All Blogs articles – Page 27
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BlogsShould architects toast localism's bottoms-up approach?
The Localism Bill will finally be published next week. Will it bring opportunities or another reason to fear and mistrust the coalition government ?
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BlogsMap making with Koolhaas
How’s your cognitive map? That’s the burning question that strangely enough, Psychological scientists are dying to ask architects.
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BlogsEating away at the tower block
Yacht interior design technology and crumbling 60s and 70s tower blocks may yet become the unlikely saviours of those falling off the greasy rungs of the property ladder.
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BlogsPolitics of the pop-up
A flood of temporary projects have been popping-up across our cities’ vacant sites, but who is behind them and what do they mean?
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Blogs25 ways to patronise the public
The RIBA is on a mission to make architecture seem more comprehensible to the public but using the language of estate agents is not the way to do it.
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BlogsA bijou zombie residence
News junkie’s domestic mice woes were put in perspective this week with news of slightly more troublesome house guests- the undead.
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BlogsChipperfield’s Turner Contemporary is no oil painting
Only when people realise what could have built in Margate will they understand the huge opportunity that’s been lost.
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BlogsArchitect builds the ultimate breakfast - no parametrics involved
News junkie was roused from this morning’s croissants to news that architects don’t just do buildings - they do breakfast too.
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BlogsArchitects with moustaches
November has been re-christened to help raise awareness of testicular cancer and architects around the country are doing their bit with some facial fuzz.
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BlogsNever mind lesbians, what does Lip Service say about architects?
Architects are portrayed as inefficient, sexist and badly behaved in the BBC’s new lesbian drama partly filmed in Glasgow’s Lighthouse.
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BlogsLe Corbusier and the case of the missing masterplan
It might sound like a particularly ludicrous plot for a crime novel, but Chandigargh’s original masterplan really is missing.
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BlogsSowing design on New Islington’s fallow ground
Property Week’s competition to devise a “meanwhile use” for an east Manchester site has produced two intriguing proposals
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BlogsHow to dress like an architect
In an industry obsessed with style, why does everyone end up dressing the same way?
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BlogsMoving out of the comfort zone
An architect loses his wallet on the London Undergound after winning an international competition. Is he just careless or does this hint at something deeper ?
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BlogsCome friendly developers ...
The government has decided to tear up the 20 year old plan for the Thames Gateway and let the free market take over. Is this a good idea or not ?
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BlogsThe mayor doth protest too much
Boris Johnson’s remark that he would not allow “Kosovo-style social cleansing” in the capital has sparked a huge row between a Tory mayor and the coalition government.
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BlogsChanging rooms
In one of the world’s most densely populated cities, a local architect has come up with an original way to make the most of his living space.
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BlogsLet the insults fly
We are back to the dark days of Thatcherisim but would Labour have been any different ?
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BlogsAnother Ground Zero row breaks out
A row has broken out Stateside over the plans to replace The Winter Gardens at Ground Zero, one of the first pieces of Ground Zero to be rebuilt after the 9/11 attacks, with a deisgn by Cesar Pelli’s son.
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BlogsCabe was architect of its own demise
Cabe wasn’t saved but had it listened to its critics things might have been different.