Features & Reports

RIAS Award prize money
From Gordon Murray, President RIAS

Last month’s faintly ridiculous editorial demands some response. Despite a three-year term served in Glasgow, Sudjic’s insular view can be excused, given a total unfamiliarity with any architectural...

The beat novel “On the Road”, by Jack Kerouac, traced his surreal trip along the white lines of some of the most evocative continental highways in existence. For some reason, only an American route seems confident in providing such rich pickings for an art form, with...

\'Eduardo Souto de Moura\'
Authors:
Antonio Esposito + Giovanni Leoni
Published by:
Electa Architecture (2003)
Price:
£45.00
ISBN:
1-904313-23-X

Whilst speculating on the formation of a Scottish genius loci, the critic Neal Ascherson declared...

“Passion can create drama out of pure stone,” said a relatively young Le Corbusier in “Towards a New Architecture” in 1923, and this desire to find the emotive, even the spiritual, qualities in architecture burned throughout his career. When I visited his hilltop...

The Porth Wen Brickworks was the site of one of Ian Banks’ student projects, but that’s not the only reason he loves the derelict Anglesey structure.

It was a slight problem originally, justifying to myself the choice of derelict Victorian brickworks as my all-time...

After years of lobbying, Malcolm Fraser’s campaign for the creative, selective demolition and redevelopment of Princes Street won official support. Then another architect offered to develop the idea for free.

The essence of this wonderful street is the rational layout...

In the age of the internet, it is astonishing to still find architects without a website. Clearly these practitioners have no desire to promote themselves or are cosy in the security of commissions gained on the golf course or via the Rotary Club. The next level of complacency...

What is the purpose of awards? Why sponsor one? Because we need to take every opportunity to affirm what is good, and acknowledge the fact that excellent work is done in Scotland. Awards are one of the ways of recognising designers and publicising the cause for good design....

Spare a thought for engineer George Stephenson, trying to create the Liverpool to Manchester rail link that was to become the world’s first passenger railway. In 1824 he wrote: “We have sad work with Lord Derby, Lord Sefton, and Bradshaw the Great Canal Proprietor, whose...

by Anna Chambers
photography by Basharat Khan.

If you happened to live next door to someone that lavishly decks their home with flashing lights , snowmen and reindeer every Christmas, you could be forgiven for feeling like a little bit of a party pooper in...

by Phil Griffin
photography by Daniel Hopkinson

The Maths Tower is an important landmark on Manchester’s skyline, it identifies the university campus. However, under new proposals to redevelop the university’s estate the elegant tower will be...

by Penny Lewis

The results of this year’s MRUK research on construction professionals makes interesting reading. Arup dominate the tables, but some new faces have also made an impression. Prospect has carried out its second annual survey of design professionals. The...