Building Design
{{Short description|UK magazine (1970–2014)}}
{{For|the design of buildings|Building design}}
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{{use British English|date=April 2021}}
{{Infobox Magazine
| logo = BD logo - Intelligence for Architects.png
| image_file = Wiki homepage image BD crop.png
| editor = Chloe McCulloch (Editorial Director)
Ben Flatman (Architectural Editor)Building Design (website): Contacts, https://www.bdonline.co.uk/contact-bd
| frequency = Weekly
| circulation = 7,698 (2013) {{down}}
| category = Architecture
| company = United Business Media
| founded = 1969
| firstdate =
| finaldate = March 2014 (print)
| country = United Kingdom
| based = London
| language = English
| website = {{URL|http://www.bdonline.co.uk}}
| issn = 0007-3423
}}
Building Design, or BD, is a leading online platform for architectural news, analysis, and commentary, based in London.{{cite book|author=Muriel Emanuel|title=Contemporary Architects|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n8VyCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA732|date=23 January 2016|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-349-04184-8|page=732}}
BD was launched in 1969 by publisher Morgan Grampian{{cite book|title=Building design |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4677701|via=WorldCat|isbn=9781879796034|oclc=4677701|access-date=13 June 2020|last1=Robinson|first1=Doris|year=1991|publisher=Peri Press }} as a closed circulation weekly at a time when high-tech architecture was just starting to take off. It ceased its print edition in March 2014, becoming a digital-only publication.{{cite news|last= Woodman|first= Ellis|title= As ever, the changing face of BD reflects the industry|url= http://www.bdonline.co.uk/as-ever-the-changing-face-of-bd-reflects-the-industry/5067233.article|work= Building Design|access-date=30 March 2014|date=14 March 2014}}
Unlike some other architectural publications, BD{{'}}s editors and staff are mainly journalists rather than architects. The magazine is free to subscribers and offers limited free access to non-subscribers. It is funded by revenue from advertising.
Circulation
By 2025, Building Design had over 141,500 registered users and more than 17,100 paid users. Its website, bdonline.co.uk, attracted 79,000 unique users and over 210,000 page impressions per month. The publication also had a social media reach of 198,000 across Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
The publishing company is Assemble Media Group, which also publishes Building and Housing Today.{{cite web|url= http://www.bdonline.co.uk/about-bd/ |title= About Building Design}}
AYA and YAYA
BD hosts the Architect of the Year Awards and Young Architect of the Year in central London, attended annually by over 500 senior decision makers.
The Architect of the Year Awards{{cite web |url= http://www.events.ubm.com/event/2446/architect-of-the-year-awards |title= Architect of the Year Awards |website= ubm.com }}{{cite news |url= http://www.awards.bdonline.co.uk/ |title= Architect of the Year Awards |newspaper= BDOnline }} reward the UK's top architectural practices behind excellent built projects. Since their launch in 2004, the awards have grown in size and stature, featuring entries and attendance from leading practices, and have become firmly established as a key event in the architectural calendar. The awards night is now one of the largest gatherings of architects in the UK.
The Young Architect of the Year Award{{cite news |url= http://www.awards.bdonline.co.uk/yaya/ |title= Young Architect of the Year |newspaper= BDOnline |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131101185132/http://www.awards.bdonline.co.uk/yaya/ |archive-date= 2013-11-01 }} recognises and rewards Europe's most promising new architects and practices. Previous winners have included Coffey Architects, Jonathan Hendry, Serie Architects, David Kohn Architects, Hackett Hall McKnight, Carmody Groarke, Nord and Lynch Architects.
World Architecture 100
BD publishes an annual ranking of the world's biggest architecture practices known as the World Architecture 100. The listing is distributed to the top FTSE 100 companies as well as BD subscribers and is available to buy online.{{citation |title= The 100 Largest Architecture Firms In the World |work= ArchDaily |date= February 11, 2013 |postscript= .}}{{full citation needed|date=July 2014}}{{cite web | title=World Architecture 100 | website=Building Design | date=17 April 2021 | url=https://www.bdonline.co.uk/wa-100 | access-date=17 April 2021}}
Print edition
File:Building Design magazine cover, 2013.jpg
Building Design ceased its print edition in 2014 and became a digital-only publication.
In 2006, the last year of the independent ABC circulation reports, the magazine had a circulation of over 23,000, with 21,500 circulated free to professional and industry-related subscriptions.{{cite web|title=Certificate of Circulation 2005–06|url= http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/13762090p.pdf|work= ABC |access-date=30 March 2014}}
The magazine stopped free access to news, blogs and video content on its website in September 2010 when it introduced a subscription for full access.{{cite news |first= Roy|last= Greenslade|url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2010/sep/24/paywalls-magazines|title= As another magazine charges for access, where's the proof of paywall success?|newspaper= Guardian|date= 24 September 2010}}
Carbuncle Cup
The Carbuncle Cup was BD's annual prize for the worst new architecture in the UK. It ran from 2006-2018, and was launched as a humorous counterpart to the Stirling Prize.{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/sep/12/architecture-establishment-building-design |title= Bricks, mortar and mateyness |newspaper= Observer|date= 12 September 2010}}
A shortlist was announced each summer, based on nominations from the public. The winner was selected by a small group of architecture critics and professionals.
