360° magazine - Autumn 2009

Autumn 2009

Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is seeing every secondary school in England rebuilt or refurbished. Here we look at the new minimum design standard, coming into force next year.

Manabi-no-Mori is a beautiful park in Kakamigahara City, Japan. Since opening in 2005 it has been a huge success. It is an outstanding example of inclusive design and a beautiful green public space, maintained by local people.

Key stage 3 students from Cardinal Newman Catholic School, Brighton, recently took part in ‘A window on the past'. This project focused on three streets in the Lanes, a historic part of Brighton now packed with shops and restaurants.

East Beach Café, designed by Thomas Heatherwick, a celebrated artist and designer, arrived in the Sussex resort of Littlehampton in 2007. Made out of steel designed to rust to a deep brown colour, the building has been described as a work of modern art.

Janet Goh works for Davis Langdon, a leading quantity surveying practice, responsible for costing buildings like Tate Modern and Manchester City Stadium.

360° magazine - Summer 2009

Summer 2009

The new diploma in construction and the built environment is under way and CABE has been bringing together key players to discuss the next steps.

Do you want to inspire your students with an unusual competition? The Architectural Foundation of San Francisco did just that. Its design competition for high school students has run for 40 years.

The Manchester College and the North City Library in Harpurhey has won a top award for its design, by Walker Simpson Architects, and is proving a source of inspiration for the local Building Schools for the Future programme.

It’s not just architects who design buildings. If you enjoy finding solutions to technical problems, mechanical engineering could be the job for you. Buro Happold’s Richard Walder tells Lydia Coelho at 360° why he loves his job and what inspires him.