All From the Archive articles – Page 8

  • Tectonic House by Roger and Martyn Dean
    Features

    Coming home from a fantasy world

    2011-04-15T00:00:00Z

    As well as his album covers, Roger Dean designed this Tectonic House for 1981’s Ideal Home exhibition

  • 1884 Lingotto competition in Turin by James Stirling
    Features

    Balloon debate

    2011-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Stirling & Wilford’s 1984 entry for the Lingotto factory competition in Turin showed James Stirling taking to the skies

  • Amanda Levete
    Features

    Out of time: Amanda Levete

    2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

    In 1985 the youthful architect made her first appearance in the pages of BD.

  • Cedric Price's designs for an unbuilt aviary for the Royal Veterinary College in Camden Town
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    Perfect perch

    2011-03-25T13:53:00Z

    In 1983 Cedric Price designed a less famous aviary, which was never built

  • Alvin Boyarsky mounted an elephant to celebrate the revival of the AA Carnival
    Features

    Circus tricks

    2011-03-18T00:00:00Z

    In 1978 Alvin Boyarsky mounted an elephant to celebrate the revival of the AA Carnival, launching a party that took a memorable turn

  • Leonard Manasseh
    Features

    Seats of learning

    2011-03-11T00:00:00Z

    At 1982’s Sit exhibition, 20th century chairs were modelled by famous names such as Leonard Manasseh

  • Adolf Loos
    Features

    Loos fitting

    2011-03-04T00:00:00Z

    We remember the sharp-eyed Viennese polemicist Adolf Loos

  • Bedbourne, Legoland
    Review

    Plastic surgery

    2011-02-28T08:41:00Z

    In 1980 BD found Legoland’s version of England unreal and too pretty

  • Moscow Olympic velodrome, 1980
    Features

    These things go in cycles

    2011-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Moscow’s 1980 Olympic Velodrome has an uncannily familiar feel.

  • Basil Spence's £3.2 million Knightsbridge Barracks
    Features

    Hyde and seek

    2011-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Forty years before the Candy brothers, Basil Spence was bringing controversy to Hyde Park

  • Southgate School, Enfield
    Features

    Negative response

    2011-02-04T08:12:00Z

    Residents gather at Southgate School in Enfield to protest a proposed extension by Rock Townsend

  • Father Francis Xavier Martin
    Features

    Fighting a good fight

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Father Francis Xavier Martin led the 1979 protest against development of Dublin’s Wood Quay

  • Roger Zogolovitch
    Features

    Extreme exhibiting: Roger Zogolovitch

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    In 1988 Roger Zogolovitch was showing off fish tanks and taxis at CZWG’s English Extremists exhibition at the RIBA

  • Stony-faced Riba secretary Patrick Harrison, pictured here with angry cleaner Kaye Bailey
    Features

    Crossing the line

    2011-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Portland Place keeps on going in 1979 despite a picket by Riba staff

  • Prince William’s new home awaits
    Features

    Prince William’s new home awaits

    2010-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Neil May, aged five, won a Riba Drawings Collection competition with this house for the prince

  • Revolting students
    Features

    Revolting students

    2010-12-10T00:00:00Z

    In 1985 architecture students took to the streets to protest against education cuts, a witty precursor of today’s demonstrations

  • The architect of Heathrow airport and Liverpool's cathedral also designed his own treehouse
    Features

    Green living

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    The architect of Heathrow airport and Liverpool’s cathedral also designed his own treehouse

  • Jailed architect Richard Lindsay first hit the headlines in 1998 when he was struck off Arb's register for his work on Kay Mossop's house
    Features

    Jailed architect had previous form

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Jailed architect Richard Lindsay first hit the headlines in 1998 when he was struck off Arb’s register for his work on Kay Mossop’s house

  • No stranger to controversy
    Features

    No stranger to controversy

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    When Southwark council wanted to build a pricy RMJM-designed townhall 31 years ago, the local community came out in force to protest

  • In 1983, van driver Ben Hayden put Home Office Nuclear guidelines to the test by constructing a regulation shelter.
    Features

    Debunking Nuclear claims

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    In 1983, van driver Ben Hayden put Home Office Nuclear guidelines to the test by constructing a regulation shelter