All From the Archive articles – Page 7
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FeaturesDe Rijke gets an early public airing
The RCA’s new dean appeared in BD 20 years ago wearing his own T-shirt design
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FeaturesLiquid architecture
As Adam Khan’s visitor centre launches, we remember the only other floating design to feature in BD
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FeaturesExpansion Spiked
In 1982 BD reported on how the Victorian Society campaigned against a RMJM scheme for the Natural History Museum, with the aid of Spike Milligan and a sponge cake
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FeaturesEnd of a dream for Edinburgh’s Gulliver
Gulliver EdinburghGulliver Edinburgh Date September 1978Location Craigmillar, EdinburghArtist Jimmy BoyleIn the week Owen Hatherley’s urban trawl takes him to the Scottish capital, we look back to when the “longest concrete sculpture in Europe” was unveiled in Craigmillar, Edinburgh, in 1978.Constructed by young unemployed people as part ...
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FeaturesParry’s debut is a distinctive mix
Date 1982Location StonesfieldArchitect Eric Parry and Doug ClellandIn the week that Eric Parry sets out his enthusiasm for Hamburg’s Chilehaus in our monthly Inspiration feature (page 16), we look back to Parry’s first built work, undertaken in collaboration with his then partner, Doug Clelland.Located in rural Oxfordshire, this was a ...
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FeaturesMountain tension in East Anglia
As Norman Foster reveals his plans to overhaul Britain’s transport infrastructure, we recall another ambitious - but unrealised - project
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FeaturesRobert Mull's Spiritual light
As London Metropolitan University’s architecture department contemplates moving buildings, we remember it’s dean’s Part III project
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Archive TitlesIf you’re in a hole
In 1991 BD reported on student Jonathan Moseley’s practical Land Art study, which involved 16 students digging into Dungeness beach.
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Archive TitlesThe winds of change
Future Systems tent-like structure in Croydon met a premature end
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FeaturesHigh-energy encounter with Benn
The then energy minister talked chimneys and renewables with BD editor Peter Murray in 1977
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FeaturesGearing up for their second act
In 1986, when BD reported on their lecture Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth were in a quiet time in their career
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FeaturesTowering ambition
In 1988 BD reported on this scheme for a 213m high tower for the centre of Plymouth
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FeaturesFair and square?
Paternoster Square’s aesthetic is feted by Pablo Bronstein, we remember how John Simpson’s scheme gazumped the original competition winner
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ReviewSmooth talking
In 1972 BD’s editor met Birmingham’s successful, and expensively tanned, John Madin
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FeaturesA bridge too far for London
In light of the Potters Fields controversy, we remember John Simpson’s ambitious plans for its neighbouring site – London Bridge City – 20 years ago.
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FeaturesTrying to take a detached view
In 1985 BD was optimistic about plans to join the two halves of one of London’s earliest semis.
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FeaturesA room fit for the royal honeymoon
As the UK braces itself for another royal wedding spectacle, we look back at BD’s competition for Charles and Diana’s nuptials.
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