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05:
2013
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Context

Analysis

Intelligence

Leader

Hospitals have come a long way since Brunel’s Nightingale Wards and they’re still going

Viewfinder

The reopened Dutch Rijksmuseum is pleasing audiences, engineers – and cyclists

The Month

Smithfield spat, massive Meccano, Racy Rochdale, and controversy for MOMA and Israel

Eye Line competition

Whatever the medium, drawings tell a wider story; and we want to see yours

Obituary

Howard Liddell, eco-enthusiast who believed sustainable should also be beautiful

Perspective

Corb storms the US, whither American architecture, and RIBA’s regional worries

Out There

Creating playground structures for a children’s hospice was a voyage of discovery for all

President's column

How the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 evolved and what has changed

RIBA

Routemap for the RIBA Plan of Work 2013

Preview

An RIBA exhibition demonstrates how much Indian master Charles Correa can teach us

Book

Phyllis Lambert’s own riveting account of her life’s work, New York’s iconic Seagram building

Review

The Independent Group, half a century on – how significant were they?

Listings

What’s on and when, at the RIBA and in the wider world

Exchange

Readers' views and reactions

Profile

The cramped and clustered buildings of Great Ormond Street Hospital are undergoing a lengthy rationalisation, resetting a fractured, organically grown site to make a coherent whole

Critique

Circle Reading Hospital doesn’t just look different – it’s the result of a deliberate strategy in which an agreed approach and aspirations provided the reference point throughout construction

Process

A preparedness to look at every option afresh breathed fresh air into the Finchley Memorial Hospital rebuild, expanding its site from a squeezed languishing corner to a health campus

Parting Shot

London’s Royal Masonic Hospital ditched neo-Georgian for Streamline Moderne look

Technical | Editorial

Eleanor Young introduces this month’s intelligence offerings

Technical | Refurbishment

21st century standards meet 18th century style at Bristol’s Old Vic

Practice| Health and austerity

Research into matching guidance and aspiration with low budgets

Practice | Legal

A bitter tale of a home not fit to live in, and a picture that was worth a thousand words

Practice | Real lives

An alliance of four small practices hopes to win a share of the big jobs

Regional focus | Yorkshire

There is still work for architects at the shops, despite the recession

Products in Practice

Our second fact-packed Products in Practice technical supplement is out. Digital version here