Class of 2008
Friday, August 8th, 2008
From exotic spots such as Istanbul and Rome to more domestic locations such as Sheffield and Whitstable, the ambitions of BD’s five graduating diploma student award winners were scattered far and wide this year. Ellis Woodman, BD’s buildings editor, looks at what marked them out
Each year, BD asks every architecture ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Damjan Iliev of the University of Westminster, impressed the judges with his immaculate computer renderings which gave a powerful sense of fluid spatiality.
Damjan Iliev
This year Marcus Cruz and Marjan Coletti’s unit was concerned with the notion of “trade” as the term applies to economic, cultural and intellectual transactions.
The unit’s investigations ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
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Ross Perkin of the University of Edinburgh project explores ideas of porosity, allowing light to leak from the cinema spaces into the surrounding streets.
Perkin’s scheme is also located on a site loaded with substantial Roman archaeology.
In ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
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Anna Page of London Metropolitan University chosen site was the ruins of the 1st century villa built by Emperor Hadrian outside Rome.
Working under the tutorship of Florian Beigel and Philip Christou, Anna Page developed a scheme that incorporated both ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Gurvir Tummana, of the University of Greenwich, scheme focuses on the regeneration of the working port of Whitstable, Kent.
Gurvir Tummana
The looming oil crisis also provides the backdrop to this project proposed for Whitstable in Kent. The town is a working port, if one that has seen better days. It is ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Peter Jennings of the University of Sheffield was commended for his project's contrast between highly refined components and its prevailing sense of austerity.
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