=Recent winners=
{{As of|2018}}, the winners were:
- 2018 – Redrock Stockport, Stockport, Greater Manchester, by BDP{{cite news |url=https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/winner-of-2018-carbuncle-cup-announced/5095398.article|publisher=bdonline.co.uk |access-date=5 September 2018|title=Winner of 2018 Carbuncle Cup announced}}
- 2017 – Nova Victoria, City of Westminster, London, by PLP Architecture{{cite news |url=https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/carbuncle-cup-2017-winner-announced/5089506.article|publisher=bdonline.co.uk |access-date=2017-09-06|title=Carbuncle Cup 2017 winner announced}}
- 2016 – Lincoln Plaza, Isle of Dogs, London, by Hamiltons Architects{{cite news |url=http://www.bdonline.co.uk/hamiltons-seeks-planning-for-tower-hamlets-tower/3103275.article|access-date=2016-09-08|title=Hamiltons seeks planning for Tower Hamlets tower}}
- 2015 – 20 Fenchurch Street (the 'Walkie Talkie'), City of London, by Rafael Viñoly{{cite news|last1=Wainwright|first1=Oliver|title=Carbuncle Cup: Walkie Talkie wins prize for worst building of the year|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/sep/02/walkie-talkie-london-wins-carbuncle-cup-worst-building-of-year|access-date=2 September 2015|work=The Guardian|date=2 September 2015}}
- 2014 – Woolwich Central, London, by Sheppard Robson{{cite web|url=http://www.bdonline.co.uk/buildings/carbuncle-cup/carbuncle-cup-2014-winner-announced/5070668.article |title=Carbuncle Cup 2014 winner announced |date=3 September 2014|work=BDOnline|access-date=23 July 2015}}
- 2013 – 465 Caledonian Road, London, by Stephen George and Partners{{cite news |title= Carbuncle Cup winner 2013: A triumph for the dark side |url= http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/carbuncle-cup-winner-2013-a-triumph-for-the-dark-side/5059745.article |work= BDOnline }}
- 2012 – Cutty Sark Renovation, Greenwich, London, by Grimshaw Architects{{cite news |title= Cutty Sark wins award as worst new building in Britain |first= Andrew |last= Gilligan |author-link=Andrew Gilligan |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date= 13 September 2012|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100180830/cutty-sark-wins-award-as-worst-new-building-in-britain/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913155141/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100180830/cutty-sark-wins-award-as-worst-new-building-in-britain/|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 September 2012}}
- 2011 – MediaCityUK, Salford, by Fairhurst, Chapman Taylor and Wilkinson Eyre{{citation |title= Media City or Media Shitty: that Carbuncle Cup nomination (analysis) |work= The Drum|date=29 July 2011 |postscript=.}}
- 2010 – Strata, Elephant and Castle, London, by BFLS{{cite news |title= London's Strata tower wins Carbuncle Cup as Britain's ugliest new building |newspaper= The Guardian |date=12 August 2010}}{{cite news |title= Towering above its rivals to win the Carbuncle Cup |newspaper= Independent |date=13 August 2010}}
- 2009 – Liverpool Ferry Terminal, Liverpool, by Hamilton Architects{{citation |title= Ferry terminal's Carbuncle award |work= BBC |date=4 September 2009 |postscript= . }}
- 2008 – Radisson SAS Waterfront Hotel, Saint Helier, Jersey, by EPR Architects
- 2007 – Opal Court, Leicester, by Stephen George and Partners
- 2006 – Drake Circus Shopping Centre, Plymouth, by Chapman Taylor
Staff
The editorial director is Chloe McCulloch and the architectural editor is Ben Flatman.
Past editors and staff include Amanda Baillieu, Paul Finch,{{cite web |url= http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-us/our-experts/paul-finch-obe |title=Paul Finch OBE |work=Design Council|access-date=26 April 2015}} Peter Murray, Martin Pawley,{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/mar/11/architecture.pressandpublishing |title= Martin Pawley |type= obituary |newspaper= The Guardian |date= 10 March 2008 |last= Jenkins |first= David}} Hugh Pearman, Marcus Fairs, Oliver Wainwright, Owen Hatherley and Kieran Long.{{cite web|title=Restoration Home|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1jZhB7Bs5hjrgRcvwlkPTcN/kieran-long|work=BBC Two|access-date=11 November 2014}}
Campaigns
Building Design campaigned with the Twentieth Century Society for Robin Hood Gardens, a housing estate in Poplar, London, designed by Alison and Peter Smithson, to be listed and retained.{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artblog/2008/jun/26/dontknockbrutalism |title= Don't knock brutalism |newspaper= Guardian |date= 26 June 2008}}{{cite web |url= http://www.c20society.org.uk/casework/press/release/robin-hood-gardens-c20-launches-c.html |title= Robin Hood Gardens – C20 launches campaign for funds |website= c20society.org.uk |date= 30 November 2008 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110727235703/http://www.c20society.org.uk/casework/press/release/robin-hood-gardens-c20-launches-c.html |archive-date= 27 July 2011 }} It has likewise argued against the unnecessary demolition of old school buildings.{{cite news |first= Martin |last= Wainwright |url= https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/jan/24/english-heritage-save-our-schools |title= English Heritage issues SOS – save old schools |newspaper= Guardian |date= 24 January 2010}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.bdonline.co.uk/}}
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