All articles by Will Hunter – Page 4
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Features‘Nanny’ state keeps design feeling poorly
There’s a recent addition to my GP’s surgery — a large plasma TV screen displaying the multi-media equivalent of grainy 1960s public information films.
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FeaturesBuschow Henley on how to score an NHS healthcare project
Plastik Architects is about to merge with another practice and wants to secure larger commissions.
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FeaturesPenoyre & Prasad’s stylish building syndrome
The Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre at London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital sets a benchmark for NHS design.
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News
Big names set to join Circle’s healthcare framework
Health Properties Management, the development arm of UK-wide private healthcare operator Circle, has revealed that it is looking to sign more high-profile firms up to its hospitals panel.
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FeaturesTurning hospital design around with developer Circle
Top UK architects are being signed up to deliver healthcare with a dose of consumer culture
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Technical
Doors and windows at Hawkins Brown’s Yavneh College, Borehamwood, Herts
Will Hunter talks to Roger Hawkins about ins and outs at the practice’s recently completed school refurb
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TechnicalDoors and windows at David Archer Architects’ Print Room restaurant in Bournemouth
Will Hunter takes a look at the transformation of this grade II art deco building
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TechnicalIn the swim at Serie’s Blue Frog Acoustic Lounge, Mumbai
Architect Serie has transformed a disused warehouse into a cutting-edge music venue in India’s entertainment capital
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FeaturesVan Heyningen & Haward is top of the class in the education sector
The winner of BD’s Education Architect of the Year award talks about how the practice’s values of democracy and individuality guide its work on schools
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FeaturesStodgy BSF recipe needs new ingredients
The fact that Building Schools for the Future has fallen further behind schedule — just 12 schools will be completed this year when we were told four months ago it would be 14 — comes as little surprise.
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FeaturesPollard Thomas Edwards on how to act as developer and architect on school projects
Five Architecture wants to build schools in its home town of Glasgow — will the cross-funding model work there?
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TechnicalKSP Engel & Zimmermann’s Bergen-Belsen Centre
KSP Engel & Zimmermann Architects used high quality fair-faced concrete on its information centre to memorialise the historic Bergen-Belsen site
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TechnicalTwo unusual concrete wall projects add something new to the mix
Concrete is too often used in predictable forms, but there’s nothing routine about Alan Chandler’s Wall One or Gramazio & Kohler’s Perforated Wall, as Will Hunter explains
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TechnicalAHMM’s ‘refurbishment in extremis’ at 176 in north London
“You find a disused rotten building and you keep as much as possible.” Simon Allford talks to Will Hunter about his firm’s conversion of a former methodist church into a private art gallery
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NewsUnesco refutes claims of Gazprom tower u-turn
Unesco has strongly denied press reports that it no longer has concerns about the impact of RMJM’s 396m-high Gazprom tower in St Petersburg and claims it has been misrepresented.Francesco Bandarin, who heads Unesco’s World Heritage Centre division, said: “I never said any of these things, nor did my associates, and ...
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OpinionFight over Gazprom tower symbolises modern Russian politics
As the row escalates over RMJM’s controversial tower, Elaine Knutt visits St Petersburg and discovers Gazprom is caught up in wider political battles
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NewsGazprom woos international media over St Petersburg skyscraper
In the battle to win over the press, even the British consulate was drafted in
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FeaturesLottery’s Living Landmarks need more dignity
Public buildings are, of course, built for the public.
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NewsDefiant RMJM tells Unesco to back off
Gazprom tower decision belongs to the city, says architect