All articles by Katherine Hayes – Page 5
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Features
Call out for student bloggers
Are you a part 1, part 2 or part 2 student (or somewhere in between) and just itching to get things off your chest?
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Blogs
It’s a fleece, Jim but not as we know it.
News Junkie could be forgiven for thinking that Hollywood was scraping the bottom of the barrel of the apocalyptic, alien invasion format, when news reached us of a large fleece being spotted over Vancouver Museum.
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Review
Cultural Guide: January 31 to February 6
This week’s cultural guide bounces between critical infastructures and adventure playgrounds
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Blogs
The super yacht and the picnic table - Amanda Levete designs for James Murdoch
It was all cloak and dagger this week for News Junkie as an anonymous email arrived whispering of super yachts, architects and super-duper picnic tables.
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Review
Cultural guide: January 24-30
This week’s cultural guide peers into the neglected corners of Britain’s cities to find buildings that carry the weight of their own histories amongst other cultural treats
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Blogs
'Pre-fab' or 'Post-flap'
Forget pre-fab, it seems the latest trend may be better off titled ‘post-flap’.
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Blogs
Don’t call me Starchi-Shirley
News Junkie could be forgiven for thinking it was April 1st when the news broke that Frank Gehry had graced Playboy’s pages.
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Review
Cultural Guide: January 17- 22
The AA turn Soho into a magical land of impossible gadgetry and IKEA’s dirty design tricks to part you from your hard-earned cash are revealed, in this week’s cultural guide.
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Blogs
Lean Green Foster Machine
Norman Foster’s new toy is a lean green, century ahead of its time, utopian machine.
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Blogs
Noah and the Slinky
Looking like an unholy alliance of slinky spring and a set design from Waterworld; Russian architect Alexander Remizov seeks to make a Kevin Coster out of us all with a prototype design he calls ‘The Ark’.
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Review
Cultural Guide: January 10- 16
This week’s cultural guide takes us to a post apolocalyptic New York and teaches us a lesson on politics, power and cities
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Blogs
All change please, this city terminates here
News Junkie is accustomed to strange and otherworldly ideas but there are few more surreal than this one…
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Blogs
Papier Mache Parametrics
Word reaches news junkie’s ears from the blogosphere that our own favourite starchitect, Zaha Hadid, has been sculpturally immortalised.
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Review
Cultural Guide: January 3-9
This week’s cultural guide delves into the realms of science fiction and environmental catastrophe at Chetwood’s Green Room before tuning into the soothing tones of Puccini at the Barbican.
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Review
Cultural Guide: December 20- 26
This week’s cultural guide is getting in the swing of the festive season with a little samurai action at the Barbican before peacefully exploring the art of placemaking.
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Review
Cultural Guide: December 13-19
This week’s cultural guide takes us to the troubled streets of revolutionary Bucharest before stepping back in time with Simon Starling at the Camden Arts Centre
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Blogs
Snow white and the three Little Napoleons
Sleepy, sneezy, dopey, grumpy, doc, happy, bashful and… Daniel Libeskind?
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Review
Cultural Guide: December 6- 12
This week’s cultural guide reaches for the stars literally, with the BBC’s ’Climbing Great Buildings’ and Milky Way vision of Milton Keynes
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Multimedia
Interview with Jason Bruges: The ARC Show Preview Event
BD’s technical editor, Amanda Birch interviews Jason Bruges, Creative Director- Jason Bruges Studio, to find out what it is like to be an artist within the public realm.
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Multimedia
Film screening: Greener Buildings, Greener Behaviours and Suffolk One
BD’s sneak preview of two short films on sustainability, CRC energy efficiency and a state of the art school in Ipswich airing on Information TV.