All From the Archive articles – Page 14
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FeaturesDéjà vu all over again
In a special meta edition, we look back at a piece by BD’s then editor Martin Pawley, who was explaining the 1975 housing slump by contrasting it with a late 19th century housing slump
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FeaturesLiberty’s tarnished torch
As the US convulses itself in Dynasty-style shenanigans in the run-up to November’s presidental poll, here’s an image of Liberty’s torch being cleaned in preparation for the bicentennial in the seventies
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Features...but where was James Stirling?
Thirty years ago, the RIBA provoked James Stirling into his own personal boycott of its conference in Liverpool
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FeaturesDyson with disaster
An early effort from product designer James Dyson — still battling to get his design school in Bath off the ground — won a BD award back in the seventies
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FeaturesYoung lion in waiting
In its tenth anniversary issue, BD celebrated the British architectural avant-garde and picked the cream of the crop — including a tyro Will Alsop, then only 34
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FeaturesGone with the wind — and the waves
In the week that Weston-super-Mare’s Grand Pier was destroyed by fire, BD looks back at previous weather reports
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FeaturesCommunal living gives way to en suite
Aston University’s 1971 high-rise student bedsits, which are shortly to be demolished
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FeaturesRIBA designs homes fit for a prince
Back in the 1980s, the royals were more frequent visitors to the RIBA than they are today.
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FeaturesPowell & Moya put spirit in the Skylon
As Jack Pringle campaigns to get Skylon rebuilt, BD captures Skylon’s original architect, Powell & Moya, in a moment of triumph
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FeaturesSpaced out
In 1980, BD ran this photo of a happy young couple in their spatially challenged kitchen to accompany a story about starter homes.
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FeaturesSmokin’ Ron’s celebrated imagination
Different times, different habits for Archigram’s Ron Herron
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FeaturesMiles pays attention to detail
60 years on, Mies gets down and dirty on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive
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FeaturesGoldfinger tower wins over the punters
Does the listing 10 years ago of a concrete housing estates, including Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower, provide hope for Robin Hood Gardens?
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FeaturesThatcher’s tunnel vision
The entente cordiale between Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterand led to the link-up of the French and British rail systems
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FeaturesFoster banks on the public
Norman Foster’s Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation HQ, July 1985
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FeaturesAn office adjacent to the end of history
Philip Johnson’s office next to the WTC, circa 1973
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FeaturesCreator of the lost Ark
Ralph Erskine stands in front of his Ark office building in Hammersmith