Foster dragged into Wembley legal row
8 January, 2009
lawsuit over access to architectural staff could signal wider battle
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Foster dragged into Wembley legal row
Cabe slams poor spaces at KPF’s Victoria interchange
8 January, 2009
Cabe has criticised Kohn Pederson Fox’s latest designs for the £2 billion Victoria Transport Interchange scheme in London, saying it has major concerns with the project’s urban design principles.
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Battersea developer warns against blocking shorter tower
8 January, 2009
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Jean Nouvel’s $400m Los Angeles tower put on hold
8 January, 2009
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EH legal spending soars past £1.6 million
7 January, 2009
Picture of the Day
Future Systems' London Routemaster bus
8 January, 2009
This striking design is Future Systems' vision of how the new London Routemaster bus should look.
Multimedia
Schwartz and Alsop debate the role of landscape architects (video)
7 January, 2009
Can Martha Schwartz change Will Alsop's famously acerbic views on landscape architects?
The James Stirling Memorial lecture by Studio Works (video)
6 January, 2009
Watch and listen to Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray of Studio Works give the James Stirling Memorial lecture at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA).
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New perspectives on the Thames (video)
5 January, 2009
Editor's Choice
Shortlist for London's new US embassy revealed
5 January, 2009
Thomas Mayne's Morphosis Architects, SOM, KPF and Richard Meier & Partners are among nine firms on the all-American shortlist to design Britain’s £275 million new US embassy.
Rays of hope within the gloom
19 December 2008
BD’s news editor Will Hurst looks at how the economy has dominated the news in 2008, while we ask some of the people in the public eye what they consider the year’s most important developments
Comment
New year, new uncertainties
19 December 2008
The problems of the economy may be making the government more responsive to its critics in other areas
Legend of Utzon sails into the sunset
19 December 2008
The saga of Jørn Utzon’s greatest legacy is part myth, part Bergman epic
Buildings
The Year in Review: Designs to beat the architecture downturn blues
19 December 2008
We might have had a bleak end to 2008, but it was actually a good year for splendid buildings and inspiring architectural exhibitions, says Ellis Woodman. We also asked 18 major players in the business to pick out their highlights
Technical
How we cracked it: Oslo-based Various Architects’ temporary performance space for a world tour
19 December 2008
How Norway’s Various Architects created a lightweight, demountable performance venue for client Arts Alliance
Getting up to speed with London 2012 Velodrome
12 December 2008
Hopkins Architects’ Mike Taylor and Expedition Engineering’s Andrew Weir talk to Catherine Croft about the challenges of designing with bikes in mind
IT
PDFs ready to enter the third dimension
19 December 2008
The Adobe Acrobat PDF has become the common file format for electronic publication of text and image-based documents. What isn’t as commonly appreciated is that the PDF file format now supports 3D objects.
The shape of things to come in building information modelling
19 December 2008
A new era of collaborative design and project management could be ushered in by building information modelling
Readers' Ads
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20 November, 2008
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10 November, 2008
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Reviews
Saul Steinberg’s skewed perspectives
12 December 2008
Architect manqué Saul Steinberg’s work is a blast, says Saul Metzstein
Bernard Tschumi’s New Acropolis Museum
12 December 2008
Bernard Tschumi presented his New Acropolis Museum at the RIBA last week, and took Greece’s bid to win back the Elgin Marbles to the next level.
Heterotopia
Dot to Dot: 19 December 2008
19 December 2008
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday January 7 for a chance to win a copy of Talking Architecture: Interviews With Architects by Hanno Rauterberg.
1980s yuppies at play
19 December 2008
When the refurbishment of some Turkish baths in Motherwell led to speculation about the outcome of the 1983 general election
More miscellany including Dot to Dot, readers' ads and From the Archive
Student Space
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Part-time architecture education in question after EU ruling
Part-time architecture education in question after EU ruling
18 November, 2008
Arb is seeking legal advice over a new EU directive that could prevent those who studied part time being recognised as architects.
Students hit first by recession
24 October 2008
Record numbers of graduates are chasing fast-disappearing jobs in recession-struck practices. Will Henley lends an ear
Architecture Awards
Young Architect of the Year: Hackett Hall McKnight
31 October 2008
Belfast-firm Hackett Hall McKnight have topped a strong shortlist to win the Young Architect of the Year 2008 award.
The Architect and Young Architect of the Year Awards 2008: The Video
14 November, 2008
Watch the video of the Young Architect and Architect of the Year 2008 awards.
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Richard Feilden Award: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
31 October 2008
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Education: Penoyre & Prasad
31 October 2008
