All articles by Will Hunter – Page 5
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FeaturesPublic artists
Allies & Morrison speaks for a quieter, considerate architecture, but its recent public buildings have started conversations that will last for decades
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Features‘Giving it a go is important — something may come along’
Sarah Wigglesworth advises Mitchell Taylor Workshop that the secret of winning public buildings is having the courage to bear its architectural soul
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FeaturesPutting safety first
James Pickard of Cartwright Pickard goes back to the Health & Safety Executive’s headquarters in Bootle, Merseyside, a £57 million PFI project completed two years ago
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NewsGreen targets can be architects’ stepping stones
The stepped atrium of David Chipper-field’s BBC Scotland building has all the shock of the new.
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Features‘If you get on a framework, make friends’
Can a design-led practice appeal to play-it-safe social housing clients? Waugh Thistleton Architects tells PH Plus how it’s done
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FeaturesWhy Gordon’s eco-towns need electric dreams
Two years ago, we marvelled at Dongtan, the Shanghai eco-city.
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FeaturesLife’s a beach...almost
Extreme coastal sites often feature in Simon Conder’s imaginative portfolio. Now the BD award-winner is back at Dungeness, but his aspirations are leading him elsewhere.
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FeaturesThe difference between design and decoration
A conceptual gulf separates two firms featured in BD Magazine Interiors.
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Building StudyBox of delights
Jamie Fobert Architects has taken the Gherkin’s Konditor & Cook café to new heights with a hanging mezzanine ceiling
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FeaturesOn location
That’s where you’ll find yourself if you visit a Jestico & Whiles interiors project — in a glossy, glamorous alternate reality. And that’s where we went to meet three architects from the BD award-winning practice
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Features‘Imagine how people move and behave within a space’
When the mentors from RFK Architects met their inquisitors from Nick Cross Associates, the talk was of experience, expectations... and getting the smallest room right
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FeaturesVector Foiltec profile: Ben Morris and Stefan Lehnert on the future of ETFE
For 25 years Ben Morris and Stefan Lehnert of Vector Foiltec have been filling the world’s roof line with ETFE. Now green innovation is helping open up the technology to wider uses. Portrait by Ed Tyler
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FeaturesTroubles can’t stop London’s Olympic dream
What’s your gut feeling about the Olympics? Hoping for the best but mentally preparing for Olympic-sized humiliation if we end up with the worst?
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FeaturesSporting attitudes
Staging the 2012 Olympics will be the ultimate team event, but the architects who won stadium gold are sportingly well qualified. Plus, Peter Cook is proving a vital player
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Features60 seconds with...Kevin McClellan, project architect for the Serpentine pre-pavilion
McClellan, project architect behind Zaha Hadid's Serpentine pavilion - the setting for tonight's glamorous summer party - takes a break from preparations to speak to Elaine Knutt
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Building StudyHomes for the future
There were nine short-listed designs, one winner and several surprises in the BD/Mail on Sunday design competition to find a zero-carbon mass-market design.
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Building StudyDream green suburbs but in our cities
I’d love a new-build eco-house. And I speak as someone who always pictured themselves as a Victorian sort of person, Edwardian at a push.
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Features‘Refurbishment is true sustainability’
Hawkins Brown has been in demand for creative office conversions for nearly two decades, making it an ideal mentor for upcoming practice Hut Architecture Photographs by Edward Tyler
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FeaturesStop the bulldozers!
Campaigners are the best hope these buildings have of remaining part of London’s built heritage. Meet three foot soldiers in the fight to protect Britain’s buildings. Photographs by Edward Tyler
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FeaturesRetail therapist
Jon Emery counsels the use of cutting-edge architects for major retail developments. In an increasingly competitive market, his search for new talent continues.