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Dot to dot: 12 March 2010

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer with your address by 10am on Wednesday March 17 for a chance to win a copy of Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for an Emergent Humanity, by Buckminster Fuller

Dot to dot results: 05 March 2010

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The winner of last week’s competition was Becki Brookes of Birmingham, who identified Jean Prouvé’s Maison Tropicale

Bruce Graham's towering reputation

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

SOM’s Bruce Graham showed his RIBA audience Chicago from the skies

Just can’t stop — Pringles and the aquatics centre

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Word reaches Boots that people living near the Olympic Park are divided over the nickname for Zaha Hadid’s aquatics centre

Boots - 12 March 2010

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Toby Paterson exhibition: Consensus and Collapse

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Glaswegian artist Toby Paterson’s fascination with desolate fragments of cities helps us to re-examine architecture’s visual and social role

Building a Library 2: In Praise of Shadows by By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library

Let’s draw a veil over this idea

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Much like Jonathan Glancey (March 5) I was shocked when made aware of the proposals to partly transform the RIBA into a “wedding venue” (News February 26)

Shoal patch

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

I would like to clarify that the Shoal at Stratford (News February 19) is not intended to hide the Stratford Centre but — together with the less talked about public realm improvements across the wider town centre — to set a confident tone...

Object lessons

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Re “Cabe told assessors to destroy scores” (News February 26), I have experienced a similar practice of being required to return sheets with scores and notes at meetings called to consider submissions for public art projects

Classic error

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In case BD readers think I have gone mad, I most certainly did not write “Paternoster Square never goes away, it has the longest pedigree of all the styles” in your 40th anniversary celebration

No to Battersea

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Your story “Cabe backing fuels Viñoly Battersea application” (News March 26) quotes Cabe director of design Diane Haigh saying: “we have reviewed [the proposals] six times… this has resulted in a strong scheme which Cabe is confident will...

No entrance?

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

With reference to your article on Sanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne (Works March 5), the bottom left photograph on page 28 is subtitled “A freestanding canopy marks the entrance at the centre of the plan”

Out of the picture

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

As an archivist I find you bring a very salutary element of architectural reality into a very large architectural archive where “modern” mainly refers to the 1930s-1960s

Correction

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Alan Short (“Glass buildings are set to become pariahs” News March 5) is professor of architecture at Cambridge University, not head of architecture as stated.

Letters to the Editor - 12 March 2010

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RIBA’s student hardship fund is set to run dry

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:24:00 GMT

Record number of applications means institute will turn down people in genuine need

London practice pays £5.71 an hour

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:01:00 GMT

A London architect is offering short-term staff an hourly rate of just £5.71 — below the minimum wage of £5.80

Mipim hopes overseas projects will lure 18,000

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:35:00 GMT

Attendance set to match last year’s as property fair takes industry’s pulse

Amin Taha loses fees to fraudster

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:05:00 GMT

Amin Taha Architects has revealed it is £60,000 out of pocket after falling victim to one of the most wanted fraudsters in the country

Parliament to grill HCA boss over Kickstart

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:16:00 GMT

BD’s Come Clean on Kickstart campaign scored a political coup this week as the communities & local government select committee announced it would grill the government and the Homes & Communities Agency on the matter, while the shadow housing...

Agency could veto Howells’ M5 services

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:20:00 GMT

Glenn Howells’ groundbreaking motorway service station proposal for the M5 could be vetoed by the Highways Agency over fears it will become a tourist destination in its own right

Sustainable housing competition

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:20:00 GMT

A design competition to build 70 energy-efficient homes has been launched in Northern Ireland

Cabe drops backing for Europan

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:22:00 GMT

Cabe, which has facilitated the Europan competition in the UK for the last six years, has announced it will not be backing Europan 11

Aukett’s staff take £750,000 salary cut

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:27:00 GMT

A drastic round of salary cuts at Aukett Fitzroy Robinson is expected to save the firm more than £750,000 this year — around 5% of the firm’s business

Wisdom of Solomon

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:29:00 GMT

The King Solomon Academy, by Ian Ritchie Architects, has been re-established on a site formerly occupied by North Westminster Community School in London. It incorporates existing grade II* listed buildings by Leonard Manasseh built in 1959-60

This week's ups & downs

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:31:00 GMT

Hot and not

Hare’s curved roof is set to hit a high note

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:31:00 GMT

Work starts on site next month on Nicholas Hare’s workshop in Essex for the Royal Opera House’s backstage team

Rogers joins campaign to save steel bungalows

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:55:00 GMT

Leading architects and developers including Richard Rogers, Ron Arad, Glenn Howells and Peter Palumbo have joined a campaign to save two rare 1970s bungalows in north London by architects Robin Spence and Robin Webster

Wind turbines being installed in Elephant & Castle Strata tower

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:00 GMT

Work to install three wind turbines at a huge new Hamiltons-designed tower in south London is due to be completed next week

AOC takes a concrete approach to updating the Edwardian semi

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT

AOC has completed work on a £420,000 project to overhaul an Edwardian semi-detached family home in Golders Green, north-west London

Thames Gateway home numbers fall short

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:51:00 GMT

Only around a third of the new homes promised under the government’s flagship Thames Gateway scheme have been built as the project passes its half-way mark.

Filling the gaps in our cities

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

All around the country sites are standing empty. Now it’s time for developers to step up and find alternative uses for their land

The profession has divided us

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

There are still places where architecture is a communal experience

We can cut emissions by 60% by 2030

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Architects and builders can help bring about major change in London’s energy use

Can the Europan architecture competition work in the UK?

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Yes, it is one of the only opportunities for young architects, says Dominic Papa, while Hans van der Heijden thinks it needs Cabe’s backing

Photographer Rankin’s Annroy building by Trevor Horne Architects

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A series of doors and windows products have been used in Trevor Horne Architects’ refurbishment of a 1960s office block in Kentish Town, which includes a photographer’s studio, private apartments and a penthouse with nearly frameless views...

Patel Taylor Architects’ Lowther School Children’s Centre

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Patel Taylor’s Children’s Centre in Barnes, south-west London, is the first stage of a project that aims to boost the whole of the local community

James Soane’s inspiration: Liverpool Playhouse extension

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The glamour and confidence of a sixties extension to a 19th century theatre had an early influence on James Soane of Project Orange