All Features articles – Page 60
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup: Poole Methodist Church extension by Intelligent Design Centre
The new extension to this church looks like a set of site huts
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup: The Francis Crick Institute, by HOK with PLP Architecture
A popular contender for the Carbuncle Cup, for some this building is proof big doesn’t mean beautiful
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup: One Smithfield, Stoke-on-Trent by RHWL Architects
Intended as a beacon for regeneration and a new home for Stoke council, this week’s contender instead caused a political storm
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FeaturesHousing design awards: the winners
This year’s entries reveal some interesting trends in housebuilding in the UK such as a reduction in common space, urban design principles being applied to greenfield sites and the successful use of custom build
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup: Camellia House & Blashill Court, Poplar, by AHR
Robin Hood Gardens may have had its critics but they should take a look at its replacement, says the nominator of this week’s entry
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup: The Diamond, University of Sheffield by Twelve Architects
Diamond by name, diamond by nature - Sheffield’s new engineering building features this overpowering three dimensional cladding
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FeaturesCarbuncle Cup: Saffron Square, Croydon by Rolfe Judd
We kick off this year’s Carbuncle Cup with a multicoloured monster in Croydon town centre
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FeaturesHow to work for the world's biggest property company
China’s £70bn Wanda Group will open 55 shopping malls and 18 hotels in China alone this year, and its ambitious plans are increasingly targeting the rest of the world. British architects are being offered a piece of the action. Lai Jian Yan, vice president of Wanda Commercial Properties, the world’s ...
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FeaturesObituary to a great London sausage factory
One of London’s most significant concrete buildings is being demolished without a murmur. Nina Rappaport pays tribute to Owen Williams’ ground-breaking Sainsbury factory in Southwark
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FeaturesPolicymakers could do with a dose of architects' creativity
Joanna Day chews over some of the ideas for London’s mis-used spaces that surfaced through a Royal Academy competition
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FeaturesAravena's Biennale raises taxing questions
Weighty issues come under the Venice spotlight this year. But some of them might be better addressed through tax law than architecture, suggests Amanda Baillieu
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FeaturesAmanda Baillieu's Venice highlights
Eavesdrop on Alvaro Siza’s post-occupancy research and grapple with questions about Fairtrade buildings and refugees
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FeaturesBritish Pavilion is a missed opportunity
Home Economics, the UK’s contribution to the Venice Biennale, could have made some radical proposals for better ways of living but instead relies on models that already exist. Hugh McEwen finds debate is raging at Venice. Just not here
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FeaturesAn architectural guide to the institutions of the EU
Bureaucratic blandsville or an architectural tour de force? Ike Ijeh takes a tour of the EU’s most important buildings to judge for himself
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FeaturesOn site with Weston Williamson at Paddington Crossrail station
As the mammoth £14.8bn infrastructure project enters its final 18 months, Elizabeth Hopkirk looks round the Paddington station construction site with its architects
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FeaturesDon't blame the client - they're bloody heroes
It’s a miracle anything gets built given that every building is a prototype and most clients are ingénues, says the author of a new book intended to guide them through the pitfalls
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FeaturesA European's guide to working in New York
Could you hack it in the city that never sleeps? You’re an architect: you don’t sleep anyway. Of course you could
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Features'Aggressive and banal' - Zaha Hadid's Serpentine Sackler Gallery
In the last in the series looking back at BD reviews of Zaha Hadid buildings down the years, our then architecture critic Ellis Woodman was left unimpressed with the late architect’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
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FeaturesThe green business case
The government has cut reams of sustainability legislation. But can sticking with the eco agenda make financial sense anyway?
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FeaturesYoung Architects of the Year: On sustainability, part II
In the second of our series talking to the finalists in BD’s Young Architect of the Year Award, the architects give us their take on sustainability