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Time is running out to save this Aalto-influenced masterpiece
It will be a tragedy if Bob Giles’ West London College is demolished next year, writes Tom Cordell
It takes decades to build a place’s character. Can developers ever short-circuit that process?
Set aside your branding and logos, advises Martyn Evans
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BD Digital Edition - September 2019
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Building Studies
Building Study: The Twist, Norway, by BIG
Building Study: Tintagel Bridge, Cornwall, by William Matthews Associates
Building Study: James Simon Galerie, Berlin, by David Chipperfield
Building Study: Churchill College housing, Cambridge, by Cottrell & Vermeulen
Ike Ijeh’s verdict: Junya Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion
Building Study: Drayton Green Church, by Piercy & Company
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Jamie Fobert: ‘Our AYA win feels like a new beginning’
Gallery: Pictures from BD’s Architect of the Year Awards
Jamie Fobert crowned Architect of the Year
Full list of winners from BD’s Architect of the Year Awards 2019
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Inspirations
Delvendahl Martin’s inspiration: Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto
Nikolai Delvendahl and Eric Martin explain how the modernist view of the imperial palace misses all the emotion
It takes decades to build a place’s character. Can developers ever short-circuit that process?
Set aside your branding and logos, advises Martyn Evans
Esther McVey’s ignorance can’t go unchallenged
Julia Park skewers the government’s muddled thinking on housing design and planning
It’s time the Stirling loosened up
How can you possibly assess a railway station against a private house, asks Ben Flatman
Architectural education is a problem of degrees
The profession’s unprofessional origins might have something useful to say about its future, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
What the Future Homes Standard means for you
Andrew Mellor explains how to future-proof schemes in a fast-moving regulatory landscape
Charting the contours of history
From school atlas to GPS, maps are the key to understanding ourselves, says Gillian Darley
Technical Feature
Technical Study: Science Museum supporters’ centre, by Hat Projects
The conversion of a former Royal Mail sorting office into the £3.5m Smith Centre required instinct and guts, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
Time is running out to save this Aalto-influenced masterpiece
It will be a tragedy if Bob Giles’ West London College is demolished next year, writes Tom Cordell
The verdict: Ike Ijeh on the 2019 Stirling Prize winner
BD’s architecture critic suggests the judges allowed populism to influence their decision more than architecture
It takes more than a design guide to produce quality council housing
Governance, procurement and culture are the real hurdles, says Claire Bennie
Look north: The Stirling Prize after Brexit
The prize’s overwhelming southern bias is symptomatic of what prompted many to vote leave, says Tom Brooksbank
Esther McVey is wrong about architecture in every dimension
Housing minister’s much-ridiculed discovery of ‘3D architects’ betrays a deeper misunderstanding, writes Robert Adam
In pictures: Why we need to keep fighting for our modern heritage
As C20 Society celebrates its 40th anniversary Catherine Croft looks at some of the treasures we might have lost
How to design a good school dining room
Tom Waddicor looks at pitfalls and solutions in designing spaces for learners who lunch
Designing for God: Eric Mendelsohn’s US synagogues
After the trauma of the Holocaust, the task of defining what it meant to be Jewish and American fell to an architect who felt it was his destiny
Alan Jones: We need to talk
The profession is facing huge challenges. The new president of the RIBA tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how he plans to tackle them
How to build a circular economy
Petra Marko asks whether we can get to a place of ‘good growth’
We were so frustrated by gender equality events we decided to hold our own
Jennifer de Vere-Hopkins and Emily Lawrence of Jestico & Whiles explain why they put design at the heart of the equality debate
‘It’s just the same whether you are designing a building or a bike’
The architect who broke the men’s world cycling speed record at 174mph tells BD how he did it - and admits he was ‘absolutely terrified’
We should embrace AI to help us solve humanity’s existential crisis
With a fuller understanding of issues such as climate change and migration we have a better chance of developing solutions, writes Anna Liu
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