All articles by Katherine Hayes – Page 4

  • Zaha Hadid
    Review

    Cultural Guide: June 6 to June 12

    2011-06-06T10:31:00Z

    This week’s cultural guide pays a visit to shores of Scotland to join Zaha Hadid on the eve of the opening of her Riverside Museum in Glasgow, amongst other cultural treats.

  • Ashmolean Museum
    Review

    Cultural Guide: May 31 to June 5

    2011-05-31T10:22:00Z

    We’re lecture heavy on this week’s cultural guide, so tune those ears into Rick Mather’s thoughts on his Ashmolean museum extension and also whether the future of our cities lies in the grip of the railways

  • George Shaw The Sly and Unseen Day
    Review

    Cultural Guide: May 23- 29

    2011-05-23T10:02:00Z

    This week’s guide celebrates all things design with Clerkenwell Design week and a trip down boyhood memory lane with the South London gallery

  • Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want
    Review

    Cultural Guide: May 16-22

    2011-05-16T08:42:00Z

    British art’s enfant terrible, Tracey Emin returns to the limelight with the Hayward Gallery and we learn whether science fiction is any closer to becoming science fact with the AA School

  • Alexandra Road
    Review

    Cultural Guide: May 9- 13

    2011-05-09T10:25:00Z

    This week’s cultural guide narrowly escapes an Edwardian Sheffield workhouse to indulge in a little post-war glamour with a newly completed glimpse of the Alexandra Road estate

  • United Church of the Kingdom of God, Finsbury Park 2003
    Review

    Cultural Guide: April 18- 24

    2011-04-18T08:56:00Z

    This week’s cultural guide visits accidental churches in the most unlikely locations, before taking a dip in Bompas & Parr’schocolate fountain

  • Gareth Jones, Sliced Cube No. 2, 1998. Collage on card, 296 x 210 mm.
    Review

    Cultural Guide: April 11-17

    2011-04-11T09:00:00Z

    This week’s cultural guide explores the ruins of contemporary Detroit before getting down to the roots of the modernist dream, with Milton Keynes in its infancy.

  • Béton Brut
    Review

    Cultural Guide: April 4-10

    2011-04-04T08:21:00Z

    This week’s cultural guide considers the merits of Béton Brut alongside a rethink of James Stirling’s work in the context of the crisis of modernism

  • Leicester Engineering Building
    Review

    Cultural Guide: March 28- April 2

    This week’s cultural guide gets to grips with Stirling and Gowan’s Leicester Engineering Building amongst other highlights

  • BarRectum, 2005
    Review

    Cultural Guide: March 21- 27

    2011-03-21T09:00:00Z

    You’ll certainly need to wash your hands this week after this our cultural highlights include a brief history of dirt and a trip to a bar with a difference

  • Cedric Price: mental notes
    Review

    Cultural Guide: March 14-20

    2011-03-14T08:57:00Z

    This week’s cultural guide delves into the mind of Cedric Price, before touching on a revolutionary 1970s prototype project for the future of art practice

  • Did somebody say utility?
    Blogs

    The Architecture of Embarrassment

    2011-03-09T10:50:00Z

    There are seven different ways to embarrass an architect, or so we are told.

  • still from China Is Still Far (Wa Laou fil Seen / La Chine est encore loin)
    Review

    Cultural Guide: March 7- 13

    2011-03-07T09:34:00Z

    This week’s cultural highlights include a cinematic trip to the far reaches of China and the urban landscape of Detroit

  • Anthony McCall - Vertical Works
    Review

    Cultural Guide: February 28 - March 4

    2011-02-28T09:02:00Z

    This week’s cultural guide explores the interface between public and private spaces in Shieldfield, Newcastle, before hazarding a guess at the future of architecture, 25 years down the line

  • Just call me dude
    Blogs

    Bird watching gets sexy

    2011-02-21T09:54:00Z

    Bird watching, twitching and birding are all pursuits that have not generally been associated with cupid’s arching arrow.

  • Learning to Dwell: Adolf Loos in the Czech Lands
    Review

    Cultural Guide: February 21-27

    2011-02-21T09:00:00Z

    This week’s cultural guide learns a little more about early pioneer of Modern architecture, Adolf Loos before signing up to a close encounter with Iconic artist and architect Vito Acconci at UCL

  • Southwyck House, robot style
    Blogs

    Robot down to Electric Avenue

    2011-02-15T10:06:00Z

    Take a trip to a different reality and you’ll find that the one man’s alternate vision of Brixton is not gentrification but ‘cyber-ification’.

  • 51% Studios: Nestworks for the Urban Birds of Bankside
    Review

    Cultural Guide: February 14- 20

    2011-02-14T09:00:00Z

    This week’s cultural guide is all about charity, coming to the aid of the world’s oldest cast-iron framed building before answering the plight of the capital’s birds

  • you can see this from the fenestration
    Blogs

    Architectural tongue-twisters

    2011-02-11T08:46:00Z

    Whilst the ridicule poured on office based jargon has been well documented architects, with their own brand of the fluffy stuff, seem to have escaped relatively lightly.

  • Peter Dauphin's 'Oh the shark has pretty teeth- London 1'
    Review

    Cultural Guide: February 7- 13

    2011-02-07T08:22:00Z

    This week’s cultural guide is a tale of two Davids- Chipperfield and Bowie.