All Building Design articles in 03 November 2006

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  • News

    This Week

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    This Week in brief

  • Competitions

    Urban Salon

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    This year’s nomination represented Urban Salon’s second appearance on a Young Architect of the Year shortlist. It was runner up in the 2000 competition, a mere three years after the practice had been established.

  • Analysis

    Tessa’s poor performance

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Just days before outgoing ODA chairman Jack Lemley revealed his frustrations with the British government, BD met Olympics minister Tessa Jowell at the RIBA conference in Venice, and found she had a very shaky grip on her brief.

  • News

    White paper seeks more power for planners

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Radical reforms outlined in the local government white paper could give planning authorities the confidence to take controversial decisions, an expert has said.

  • Competitions

    Mangera Yvars

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Ali Mangera began his practice’s presentation with by far the largest project that any of the nominees showed in the course of the day — the 50,000sq m Abbey Mills Islamic Centre.

  • Competitions

    Magnetic Nord

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow-based practice Nord is the winner of this year’s BD Young Architect of the Year Award. Ellis Woodman looks at the qualities that appealed to the jury, as well as its thoughts on the runners up

  • News

    This week: Northern Ireland

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Our weekly regional news round

  • Opinion

    Inside view

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    I am lost in admiration for the wonderful sculptural building Hadid has created in Kirkcaldy and for the fact that she and others designing for the same trust have given their services for free. I hope the Maggie’s Centres will find the finance to develop and build the further four ...

  • Competitions

    No place like home

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Nord is part of a new wave of Scottish architects that are turning their backs on the bright lights of London and staying north of the border.

  • News

    High-density race warning

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Trevor Phillips says designers must consider community cohesion when planning new developments

  • News

    Making the grade

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Hopkins Architects has been given the final go-ahead for this £70 million scheme at the City campus of Nottingham Trent University. The project comprises the refurbishment of the university’s grade II* listed Arkwright and Newton buildings and the construction of a glazed atrium between them.

  • News

    Scots watchdog slams housing neighbouring Pineapple folly

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    A proposed housing development at Dunmore Park near Falkirk, home to one of the UK’s most distinctive follies, has been slammed by Architecture & Design Scotland in its latest round of design review reports.

  • Opinion

    Fit for purpose?

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    The new cancer centre by Zaha Hadid certainly seems a most imaginative piece of sculpture, but I wonder whether, as a building for restorative care, it will it be up to the job?

  • News

    Final flourish

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Penoyre & Prasad has been commissioned to design the new Church of England Academy in Finchley, London, sponsored by the London Diocesan Board of Schools.

  • Opinion

    Stress factors

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Am I alone in wondering if the sycophantic admiration for Zaha’s new creation is missing some vital points?

  • Opinion

    Going up not down

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    There is no truth in the implied quote — MacCormac: practice “in freefall” (News October 20).

  • Opinion

    Don’t be invisible — shout louder

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to Venice as part of the RIBA annual conference, looking at architecture’s broader impact on both the environment and society.

  • Opinion

    North south divide

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    I much appreciate the way BD tries to promote the interests of women in architecture.

  • Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    This week with John Sorrell

  • Competitions

    IJP Corporation

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    George L Legendre, the director of IJP Corporation, is both an architect and an academic, teaching a diploma course at the AA. His practice’s work is entirely focused on the use of mathematics to generate form.