All From the Archive articles – Page 12
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FeaturesAA examiners finally get the picture
Nigel Coates’ Diploma Unit 10 caused a major row in 1983 when the AA’s external examiners James Stirling and Edward Jones said the work produced was too experimental and refused to assess it.
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FeaturesPasmore prevails
Victor Pasmore helped defend his Apollo Pavilion at new town Peterlee from moves to have it demolished
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FeaturesThrough the glass ceiling
Brian Clarke has regularly graced BD’s pages — most recently as the chairman of the Architecture Foundation
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FeaturesRoyal assent?
He may have won the “royal” gold medal, but Richard Rogers has had scant support since from that neck of the woods
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FeaturesIssey aims for history
Issey Miyake is architects’ favourite fashion designer so naturally BD reviewed his first London show at the Boilerhouse in 1985, which it described as “theatrical, extravagant and glossy”
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FeaturesA diligent student of the upper crust
A relaxed-looking Mark Girouard was interviewed by BD after winning a WH Smith Award for his book, Life in the English Country House. During the interview he revealed how bored he’d been working on Pevsner’s Buildings of England series, and how his love of grand houses had started in his ...
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FeaturesQuinlan Terry proves fixed and eternal
The right-wing renaissance in architecture was already making ground 28 years ago
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FeaturesConran’s new town poaching
Terence Conran made the front page of BD in 1980 as he launched a new company
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NewsSpare a penny for the cuboctahedron?
A temporary building for the British Red Cross makes the news in 1976
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FeaturesHolidays in the sun at Skegness
One of Billy Butlin’s first holiday camps opened in 1936 on the north-west coast at Skegness, a chance for British holidaymakers to enjoy the delights of the seaside with modern comforts. BD was on the scene when this chalet was listed in May 1987
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FeaturesDwellings near the house of the Lord
In November 1980, then archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie took to the south London streets near his official Lambeth Palace residence to protest the Thatcher government’s cuts to public sector housebuilding and stock upgrades
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FeaturesTo Brighton for Congress with a queen
In 1987, Queen Noor of Jordan, an architect and planner, made BD’s front page with her address to the International Union of Architects’ 16th Congress, held at Brighton
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FeaturesJumpin' Jack Flash on life in the fast lane
Here’s future RIBA Jack Pringle and his very nice motor in 1987. Doesn’t he look as if he’s auditioning for a part in The Sweeney?
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FeaturesTravails of an inner city travelling machine
Date March 1987Architect Julyan WickhamCars are more than mere vehicles for getting from A to B, opined BD, in its series called Motors, before adding that architects — being aesthetes — don’t simply pick the most expensive on offer, but go for looks and design as well. Of course they ...
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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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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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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