Architecture week
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Architecture debateOn June 28, 2001 four of Britain's foremost architects were live online in a debate hosted by the Guardian's architecture critic Jonathan Glancey. The panellists were Dickon Robinson, Hans van der Heijden, Pierre d'Avoine and Sarah Wigglesworth.
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Pierre d'Avoine
Pierre d'Avoine studied at Birmingham School of Architecture. He worked with Peter Bond Partnership and Fitzroy Robinsons before establishing Pierre d'Avoine Architects in 1979.
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Dickon Robinson
Dickon Robinson started his career with a management consultancy engaged in environmental and behavioural research. He then worked as an architect in private practice, designing hospitals and housing schemes. During this period, he was a founder member and first chair of the Soho Housing Association and was involved in community action groups in the West End, including the Save Piccadilly Campaign and the Soho Society.
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Do come in, but it's rather a crowdWhen guests come round, the usual thing is to offer them a cup of tea and invite them to relax on your sofa.
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Antony Gormley CV
Born in 1950. Lives and works in London.
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Loo and Lord's centre rivals for awardThe alien spaceship that hovers over Lord's, two stylish new Tube stations, the "most beautiful boat shed in the world" and an elegant public lavatory are the main contenders for the best new building of the year.
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The man who made dreams for living in
Sir John Soane, maker of mysterious, emotional buildings, was a depressive who was trashed in print by his own son. Jonathan Glancey reports
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He built the dome. Fortunately he didn't choose the colour
Architect Mike Davies doesn't just dress in red - he drives a red Jaguar with red leather seats, writes in red ink with a red pen and studies the stars from his roof through 22 red telescopes. "Colour is a vehicle to exploring life," says Davies, a founding partner of Richard Rogers Partnership. "The range inherent in a colour is so incredible." In his spare time he paints "symphonies in red", and he still adheres to an idealism of art that many left behind at college.
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Castle in the air
Hoghton Tower was the secret hideaway of the young Catholic Shakespeare. And it is the perfect site for a new centre devoted to the Bard. Jonathan Glancey reports
Constructive criticism Constructive criticism: the week in architecture
A week of high-flying British architecture with the launch of Apple's Norman Foster-designed headquarters, the revised Chelsea Barracks plan and an eyecatching east London folly