All Building Design articles in 02 February 2007

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  • Langley Academy of Science
    News

    This Week

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    This week in brief

  • The Laban Centre: extreme weather should not excuse construction failure.
    Opinion

    Weather warning

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Nicholas Stern has emphasised that “what happens to our climate in the next 20-30 years is already determined. Our actions in the next 20-30 years will affect the decades after that.”

  • Suzi Towel
    Opinion

    Suzi Towel

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Hey, guess who’s agreed to run the three-legged race with Ricky Gervais? That’s right, muggins here! :-)

  • Proposed design for a swimming pool at Balbarbie Park, in Bathgate, West Lothian, by London-based Studio E Architects.
    News

    Spotcheck

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    This week: Scotland

  • designs for salford
    News

    Space for Salford

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    The Manchester office of HKR Architects has won planning permission for this £11 million residential development in Salford.

  • View from the south-east corner of the site showing the entrance to the parish centre under the parabolic moulding on the east elevation.
    Building Study

    Return of the saint

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    It has taken half a century and much compromise but Le Corbusier’s St Pierre church is a triumph.

  • regency refurb: houses and street
    News

    Regency refurb

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Tim Foster Architects has won planning consent for this performing arts centre at Cheltenham Ladies’ College.

  • News

    MPs’ report supports Smart PFI

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Paddington failure prompts call to consider design earlier

  • model and people
    News

    Zaha’s latest performance

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid has released this image of the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre, one of five major institutions to be developed as a new cultural district on the Gulf state’s 270ha Saadiyat Island.

  • Gillespies and Stanton Williams rethink the base of Centre Point and St Giles’ Circus in London’s West End.
    Review

    A journey to outer spaces

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    NLA’s visions of London’s communal areas underwhelm Ben Campkin

  • Opinion

    Regeneration: make your voice heard

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Are some cities beyond help?

  • News

    Make takes over from RRP on Haringey plan

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Make has taken over the masterplan for Haringey Heartlands dropped by Richard Rogers Partnership earlier this month.

  • News

    Heritage lottery to fund museum plans

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    John Miller & Partners and Sidell Gibson have been given the go-ahead for their second project together after a funding commitment made by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).

  • Opinion

    Playing with fire

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    We carbon-based life forms do not share Trevor Butler’s enthusiasm for zero carbon, whichever way it is spun out.

  • News

    Farrell takes vision for Gateway to Tories

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Terry Farrell is promoting his idea for a national park in the Thames Gateway to leading figures in the Conservative Party following growing disillusionment with the government’s approach.

  • Ian Simpson, together with Kerzner, Ask and Artisan, produced this design which helped win the licence for Manchester.
    News

    Race on to design supercasino

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Surprise winner Manchester will make Ian Simpson compete for design, despite his hand in the winning bid

  • The pentagram papers: Thames &Hudson
    Competitions

    The Pentagram Papers by The Pentagram Partners. Edited by Delphine Hirasuna.

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    The Pentagram PapersThe Pentagram Partners. Ed. by Delphine HirasunaThames & Hudson£35224pp HBA quirky collection of design and emphemera produced by some of the most talented designers in the world.

  • News

    Minister defends planning system

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Planning and housing minister Yvette Cooper hit back at critics this week during a parliamentary seminar on the “overburdened” planning system.

  • Now you see them: A visualisation of the Thames embankment highlights the threat posed to the capital’s public spaces if its tree population continues to shrink.
    News

    GLA probes decline of London’s street trees

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    The Greater London Authority has launched an inquiry into the loss of street trees in London amid growing concern that they will die out, leaving the capital’s public spaces exposed to rising temperatures.

  • Adrian Tinniswood
    Review

    Culture vulture

    2007-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Adrian Tinniswood