Daily News
Winner of 3DReid student prize revealed
The winner of UK’s largest student competition, run by 3DReid, has been revealed
Aspiring architects win trip to Shanghai
The winners of this year’s Architecture for Everyone programme, organised by the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust and RMJM, have been revealed
CABE supports Rowan Atkinson’s Meier house
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) is backing Rowan Atkinson’s proposal to build a Richard Meier-designed house in rural south Oxfordshire
Mayor to consider widening London’s South Bank
Architect Michael Davis’ proposal to widen London’s South Bank will go before London Mayor Boris Johnson next month
Graeme Massie to design Edinburgh Art Festival pavilion
Graeme Massie Architects is to design the pavilion for next year’s Edinburgh Art Festival
Mayor unveils new protected view policy for London
London Mayor Boris Johnson has published new guidance aimed at increasing and giving more clarity to the protection of the capital’s historic views
Building Study
Waste-to-energy processing plants
The profession must take this chance to redefine industrial architecture, says Hattie Hartman
‘Localism can, and does, improve the quality of the built environment’
In this personal account of urban regeneration in south London, Rory Olcayto juxtaposes a top-down development in Elephant and Castle with ground-up localism in Peckham
The Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, by Ellis Williams Architects
‘Simplicity, sophistication, and one or two surprises’, says Felix Mara. Photography by Hélène Binet.
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Top Ten London Architecture Units
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AR June 1975 − Willis-Faber and Dumas Building by Foster Associates, Ipswich, UK
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The renovation of Ghent’s public squares strives to incorporate both the old and the new
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Halley VI Antarctic Research Station by Hugh Broughton Architects, Brunt Ice Self, Antarctica
Ian Martin
Farewell to a jazz architecture legend, hello to a mighty hangover
Ian Martin explores some Portable Dystopia
Competitions
The Critics
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Architecture makes the most of its generous new space at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, with work that is less style, more substance, writes Gillian Darley
Ulf Hackauf: The black and white of green
Ulf Hackauf, principal of MVRDV’s think-tank The Why Factory, explains why his book advocates less hype and more ambition in building the future’s sustainable cities
Canterbury School of Architecture at the University for the Creative Arts
Canterbury shares a campus with a flourishing art college founded by the artist Sidney Cooper in 1882
Shanghai Expo 2010: As it happens
Experience the highlights, humidity and hype from the Shanghai Expo 2010 world trade fair. Hear from, among others, the 14-strong RIBA delegation as it enjoys the pavilions of different nations and also tries to find some work…
Working Detail: PassivHaus methodology
[WORKING DETAIL 28.02.08] PassivHaus methodology- could this be successfully imported to the UK?
Working Detail: Sevenoaks School, by Tim Ronalds Architects
[WORKING DETAIL 24.04.10] Auditorium roof construction
Working Detail: West Buckland School, by Rundell Architects
[WORKING DETAIL 13.05.10] Terraced seating and entrance staircase
Working Detail: Broadcasting Place, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
[WORKING DETAIL 22.04.10] Facade construction
Astragal gossip column
Alsop cursed by criticism
Last week, a second scathing attack took place on Will Alsop’s architecture within the walls of the Royal Academy
The AR turns Japanese
Website domain names can be tricky things.
Shanghai Expo 2010: As it happens
Experience the highlights, humidity and hype from the Shanghai Expo 2010 world trade fair. Hear from, among others, the 14-strong RIBA delegation as it enjoys the pavilions of different nations and also tries to find some work…
Hit the bottom
Everyone who shed a tear over the scheduled flattening of Owen Luder’s Get Carter car park in Gateshead, and then cheered when demolition was halted in March, had better look for another hanky
Gum crime
London mayor Boris Johnson convened a chewing-gum summit last week to jumpstart an attack on the gum litter estimated to cost the capital up to £10 million annually.
