Dutchman
With Erick van Egeraat’s first UK building, Middlesbrough is showing some good old-fashioned civic pride. So how does it work as an art gallery?
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Site airport at Foulness
A few weeks ago Uttlesford District Council refused BAA’s planning application to increase the number of passengers using Stansted Airport from 25 million to 35 million a year.
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Archive TitlesFoiled again
Insulation materials are going to play an increasing role in reducing carbon emissions – helping the government meet its 2016 zero carbon homes target, for example. But are the new generation of multifoils all they’re cracked up to be?