All Practices articles – Page 17
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ReviewOlafur Eliasson
The Scandinavian artist, working in collaboration with Kjetil Thorsen of Snohetta, has replaced Frei Otto as the designer of this year's Serpentine Pavilion. Heidi Ancell discovers more about him
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News
Chipperfield wins Norway museum
This £25 million competition-winning scheme by David Chipperfield Architects will be the practice’s first building in Scandinavia.
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FeaturesEnvironmental health professor Richard Jackson
‘Architects like evidence to support what they know intuitively’
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FeaturesKevin Carmody and Andy Groarke
The former David Chipperfield staffers have just come second place in the Prague library competition, won by Future Systems this week. Still less than a year old, their practice Carmody Groarke already has a growing portfolio of challenging projects.
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FeaturesArb chair Michael Starling
Michael Starling, who has just been voted the regulator's new chair, talks to James Rose
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NewsChipperfieldrethinks design for luxury Kensington flats
David Chipperfield Architects has made sweeping changes to one of its most significant British projects to date — a luxury residential development in west London, involving property developer Candy & Candy.
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FeaturesPeter Rogers
The UK Green Building Council launches today with the aim of transforming the built environment within the next ten years. Ellen Bennett asked the chairman Peter Rogers, co-founder of Stanhope, what it’s all about.
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FeaturesRoyal Gold Medalists Herzog and de Meuron
Swiss duo Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Mueron, who were awarded the Royal Gold Medal on Wednesday evening, speak out on competitions, FC Basel and handling the press
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NewsBlackpool competes for Libeskind’s Eden forest...
Blackpool plans to bounce back from losing in its bid to host the UK’s only supercasino by installing a Daniel Libeskind-designed indoor rainforest on the same site.
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NewsZaha’s latest performance
Zaha Hadid has released this image of the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre, one of five major institutions to be developed as a new cultural district on the Gulf state’s 270ha Saadiyat Island.
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ReviewReflections of a model citizen
Kester Rattenbury is simultaneously charmed and scared by Kas Oosterhuis’s ‘swarm’ architecture
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NewsChipperfield’s ‘car park’ flats rejected
David Chipperfield has been sent back to the drawing board to revise designs for his largest commission in the UK to date.
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FeaturesGuilty pleasures
As Erick van Egeraat puts the final touches to his first UK building, Middlesbrough’s new Art Gallery, he talks to Zoë Blackler about guilt, the Gateway and a life in hotel rooms.
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FeaturesThe client for Foster and Nouvel's Walbrook Square on the future of office buildings
‘The scheme will move into the next generation of office buildings,’ says Helen Gordon, Legal & General's property director
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TechnicalSurfaces: David Chipperfield's innovative internal glazing for an Amsterdam office
Silk screen prints of pencil patterns set in glass partitions give office workers both light and privacy.
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Opinion
Libeskind’s lesson on finding the positive
As Daniel Libeskind admits, much of what an architect does is performance. Buildings have to be defended linguistically as well as visually but few architects are as convincing as he is when it comes to communicating ideas. Yet, as he admitted last week, it can be a struggle.
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FeaturesAre you sitting comfortably?
Zoë Blackler meets Oren Safdie, whose bitter experience as an architecture student moved him to expose the profession in a play which has its European premier in London this week
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AnalysisTessa’s poor performance
Just days before outgoing ODA chairman Jack Lemley revealed his frustrations with the British government, BD met Olympics minister Tessa Jowell at the RIBA conference in Venice, and found she had a very shaky grip on her brief.
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OpinionCancer is challenge enough, Zaha
Like, I am sure, all too many of BD’s readers I have had several family members and friends who have faced life-threatening cancer. In dealing with this disease members of my family have benefited enormously from the level of care, compassion, useful information and good cheer offered at Richard Murphy’s ...