All Leisure & culture articles – Page 15
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Features2012 countdown: The temporary basketball venue
The Olympics may need a basketball venue the size of an aeroplane hanger, but London can probably get by without one after they’re over. So they’ve made the whole thing demountable
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Features2012 countdown: The stadium
One year from now, the 80,000-seat Olympic stadium has to be ready. Will it make it?
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Features2012 countdown: Jonathan Edwards and the Olympic village
Don’t worry. Jonathan Edwards hasn’t fallen on hard times since winning gold at Sydney in 2000. Rather, Locog is using his expert knowledge to help with the delivery of the £1bn Olympic village, right down to the fixtures and fittings
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Features2012 countdown: The velodrome
The plan with the velodrome was to make it as lean as a racing bike, says Chris Wise, one of its designers
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NewsWilkinson Eyre's £17m Worthing Pool goes in for planning
Competition-winning swimming and leisure complex is designed to echo its seaside setting
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NewsWolves unveil £40m football stadium redevelopment plan
Wolverhampton Wanderers to rebuild at least two stands at Molineux ground
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NewsEdward Cullinan's Fitzwilliam College library officially opens
Duke of Edinburgh opens university building designed by this year's Building Awards Architect of the Year
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NewsBirmingham MAC to reopen in May
Branson Coates came up with initial designs for £15m expansion to Birmingham's Midlands Art Centre
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NewsPlans for world's first underground golf club
ReardonSmith submits plans for £72m subterranean scheme in area of English natural woodland
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NewsImages and video footage: London's Olympic pools filled for the first time
The aquatics centre pools are tested before being being sealed and tiled
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NewsClapham gets a makeover
Studio Egret West has designed a 12-storey building in south London to be built by United House
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NewsMade in Taiwan: Pop music complex, Taiwan
Arup Associates together with the US architect Reiser + Umemoto have won a competition to design Asia’s first performance complex devoted to pop music
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NewsNeat work: Foster + Partners' Wisconsin museum
Fortaleza Hall, a museum at the Wisconsin headquarters of cleaning product maker SC Johnson, is complete
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NewsNouvel to design Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Jean Nouvel has been invited to design 10th Serpentine Pavilion and his first UK building
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FeaturesDouble crossing: Heneghan Peng’s Olympic bridge
Heneghan Peng’s 54m-wide central bridge at the Olympic park, which was lowered into place last week, has been ingeniously designed to form two narrower walkways after the Games have finished. Stephen Kennett explains how it all works
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FeaturesThe London Library: Speaking volumes
The London Library has been extending in higgledy-piggledy fashion ever since it moved to its St James’s home in 1845. Now Haworth Tompkins has set out to rationalise its circulation so that readers may actually be able to find the books they’re looking for
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NewsAukett + Heese to design 464-room Berlin hotel
German arm of Aukett Fitzroy Robinson wins contract for scheme, which is part of wider mixed-use development
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NewsThe school's in aisle 46
Tesco is reworking plans for a district centre in Bromley-by-Bow, east London, after Cabe criticised them
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NewsV&A ceiling scoops plastering award
Subcontractor David Andrews Construction picks up prize at FPDC Plaisterers Awards 2009
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NewsPlanners approve Bristol City FC's £60m stadium
Decision over 30,000-seat stadium now rests with the secretary of state