Venice Takeaway

Meet the Venice Takeaway exhibitors

AlastairDonald — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:44:21 +0000

Video magazine Crane.tv has teamed up with Port magazine to produce this look at the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

‘Architecture without architects’

AlastairDonald — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:38:15 +0000

Photographer Iwan Baan talks about “architecture without architects” – how residents have built their own homes in the unfinished Torre David skyscraper in Caracas. With the 2012 Biennale Goldon Lion award going to the collaboration between Baan, Justin McGuirk and Urban-Think Tank for the Torre David/Gran Horizonte installation, what’s the future for architects?

Kill the Design Guide?

AlastairDonald — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:19:26 +0000

According to Nick Clegg, the latest proposed planning reforms will help ‘get Britain building again’. So is extending permitted development rights likely to prove a way of boosting housing supply and kick-starting the economy?

Preventing Suicide With Architecture?

AlastairDonald — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:06:07 +0000

In the aftermath of the death of film director Tony Scott, online magazine Atlantic Cities noted architectural interventions aimed at stopping such tragedies. But can – or even should – architecture be used to prevent suicide?

Standardisation and School Design

AlastairDonald — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:52:58 +0000

Is it possible to develop standardised school designs for dense & complex urban contexts?

The Housing Crisis

catesthill — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:25:35 +0000

Freeing up 1% of the green belt could provide 300,000 homes. Time to lose our myopic nostalgia and send in the bulldozers

Architecture and Power Games in China

catesthill — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:29:30 +0000

An incisive analysis by the acclaimed Sinologist Julia Lovell, to get inside the politics of architecture and city-making in China.

Center for Land Use Interpretation

catesthill — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:19:20 +0000

Lyra Kilston of Icon visits the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles, and finds ‘They encourage us to look closer, to really be there’.

RIBA v Bieber and Barbie: the battle for architecture’s future

catesthill — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:09:29 +0000

From the archive: The Royal Institute of British Architects’ report ‘The Future for Architects?’, from March 2011, was downbeat, but the profession retains its allure. As Jonathan Glancey finds out, even Justin Bieber wants to be one.

Roundhouse Foundations

catesthill — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:33:17 +0000

A short piece from BLDGBLOG highlights the discovery, earlier this year, of the remains of railway “roundhouses” outside York, England.