All Features articles – Page 223
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FeaturesLifelong learners
Feilden Clegg Bradley, BD’s Education Architect of the Year, has rich historical links with the sector and a conviction that good design enlightens learning
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FeaturesSupplier interview
‘We’re popular with schools that have an environmental conscience’ - Lindsey Parnell, Interfaceflor European president
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FeaturesSchool of hard knocks
When Behrouz Shomali from Architects Co-Partnership returned to a robust example of PFI design, he found a scheme short on polish but popular with users
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FeaturesSchool science gets seductive makeover
Three teams of architects are set to take science out of its uninspiring home in school laboratories and into spaces that are altogether more exciting, in a bid to encourage uptake of science at A-level.
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The numbers game
14 is the amount of UK public sector carbon emissions attributable to the schools sector, according to a ‘Sustainable Schools’ discussion paper from the British Council for Schools Environments.
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Features‘Make the most of everything you’ve got’
Dive Architects gets a crash course in how to land its first education building from the experienced duo at Meadowcroft Griffin
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FeaturesAre schools for the future just monuments to egotism?
A few years ago I went back to my south London grammar school to speak at the annual prize giving. Before the actual event I pottered round classrooms and corridors in a haze of nostalgia. Everything seemed pretty much the same. The mould I remembered on the shower room walls ...
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FeaturesSussed school DVD
BBM Sustainable Design’s new art and science extension for St Pancras RC School in Lewes, East Sussex, is the star of a DVD being sent to every primary in the country.
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Are tailor-made schools a distracting indulgence?
At the two secondary schools revisited in BD Magazine, both headteachers had a guiding influence on the design.
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FeaturesSoho Loft, New York by I-Beam Design
A new york loft for an art collection is built around a glowing art work created especially for the site.
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FeaturesThe Creative Prison
Will Alsop with artists Shona Illingworth and Jon Ford. The Creative Prison: a revolutionary new approach to the design of future prisons which involves the inmates themselves and challenges current social attitudes towards rehabilition.
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FeaturesElizabeth House, Waterloo, London competition entry by Make
An elegant arch-shaped tower that traces the curve of the River Thames and the London Eye.
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Features‘Future’ classroom stuck in timewarp
A fully mobile and portable ICT classroom designed under the DfES’ 2003 Classroom of the Future initiative is stuck in a fabricator’s yard, waiting for services to be laid at its first host school in Camden, north London.
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FeaturesTop of the class: where are they now?
Maintaining a steady flow of talented young blood is vital, and BD’s annual Class of the Year Awards identify the cream of the architectural graduates. Heidi Ancell looked up some of the winners from the past two years
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FeaturesBlocking technique
A curving library tower in the ETFE-covered courtyard of the new middle school at St Lawrence College in Kent was built in lightweight aircrete blocks from Tarmac Topblock.
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FeaturesEveryman Cinema by Mueller Kneer Associates
Mueller Kneer Associates used a “Cinema Club” concept as the basis for the radical remodeling of its Hampstead site.