All Building Design articles in 03 March 2006

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  • The front elevation to Gordon Street. The metal brise soleil creates a moire pattern that reflects the research being carried on inside.
    Building Study

    Shrink wrapped

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Designing a centre for scientists working in nanotechnology, Feilden Clegg Bradley faced a rigid technical brief. Despite this, its new research centre is both delicate and confident, giving UCL's Bloomsbury campus a new front door.. Photos by Tim Soar

  • News

    Saxon takes on trendies

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    ‘Crisis of values' in profession

  • Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects has won the competition to design a new footbridge for the Rochester Riverside regeneration programme.
    News

    Tales from the riverbank

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects has won the competition to design a new footbridge for the Rochester Riverside regeneration programme.

  • News

    Olympics to have quality watchdog

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Revealed: Rogers' lobbying of Ken Livingstone for games design panel

  • Liverpool could become home to 30 wind turbines to mark its year as European Capital of Culture in 2008.
    News

    News: This Week

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    News round up this week...

  • Broadway Malyan has revealed its proposals for Liverpool’s Fourth Grace site, which was originally earmarked for Will Alsop’s Cloud.
    News

    Showing Mersey

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Broadway Malyan has revealed its proposals for Liverpool's Fourth Grace site, which was originally earmarked for Will Alsop's Cloud.

  • Part of Newbetter’s Can Buildings Curate, at Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York.
    Review

    Room for improvement

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    A talk by collective Newbetter failed to interestingly convey its work.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    This week: HRH Charles Windsock

  • Eric Parry Architects has completed a £3 million music building for the prestigious Bedford School.
    News

    Hitting a high note

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Eric Parry Architects has completed a £3 million music building for the prestigious Bedford School.

  • News

    Planners' green skills gap

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Research shows Google is main source of sustainable expertise

  • Biotecture’s environmentally friendly Earthships development planned for Brighton Marina.
    News

    Spotcheck: South East

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    South East

  • Alvar Aalto’s Turun Sanomat Builidng, Turku, 1927-30.
    Review

    Finn volume fat on detail

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    This new series on modernism opens with an authoritative study of Finland that goes far beyond Aalto, says Thomas Muirhead

  • Denton Corker Marshall has won planning permission for a new office building in
    News

    DCM spin-off

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Denton Corker Marshall has won planning permission for a new office building in Manchester.

  • National Theatre: one of London’s best.
    Review

    Culture Vulture

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    This week: Andrew Daws

  • News

    Design guidance for ‘crappy suburbia'

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    The Housing Corporation has moved to crack down on poor design in medium-sized developments.

  • Oak House, After being deliberately hit by a digger.
    News

    Council to prosecute owner of listed cottage

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    The owner of a much-loved listed house that became the victim of a "blatant act of architectural vandalism" will be prosecuted by the local council.

  • The double-skinned metal facade.
    Building Study

    In detail: London Centre for Nanotechnology

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    The Nanotechnology building has eight floors of laboratories and offices dedicated to interdisciplinary research in atomic scale devices and materials.

  • News

    CDM safety guidelines further delayed

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    The introduction of new safety regulations has been postponed from October this year to April 2007. By that time it will have been nearly two years between the launch of the guidelines and their becoming law.

  • Conservative leader David Cameron has taken the  green lead and commissioned Alex Michaelis to make sustainable upgrades to his new home.
    News

    David Cameron, celebrated cyclist, goes for green at home

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Conservative leader David Cameron is bravely plunging into the planning system with one of the very sustainable construction proposals planners find so difficult to comprehend.

  • Aftermath of destruction: Iraqis inspect the damage to the Askariya mosque in Samarra following the bombing of the golden-domed Shia shrine last week.
    News

    Breaking down the walls

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Last week's bombing of the Askariya mosque in Samarra was a deliberate act designed to fuel religious tensions. Throughout history, such acts of destruction have served as powerful symbols during conflict.