David Owen

  • Lina Bo Bardi book cover
    Opinion

    Book Club review: Lina Bo Bardi

    2014-05-19T07:48:00

    Let’s be grateful Bo Bardi did not melt into academe, says David Owen

  • Owen Hatherley
    Opinion

    BDP and Preston got it right first time

    2011-06-10T00:00:00

    The bus station is the firm’s, and the town’s, best loved building. So why are they both building a mall in its place?

  • The floor pattern is modelled on Walter Oberholtzer’s art work, Bloodstreamer.
    Building Study

    Perrault brings café society to Reigate

    2008-06-20T00:00:00

    David Owen admires Dominique Perrault’s British debut: a café in deepest stockbroker belt at Reigate. Pictures by Morley von Sternberg

  • Hodder’s student block that houses staircases 20-22.
    Building Study

    Finishing touches

    2006-04-13T00:00:00

    Stephen Hodder's project at St Catherine's College has spanned a decade of building and restoration work to Arne Jacobsen's 1960s campus. The final phase of his masterplan - a set of student housing blocks - is complete, and it has been been worth the wait.

  • The Meadlands Primary School classroom showing how the form has been truncated to provide an entrance portico.
    Building Study

    Tic tac toe

    2005-02-11T00:00:00

    As the government plans to dramatically change the look of the UK’s schools, we review a new classroom design by Future Systems