As we reflect on the career of Indian architect Charles Correa, we look back to when he met Peter Smithson and Zaha Hadid at an event in the Cumbrian landscape organised by the Cumberland Society of Architects as part of the Festival of Architecture in 1984.
Following last week’s seminar on the future of classicism at The Prince’s Foundation, we look back to an exhibition of drawings and prints by classical architect Quinlan Terry at the Leinster Gardens premises of Academy Editions and AD in Bayswater.
Date 1981
Architect Quinlan Terry
Location London
We look back to when Gordon Wilson’s Princess of Wales Conservatory was built in 1985 at Kew
Date 1985
Architect Gordon Wilson
Location London
Thirty years after Pevsner’s death and three decades before Buildings of England became an app, the life’s work of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was celebrated in an obituary after his death in 1983. We look back to his remarkable effort to document England’s notable buildings
Date: 1983
Subject: Nikolaus Pevsner
Location: London
Lambeth strikes back: In 1981, BD published a poster of prime minister Margaret Thatcher by the Borough of Lambeth’s architectural staff.
It was to convince local residents of the need to maintain services in the face of swingeing cuts.
Date: 1981
Subject: Margaret Thatcher
Location: London
BD looks back to Edinburgh’s ‘bold experiment in pub design’- an Edinburgh pub designed by Design Factors in 1981
Date 1981
Architect Design Factors
Location Edinburgh
BD looks back to Edinburgh’s ‘bold experiment in pub design’, a Edinburgh pub designed by Design Factors, 1981
Date 1981
Architect Design Factors
Location Edinburgh
A look back to when David Kohn’s Parisian inspiration for his apartment in Barcelona made its mark on Richard Rogers.
Date: 1985
Architect: Richard Rogers
Sculptor: Richard Deacon
Location: Maison de Verre, Paris
As Toyo Ito is awarded the 2013 Pritzker Prize, we look back at an exhibition at the V&A for which the Japanese architect designed a room.
Date 1991
Architect Toyo Ito
Location V&A Museum, London
With MPs recently calling for greater pub protection and the Marquis of Lansdowne threatened with demolition to make way for Chipperfield’s extension to the Geffrye Museum, we look back at a pub in Manchester which was saved against all odds.
Date 1977
Building Old Wellington Inn
Location Manchester
