The Architectural Review articles from May 2005

The Architectural Review archives from May 2005

Designed for healing.(view)(Editorial)
May 1, 2005... Of all the branches of architecture, hospital design presents the greatest of challenges. It addresses the human dimension from birth to death; the architect must create a building primarily for people, but one in which form follows medical...

State modern?(outrage)
May 1, 2005... Shortly before her tragic death last year, Britain's leading expert on Russian Art and Architecture, Catherine Cooke, introduced Rob Gregory to the hidden treasures currently at risk in Moscow. The Narkomfin Apartments, by Ginzburg and Milinis,...

Kenzo Tange (1913-2005).(outrage)(Obituary)
May 1, 2005... The influence of Kenzo Tange, who died on 22 March, aged 91 years, has permeated Japanese architecture for well over half a century. He became the leading Modernist architect in the country from the 1950s and taught generations of younger...

Piano transforms LACMA.(outrage)(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)(Renzo Piano)
May 1, 2005... Following a 40-year succession of mis-steps, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has finally commissioned architecture worthy of its encyclopaedic collections of classic and contemporary Asian, European, and American arts. These are ranked...

Banking on Frankfurt.(outrage)(Sauerbruch Hutton)
May 1, 2005... For an architectural studio with a small oeuvre, within limited geographical boundaries, Sauerbruch Hutton have an exceptionally high profile, due perhaps to their concentrated architectural vocabulary which makes their projects instantly...

Joan Collins meets Dr Caligari.(outrage)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... With an inaugural gig by Lou Reed, Porto's new concert hall, the Casa da Musica, is finally up and running (above, bottom picture). Designed by OMA, it manifests a characteristically challenging approach to historic notions of music theatres,...

Adding to Hadid in Singapore.(outrage)
May 1, 2005... The idea that design coding is the exclusive product of the American New Urbanists is a myth propagated by people who fear that coding is a synonym for neo-classical architecture reminiscent of the antebellum South. Coding can take many forms,...

AR Awards.(outrage)(Architectural Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... The Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architecture are entering their seventh cycle. Inaugurated in 1999, the awards are intended to bring wider international recognition to a talented new generation of architects and designers under 45....

Diary.(Calendar)
May 1, 2005... AR'S CHOICE OF CURRENT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS BELGIUM LCM ARCHITECTS Until 19 June De Singel, Antwerp With an outlook somewhere between Barragan and Koolhaas, Laboratorio de la Ciudad de Mexico (LCM) is a...

Doctors' orders: healthcare architecture, too often a functionalist response to short-term budgeting, should increasingly be based on the wealth of evidence about how patients respond to different physical environments.
May 1, 2005... What sort of hospitals do we want in the twenty-first century, how might they differ from those of the recent past, and why would we change them? In March 2002, AR carried an article on evidence-based design which showed that certain...

Light touch: a new addition to St Thomas's Hospital, the Evelina Children's Hospital exploits space, light and colour.(Hopkins Architects)
May 1, 2005... Megastructure or campus? This is a key question for architects engaged in hospital design in the UK, where a combination of technophilia and response to short-term clinical fashion has for decades resulted in too many hospitals resembling...

Urban healing: a maternity and children's hospital has an impassive urban presence concealing a rich interior life.
May 1, 2005... To a geographic diversity that encompasses such disparate locales as Stockholm, San Sebastian and Los Angeles, Rafael Moneo can now add programmatic diversity. Best known for an impressive repertoire of arts and religious buildings (for...

Healing in the heartland: this regional hospital in Canada's interior connects with light and nature.(Toronto-based Salter Farrow Pilon, architects for the project)
May 1, 2005... Thunder Bay lies in a remote part of north-eastern Ontario, on the edge of Lake Superior. Conditions in the Canadian interior are not for the faint hearted, with temperatures fluctuating from -45 deg C during winter months to 35 deg C in...

Healthy serendipity: environmental concerns played a key role in the design of this new medical complex.(Patrick H. Dollard Discovery Health Center)
May 1, 2005... Located on a rural site near the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, the Patrick H. Dollard Discovery Health Center is a new diagnostic and treatment centre providing outpatient primary and specialist medical and dental services. Owned and...

Kettle's Yard: Kettle's Yard is one of Cambridge's most popular cultural venues. Established by Jim Ede in 1957, its collection displays an extensive range of modern art. Likewise its buildings are an eclectic mix of old and new, with Leslie Martin's celebrated extensions. This year Jamie Fobert has been appointed as the architect for the next phase.(process)
May 1, 2005... Kettle's Yard was once four tumbledown cottages in Cambridge. Today it is one of the City's most treasured cultural venues. In a city surrounded by the formal grandeur of collegiate and ecclesiastical architecture, this curious collection of...

