All articles by Katherine Hayes – Page 6
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BlogsMap making with Koolhaas
How’s your cognitive map? That’s the burning question that strangely enough, Psychological scientists are dying to ask architects.
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ReviewCultural Guide: November 29 to December 5
This week’s cultural guide has a knees up in a secret warehouse location with ’Alice in Gypsyland’ before learning an exercise in stillness with Manon De Boer at the South London Gallery
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BlogsEating away at the tower block
Yacht interior design technology and crumbling 60s and 70s tower blocks may yet become the unlikely saviours of those falling off the greasy rungs of the property ladder.
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BlogsA bijou zombie residence
News junkie’s domestic mice woes were put in perspective this week with news of slightly more troublesome house guests- the undead.
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ReviewCultural Guide: November 22- 28
This week’s cultural guide takes a photographic tour of rural Norfolk before getting into the nitty gritty of a major museum overhaul at the V&A.
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BlogsArchitect builds the ultimate breakfast - no parametrics involved
News junkie was roused from this morning’s croissants to news that architects don’t just do buildings - they do breakfast too.
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ReviewFrank Watson: The Back of Beyond
BD gets a sneak preview of Frank Watson’s photographic and video journey through England’s crumbling cold war military remnants, the Thames Gateway and the Isles of Grain.
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ReviewCultural Guide: November 15- 21
This week’s cultural guide says a final farewell to the Heygate estate before brushing up on the finer points of German expressionist architecture
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ReviewRip it Up #5: The Troublemakers - independent practice and its targets
London Met’s Rip it Up lecture series began with a question - where are all the young troublemakers and what they were doing. Well here they are, and the answer is quite a lot.
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BlogsLe Corbusier and the case of the missing masterplan
It might sound like a particularly ludicrous plot for a crime novel, but Chandigargh’s original masterplan really is missing.
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ReviewCultural Guide: November 8-14
This week’s cultural guide brushes up on a little Kafka before debating the architectural finery of Westminster Abbey.
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ReviewCultural Guide- November 1-7
This week’s cultural guide follows Owen Luder on his last visit to Gateshead’s most famous carpark, in the premiere of a film dedicated to the architect; before showing a childlike side with the Institute of Play at the V&A Museum of Childhood.
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BlogsChanging rooms
In one of the world’s most densely populated cities, a local architect has come up with an original way to make the most of his living space.
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Features635x508: Heygate Abstracted
BD has a sneak preview of architectural photographer Simon Kennedy’s exhibition on the notorious Heygate estate, which opens in November.
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ReviewCultural Guide: Oct 25-31
This week’s cultural guide discovers what’s next for Britain’s great historic houses before being chilled with Alfred Hitchcock, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican.
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BlogsAnother Ground Zero row breaks out
A row has broken out Stateside over the plans to replace The Winter Gardens at Ground Zero, one of the first pieces of Ground Zero to be rebuilt after the 9/11 attacks, with a deisgn by Cesar Pelli’s son.
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BlogsThe Hypothetical Development Organisation
Just in case the projects on show at the annual student shows weren’t enough for you, there’s now an actual organisation dedicated to the creation of hypothetical architecture.
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ReviewCultural Guide: October 18-24
This week’s cultural guide looks at Bristol’s brief flirtation with modernism in the 1930s before flexing its artistic muscles with life drawing under the eaves of the Barbican.
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ReviewCultural guide: October 11-17
This week’s cultural guide looks at glass pieces which fuse neo-classical silver forms with the organic and also takes a contemporary look at the traditional concept of Vanitas painting.
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MultimediaHerzog & de Meuron's Hamburg concert hall nears completion
Neutral combines the construction process with visualisations of the finished structure in this unusual video of Hamburg’s controversial Elbphilharmonie concert hall by Herzog & de Meuron.