All Editorial articles – Page 165
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Opinion
Losing out from laissez faire
New thinking is needed in the planning system, but simply ditching all the rules will not improve the built environment
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins’ London Library
Haworth Tompkins’ ongoing expansion of the London Library has clarified and enhanced its internal spaces while retaining the unique character of this historic literary institution
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Opinion
Your enemy’s enemy is not your friend
Whatever the coalition policies bring, we must avoid any nostalgia for New Labour
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Opinion
Corrections: 02 July 2010
Our story “Market garden plans for Chelsea Barracks” (News June 11) said that the new scheme would include a 44-storey tower
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ReviewBuilding a Library 18: The Gothic Cathedral
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 2 July 2010
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday July 7 for a chance to win a copy of Architecture, by Geoffrey Makstutis
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FeaturesDot to dot results: June 25
The winner of last week’s competition was Brian Sheriff of Gilling Dod Architects in Liverpool, who identified Eero Saarinen’s Gateway Arch in St Louis
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OpinionLet’s build more Brynmawrs
Showcase factories would act as beacons of hope in the economic downturn.
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News
Canterbury Topping out for Williams’ theatre
Keith Williams Architects’ £25.6 million redevelopment of Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre has been topped out and is on track to be completed in September.
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FeaturesPiers Gough’s father caught knapping
BD visited an exhibition of sculptor Peter Gough’s work.
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Building StudyWaterloo Place charette
As part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture, five practices were invited to devise ideas for Waterloo Place. Here are the results.
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OpinionDon't run scared of Prince Charles
If the RIBA and the rest had had the balls to let Rogers’ Chelsea Barracks design go to planning, and welcome HRH’s views alongside the rest of the interested parties, this whole thing could have been thrashed out in the open, and perhaps we could have had a sensible debate ...
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InspirationsMichál Cohen’s inspiration: Hellerup School
Michál Cohen of Walters & Cohen Architects explains why this Copenhagen school, built only eight years ago, transformed her notions of what a school could be like, and tells how she has fared trying to introduce its ideas to British clients
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NewsMitchell Taylor Workshop’s library for King’s College, Taunton
Work has begun on Mitchell Taylor Workshop’s £1.2 million library for a private school in Somerset.
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ReviewDamascene: drawings by Michael Stiff
As part of the London Festival of Architecture, Michael Stiff of Stiff & Trevillion Architects is exhibiting his pastel and pencil drawings depicting the ancient buildings of Syria.
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ReviewThe New Décor and Ernesto Neto
The Hayward Gallery’s summer show is an uncomfortable journey into the world of interiors.
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Opinion
Lost delicacy
As much as Richard Rogers’ oeuvre is to be admired, no one seems to have discussed the design of the Chelsea Barracks scheme itself – nothwithstanding Prince Charles’s predictable but injudicious and unconstitutional opposition to it, and Quinlan Terry’s indigestible neo-gothic courtyard alternative
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Opinion
Out of touch elite
Three cheers for Prince Charles! He has become the people’s champion on so many issues.
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OpinionDo RIBA’s measures do enough to tackle low pay?
RIBA president Ruth Reed says the institute will define reasonable pay levels, but Keith Tomlinson argues the profession needs to fight harder for fair wages