All Features articles – Page 155
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FeaturesWhere do we go from here?
Help! I've been made redundant but I still want to practise architecture
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FeaturesAre EU procurement rules crowding out small firms?
I created a social housing project working with a local community. I subsequently introduced the scheme to a local housing association. Having applied for planning permission, I have now been informed that if fees break a certain limit, the housing association is obliged under EU legislation to tender architectural services. ...
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FeaturesHow to budget IT as recession bytes
With budgets under consideration as April approaches, good IT planning can help maximise your use of human capital
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FeaturesBaby, you can drive my car
In the pre-Clarkson era of 1987, BD explored the relation between architects and their cars, including Eva Jiricna (pictured), Hugh Casson and others
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FeaturesHow architects can open up to online IT services
Architectural practices can spend less on IT and still get more from technology — just the ticket in a recession
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FeaturesDot to dot result: March 13 2009
The winner of last week’s competition was Andrew Hassell of Broadway Malyan in Birmingham, who identified Bruno Taut’s glass pavilion for the 1914 German Work Federation exhibition in Cologne.
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FeaturesNew projects by Nightingale, ORMS and Penoyre & Prasad
A round-up of the latest healthcare news
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FeaturesQ&A with Toh Shimazaki on its healthcare work
Toh Shimazaki’s Yuli Toh explains how the practice finds space for architectural expression in its healthcare projects
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FeaturesIce man cometh
In 1992, Frank Gehry celebrated his new chair range for Knoll Studio by dressing up in his ice hockey kit. A chacun...
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FeaturesLubetkin’s Finsbury Health Centre — the ideal that time forgot
Berthold Lubetkin’s Finsbury Health Centre was opened in 1938 with his assertion that “nothing was too good for ordinary people.” It was a pivotal moment in British social history that led to the development of the NHS. But now both the building and Lubetkin’s beliefs are under threat
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FeaturesThe latest products for healthcare buildings
LonmarkIntegrated control systemsJade BMS installed more than 80,000 integrated LonMark products at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough (pictured). They meet compatibility standards set by LonWorks. Sensing and controlling devices are integrated within large-scale developments. Compatible products controlling HVAC, lighting and alarms and so on, can be replaced or expanded ...
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FeaturesRIBA Bookshops’ selection of recent books on healthcare
Clare Kemsley, healthcare director at Gareth Hoskins Architects, reviews three books on healthcare design
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FeaturesMaggie’s Centre’s Laura Lee on the healing power of architecture
Laura Lee has commissioned some of the world’s top architects to design the Maggie’s Centres, and along the way she’s discovered the importance of architecture
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FeaturesCan architectural innovation be revived in large public-sector hospitals?
This month three architects consider the future of healthcare design
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FeaturesDot to Dot result: March 6
The winner of last week’s competition was David MacRitchie of Glasgow, who identified the Grand Arch at La Défense in Paris, by Johann Otto von Spreckelsen.
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FeaturesDot to dot: 13 March 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday March 18 for a chance to win a copy of Italo Rota: Projects, Works, Visions, 1997-2007, edited by Luca Molinari & Valeria Alebbi.
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FeaturesEdgar Gonzalez visits Niemeyer’s French Communist Party HQ
In our series in which architects talk about the building that has inspired them most, Edgar Gonzalez revisits Oscar Niemeyer’s Communist Party HQ building in Paris.
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FeaturesArcuk gets on top of its paperwork
The precedessor to Arb, the Architects’ Registration Council UK, wasn’t exactly a barrel of laughs either as this 1984 snap of registrar Ken Forder (left) and finance chair Max Hutchinson shows
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FeaturesDot to dot result: 27 february 2009
Last week’s winner was Anastasia Kapagerof of Sheppard Robson in Manchester, who identified Alvaro Siza’s faculty of architecture in Porto.
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FeaturesDot to dot: 06 March 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday March 11 for a chance to win a copy of Aldo Rossi: Drawings, edited by Germano Celant.