Stone and light: within a hermetic stone clad casket is an interior realm of lightness and tranquillity.(interior design)
May 1, 2005... Alberto Campo Baeza's new offices for the local health authority in Almeria extend an existing courtyard block on a city centre site. Towering somewhat aloofly over seven storeys above its squat neighbour, Campo Baeza's building mediates...

In the frame: when planning constraints deter new-build homes, creativity has to reside behind the facade.(ar house)
May 1, 2005... If Fiona McLean had not been working on May Day 2001, she may never have had the opportunity to design this prestigious Holland Park home. Fortunately she was. She picked up the phone, took the call and the next day the client flew in from...

Bella Milano.(product review)(Advertisement)
May 1, 2005... This year's Milan Furniture Fair was the last to be held on the familiar Fiera site before it decamps to a superscale new trade fair complex designed by Massimiliano Fuksas. Furniture design, like fashion, thrives on a sense of gratuitous...

Specifier's information.(Nova Metals)(Promat UK)(Advertisement)
May 1, 2005... Creative Impressions In 2002, the City Council of Padova in Italy proposed to install a new Metro bus link across the city and chose pattern imprinted coloured concrete over more traditional finishes. Special Permacolour dry-shake colour...

Biotech futures.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... ARCHITECTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND PROCESS By Chris Abel. Oxford: Architectural Press. 2004. [pounds sterling]21.99 Chris Abel has been writing, sometimes prophetically, about architecture and technology ever since the 1960s. He saw, for...

Brazil still builds.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... BRAZIL'S MODERN ARCHITECTURE Edited by Elisabetta Andreoli and Adrian Forty, London: Phaidon. 2004. [pounds sterling]45 LATIN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE 1929-1960: CONTEMPORARY REFLECTIONS Edited by Carlos Brillembourg. New York:...

L'affaire Suisse.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... LE CORBUSIER: PAVILLON SUISSE--THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BUILDING By Ivan Zaknic. Basel: Birkhauser. 2004. [euro]65 Clients who won't pay your bills? Inadequate construction budgets? Client bodies with unclear lines of authority? If you can...

The world of work.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... WORKING WITHOUT WALLS: AN INSIGHT INTO THE TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENT WORKPLACE By Tim Allen, Adryan Bell, Richard Graham, Bridget Hardy, Felicity Swaffer. London: OGC/DEGW. 2004. Free THE DISTRIBUTED WORKPLACE Edited by Andrew...

The power of horticulture.
May 1, 2005... In organising the Museum of Modern Art's current exhibition, Groundswell: Construeting the Contemporary Landscape, Peter Reed, a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, recognises the pivotal role of landscape architects whose...

The House of God.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Crowned by a soaring vault of concrete and glass, Oscar Niemeyer's cathedral for Brasilia is one of the more modern examples of Christian church building from The House of God, Edward Norman, London: Thames & Hudson, 2005, [pounds...

Pieter Breughel-like Tower of Babel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... This impressively Pieter Breughel-like Tower of Babel was designed and built by the Artists' Community of Ruigoord in the Netherlands to provide living and working quarters. Constructed from old timber pallets donated by local firms, the...

Bling blag blog.(browser)(Weblogs)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... You will have heard of blogs--sort of websites which range from personal diaries through obsessive compulsive single topics, sites about 'spy helicopters' through to sites which are indistinguishable from formally accredited websites. Most of...

Down memory lane.(browser)(www.archpedia.com)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Five years ago we took a look at the interactive architectural enclyclopaedia, Archpedia, at www.archpedia.com. Then we were reduced to tears of eye-strain due to the lack of contrast between the buff, slate blue and grey layout. The buff...

The buildings of England.(browser)(www.imagesofengland.org.uk/enquiry)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... I couldn't imagine that I would ever have a kind word to say about English Heritage, that body staffed by closet would-be riders to hounds, haters of modern architecture and ageing members of the I-Dined-with-the-Earl school of architectural...

Selective histories.(browser)(Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America)(www.classicisl.org)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America is at www.classicisl.org. It has travel programmes, does publications, runs salons, symposia and academic programmes, lists a lively calendar of events and the like. The organisation...

Delight.(THE PHNOM BAKHENG TEMPLE COMPLEX AT ANGKOR WAT.)
May 1, 2005... ONE OF THE JEWELS' OF KHMER CULTURE, THE PHNOM BAKHENG TEMPLE COMPLEX AT ANGKOR WAT IS TO BE THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR CONSERVATION PROGRAMME THAT WILL ENSURE THE MONUMENT'S FUTURE. Seat of the mighty Khmer Empire for over six centuries from...