...AND NINE 9
Previously, the 2008 Stirling Prize short-list exciting built environment. Combining real as two bedroom cottages. Organised by
turned up a couple of colourful concepts. examples from practice with colour theory, this CABE and the Home Builders Federation, the
Westminster Academy (Allford Hall Monaghan book helps us fully to understand the role and awards will be announced on 2 December.
Morris) with its yellow and green shades of impact of colour in our urban spaces. And that
banded aluminium panels to give strong brings us full circle back to CABE’s idea And finally......
horizontality is one. Also the Manchester Civil above…ie grey to green. Having been impressed that Mandarin and
Justice Centre (Denton Cole Marshall) with its English is everywhere in China there are
rectilinear limbs, tinted blue, yellow and green, Housing quality sometimes big mistakes. Clock this you
projecting from the sides of an otherwise vast And while we are on the subject of CABE it’s Health & Safety buffs from the fire
monochrome body. 2007 produced no worth noting some good, albeit rare, news extinguisher boxes in the corridor and from
external colour since all six buildings appear about housing. This is that 36 new housing the back of the bedroom doors in one of
as vast sculptural forms – and sculpture is schemes have qualified for a Building for Life Shanghai’s best hotels.
rarely coloured. standard, the national standard for well
designed homes and neighbourhoods. This is a Fire Exting Uisher Box Declation.
Just under a year ago, Colour for third more than last year and a record in the Please don’t worry if fire is occurring. Our
Architecture Today was published by Taylor seven years of the awards. Despite the difficult hotel have owned succor scattering facilities
and Francis. It really summarises all this - market conditions, the percentage of schemes to sure you transmitted safety. Point profess
What role does colour play in our built that achieved the standard rose from 19 per your excellency seat.
environment? How are our attitudes to colour cent of the 125 Building for Life award entries in
changing? What potential do new 2008, to 44 per cent of the 81 entries in 2009. Specification magazine is tempted to
technologies bring for the use of colour and honour anyone who can offer a translation
light in architecture? This year’s entries have a good regional of the last line.
spread of standard winning schemes, with
This is a sequel to the immensely influential every English region except the East Interesting, huh?
Colour for Architecture, published in 1976. Midlands gaining at least one standard and
Much has changed in 30 years; new cutting London schemes gaining 19. They vary in
edge technologies and materials have emerged size and type, from a special needs housing
allowing architects to experiment with colour scheme in London that responds well to its
and light in an energy efficient and sustainable site and surrounding buildings, to a hospital
way, paving the path for a more colourful. and conversion that retains its unique character
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