All From the Archive articles – Page 5
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FeaturesAn alternative future for the Tate
In the week that sees the opening of the Tanks, the latest phase of Herzog & de Meuron’s development of the former Bankside Power Station into Tate Modern, we look back 18 years to the announcement of the original competition shortlist.
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FeaturesOnly lions missing from Spartan Munich
As the Soane Museum features an exhibit on stadiums, we look back to the 1972 Munich Games
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FeaturesSpitting image
As we review the latest addition to Poundbury, we take you back to 1981 when its masterplanner had a replica of his head sculpted in plaster
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FeaturesRediscovering the village in Deptford
As a BBC2 series bemoans the power of planners, we revisit Depford in 1977 to demonstrate that the council’s Nicholas Taylor was actually battling to save the high street
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FeaturesIt’s not about the money
In the week that we feature Wilkinson Eyre’s Singapore Gardens by the Bay, we look back to when the architects appeared in BD in 1998 - looking like they had walked off the set of Miami Vice.
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FeaturesStyle is de rigueur
A look back to when BD featured two “gourmet” books on interior design in 1989.
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FeaturesLandmark moments
A look back at BD’s interview with Landmark Trust founder John Smith in 1965
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FeaturesHi-tech shelter with a heart of stone
As we feature Dualchas Architecture’s sensitive response to the vernacular forms of the Isle of Skye, we look back to when a rather less contextual structure appeared in Easter Ross near Inverness.
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FeaturesThe Dubliners’ early hits remembered
As O’Donnell & Tuomey’s overhaul of the Photographers’ Gallery completes, BD looks back to when the duo gave a talk in Oxford in 1989
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FeaturesCoronation streets
As the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee approaches, we look back at how the nation marked her 25th year on the throne
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FeaturesWay In to a new era of designer shopping
Architect Jiricna Kerr Associates refurbished Harrods’ clothing store in 1985 in black and grey
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ReviewThe all-singing all-dancing pomo toilets
In the week Gort Scott reveals plans for park toilets in Wembley, we remember when another striking public convenience caused a stir in Leicester in 1981
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FeaturesPermission to dock
In 2004 Alsop’s Middlehaven scheme set out to change the narrative of the Tees Valley
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FeaturesFuller sips his last cup of tea
Friends paid tribute to Richard Buckminster Fuller on his death in 1983
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FeaturesA short journey through time and space
In 1991 the partners of ABK were giving their first talk together for 25 years
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Features1984: the year Eames & Prouvé’s architectural designs took flight
In the week we review the new Ferrari Museum building, we remember an unusual creation
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FeaturesTrail of the unexpected
As the Jerwood Gallery opens in Hastings, we look back to an earlier tourist attraction in the seaside town
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ReviewRoar talent
As John McAslan’s King’s Cross project opens to the public, we look back to one of the times the architect first featured in BD
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FeaturesGood morning from 1994’s golden couple
Michael and Patty Hopkins were the first married partnership to win the RIBA Gold Medal since the Eameses
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FeaturesDawning of a new era
The USSR’s Research Institute of Construction Physics developed this ‘daytime version of London’s famous planetarium’ in the eighties