All Building Design articles in 07 May 2010
View all stories from this issue.
-
-
OpinionGove gets off to a bad start
The new education secretary’s ill-informed remarks suggests he has little understanding of architecture
-
NewsShapps named as new housing minister
Grant Shapps has been named as the government’s new housing minister, according to reports.
-
News
Three go head to head for Moscow hotel deal
Three practices are expected to find out as early as today who has won a prized deal to take over from Foster & Partners on the scheme to rebuild the Rossiya Hotel on the edge of Moscow’s Red Square.
-
NewsDublin national stadium to open tomorrow
Populous and Scott Tallon Walker Architects’ 50,000-seat national rugby and football stadium in Dublin opens tomorrow (May 14), almost exactly three years after work began on site.
-
News
Fears over planning job cuts in N Ireland
Plans to slash 300 jobs from the Northern Ireland Planning Service will lead to poor decisions that will damage the province’s built environment, it was claimed this week.
-
NewsTesco blasts Cabe in development row
Tesco has accused Cabe of ignoring local residents after the design watchdog savaged its plans for a development in east London for a second time in three months.
-
NewsBroadway Malyan £100m Edinburgh flats scheme rejected
Edinburgh Council has refused Broadway Malyan’s £100 million scheme to build over 700 flats on a brownfield site in the city.
-
NewsGwyn Hall revamp begins
Work has started on Holder Mathias’s £7 million refurbishment of Gwyn Hall, a Victorian arts centre in Neath, Wales.
-
NewsShortlist announced for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art competition
David Adjaye, Foster & Partners, Snøhetta and Diller Scofidio & Renfro have all been selected as finalists in a competition to revamp the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
-
NewsNicolas Sarkozy opens new Pompidou Centre in Metz
A new Pompidou Centre in France has been opened by the country’s president Nicolas Sarkozy.
-
News
Camden schools contracts announced
Walters & Cohen and Penoyre & Prasad have been awarded the job of designing two sample schools in Camden after partner BAM scooped the London borough’s £250 million Building Schools for the Future scheme.
-
Information - BD
Starting on site
You’ll notice we’ve launched a sparkling new Bdonline - part of BD’s ongoing commitment and investment in digital. Please let us know what you think!
-
NewsPCKO unveils first council rented homes for 20 years
PCKO Architects has received Homes & Communities Agency funding for the first local authority houses for social rent to be built in 20 years.
-
NewsFarrells replaces Foster’s on Folkestone scheme
A scheme to revamp a Kent seaside town has seen its third architect hired for the job in as many years.
-
NewsGillespies wins major Beirut public realm project
Landscape and urban design firm Gillespies has won an international design competition to rejuvenate Beirut’s Roman Baths.
-
NewsRogers Stirk Harbour’s profits slump
Profits at Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners tumbled more than two-thirds last year as workloads in its key UK and North-American markets nosedived.
-
NewsCZWG to turn Fulham bingo hall site into flats
CZWG has been given planning permission to turn a derelict bingo hall into an £8 million residential mixed-use scheme in west London.
-
NewsTory education spokesman apologises to architects
Tory education spokesman Michael Gove has been forced to issue a grovelling apology to the profession after claiming that architects were “creaming off cash” under the government’s Building Schools for the Future programme.
-
NewsElection sees victory for architecture spokesmen but defeat for architect candidates
The architecture spokesmen for all three main parties have retained their parliamentary seats and increased their majorities as the country deals with its first hung parliament since 1974.