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Dot to dot results: March 12

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Last week’s winner was Thomas Corrie of London NW6, who identified Hopkins’ Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre

Dot to Dot: 19 March 2010

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer with your postal address by 10am on Wednesday March 24 for a chance to win a copy of Eero Saarinen: the Architecture of Multiplicity, by Antonio Román.

A lot of hot air at the RIBA

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Mark Fisher’s Angie shows the way to the institute’s inflatables show

This week's ups & downs

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Hot and not

Up in the air over Alsop

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Momentary panic at the RIBA Awards office when it received two entries for Chips, the Manchester apartments designed by Will Alsop

Boots - 19 March 2010

Sat, 30 Dec 1899 00:00:00 GMT

Boots - 19 March 2010

Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Before its reopening, Horace Walpole’s idiosyncratic home is being celebrated by the V&A

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Design Museum exhibition puts the stress on sustainability and social purpose

Anjalendran: Architect of Sri Lanka

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

David Robson’s book gives little hint of the political context behind the architecture of Tamil architect Chelvadurai Anjalendran

Building a Library 3: A history of architecture: Settings and rituals by Spiro Kostof

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

Science meets architecture at computing conference

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Architecture and Unconventional Computing Conference, organised by Neil Spiller, gave architects and scientists insight into the future of buildings

Time to explore the world of browsers

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Under new EU rules computer users will now be offered a choice of web browsers, but which ones are the best for architects?

Devaluing the profession

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In the summer I had an interview with James Parritt, who claimed Parritt Leng had plenty of work and was not feeling the recession like other practices, contrary to partner Kuan Leng’s comments (News March 12)

Cheap labour

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

During the last major downturn I applied for a job advertised for a part II architect. During the interview I was told that my role would involve mostly dealing with the public on the telephone

Ease planning

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Last week’s leader berates developers for not getting on with developing derelict brownfield sites

Marriage value

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Katie Wilmot (Letters March 12) should relax. Architecture is being served by the use of 66 Portland Place for weddings and other non-RIBA functions

Living proof

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

What a shame that Austin Williams (Debate March 5) uses environmental awareness as a negative point in the future of the architectural profession

Men of vision

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

It is with great sadness that I read last week about the deaths of two of architecture’s greatest minds: Bruce Graham and Raimund Abraham (News March 12)

Getting the hump

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Last week’s BD featured a large photograph of a Children’s Centre in Barnes (Works March 12)

Correction

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A review of Farshid Moussavi’s book The Function of Form (Culture March 5) incorrectly described Moussavi as a former partner in Foreign Office Architects

Letters to the editor - 19 March 2009

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Letters to the editor - 19 March 2009

Ruth Reed refuses to condemn low payers

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:10:00 GMT

RIBA president Ruth Reed has refused to condemn practices that pay part II and III students the minimum wage or less

Mitchell Taylor refurbishes farm house for Holburne director

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:36:00 GMT

Mitchell Taylor Workshop’s £300,000 house extension and refurbishment project for Alexander Sturgis, director of Bath’s Holburne Museum of Art, has started on site

MPs quiz minister over Kickstart

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:55:00 GMT

Housing minister John Healey has come under fire from fellow MPs for the first time over the Kickstart programme and its funding for “grotty” homes

Top names join race for Guy’s Hospital

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:59:00 GMT

A star-studded list of architects including Foster & Partners, Zaha Hadid, Rafael Viñoly, Rogers Stirk Harbour, Hopkins and Will Alsop are hoping to design a £90 million hospital building in London

Planners to consider Royal Academy extension

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Plans by David Chipperfield and Julian Harrap to expand the Royal Academy of Arts are to face planners this week

Gormley hotel guests can sleep in a sculpture

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:49:00 GMT

Reardon Smith Architects has teamed up with Antony Gormley to design a boutique hotel where guests will be able to sleep within a sculpture

Hare academy given green light

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:26:00 GMT

Nicholas Hare Architects’ All Saints Academy (pictured) in Cheltenham has been given the green light by councillors

Grimshaw wins work in Wales and South Korea

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:29:00 GMT

Grimshaw was celebrating this week after being appointed to design two landmark projects on different sides of the globe

Brixton museum to celebrate UK’s black heritage

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:49:00 GMT

Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects working with Trace Architecture has drawn up plans for the first museum dedicated to the UK’s black cultural heritage

Wales hits the heights

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:28:00 GMT

Work has finished on Wales’s tallest building, a 29-storey residential block by Latitude Architects

Heritage groups line up for battle of Waterloo

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:41:00 GMT

Battle lines have been drawn over the future of Waterloo Station, with architecture minister Margaret Hodge due to deliver her verdict on a listing bid by English Heritage within weeks.

Hard times breed hard times for the Architects Benevolent Society

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:51:00 GMT

The recession is draining funds from the Architects Benevolent Society, as the charity prepares to reorganise its investments

Housing’s loss is hotel world’s gain

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:16:00 GMT

Work has been completed on a tower by Maccreanor Lavington near St George’s Circus in south London

Flacq to be wound up as directors and staff join Arup Associates

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:35:00 GMT

Award-winning practice Flacq is to be wound up after its four founders agreed to take up director posts at Arup Associates.

Victims of a buyers’ market

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

An oversupply of architects has brought us to the shockingly low pay levels we are now witnessing

Our future’s been outsourced

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

As Tesco starts to recruit from India, British architects should be worried

Cushion-plumpers will inherit the earth

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Those flexible, responsive designers of the future? They’re already here

Would you work for less than the minimum wage?

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

No, architects must take a united stand, says Alison Coutinho; while Emma Perry thinks sometimes it’s necessary to get a foot in the door

Why might my practice be affected by the forthcoming Bribery Act?

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

What does the forthcoming Bribery Act mean for me?

Highwood Court housing in Harlesden by SUSD

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

SUSD’s nine-house development on an enclosed site in north-east London disregards conventional spatial arrangements to create housing of joyful intricacy