Digging into the archives – Page 17
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Marconi building near Livorno, Italy
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Giulia Pannochia. She is the first winner of the Gloria e Marco (GeM) Award
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2008
The stand-out entries in this year’s Housing Design Awards were often developed by councils taking control of their own housing in the face of huge demand. Back in 2008, softening prices meant that nobody seemed very interested in residential.
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FeaturesImage of the week: Deal or no deal?
More than 100,000 people marched through central London last Saturday to demand a final vote on any UK exit deal
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Kensington, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Ellisha Seagroatt, architectural junior at Calfordseaden
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2006
This week we interviewed Lib Dem leader Vince Cable. We found another political interview, in Building’s dusty archive
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FeaturesOnline poll: Heathrow's third runway
This week’s poll: Will Heathrow’s third runway ever actually be built?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Glasgow’s loss
Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building, an iconic art nouveau building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, was destroyed by fire on 15 June
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Monier Road, Hackney Wick, London
This #buildingdoodle sketch is by Tom McAviney, project architect, Pitman Tozer Architects
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2009
All the current economic and financial challenges facing construction led us to ask which chief executives are up to the mark this week.
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FeaturesOnline poll: Cladding ban
This week’s poll: Do you agree with the government’s proposal to ban combustible materials in cladding systems?
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FeaturesOnline poll: Future of planning
This week’s poll: Is our planning system no longer fit for purpose?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Bare necessities
Intelligent underwear and helmets for construction workers that come equipped with sensors to measure vitals such as body temperature
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Bialik Square, Tel Aviv, Israel
This #buildingdoodle sketch is by Félicie Krikler, director at Assael Architecture
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2009
Although our architecture correspondent was a big fan of Westminster Abbey’s new slinky glass-walled staircase, which has also won the popular vote, plans to overhaul the landmark haven’t always been so popular
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FeaturesOnline poll: Russian revolution
This week’s poll: Has Russia done itself proud with its World Cup football stadiums?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Cross purposes
Last weekend the spans were lifted into position for a new 135m-wide public footbridge connecting business campus Chiswick Park to the eponymous tube station in west London
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Bartlett Park, Poplar, east London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Archie Bashford, a landscape architect at Levitt Bernstein
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 1886
As we look at the Social Value Act and consider whether it will encourage firms to be more sustainable and ethical, we look back to a time where the deserving poor had to rely on the generosity of rich philanthropists
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Leicester City FC training ground
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Lee Nightingale, director at KSS Design Group
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FeaturesOnline poll: Shockwaves
This week’s poll: If another economic downturn hit now, would the industry be better placed to withstand it than it was a decade back?