All Building Design articles in 10 March 2006

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  • Rafael Viñoly has unveiled the first images of his dramatic new office tower for the City of London
    News

    This Week

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    News summary this week...

  • he curved roof of the Diamond Synchrotron, the largest scientific facility to be built in the UK in 30 years, has been covered in 35,000sq m of Kalzip aluminium sheets
    Technical

    Techbrief

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    This week: Roofing

  • News

    Tunnel rethink at Stonehenge

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Rising costs put cut-and-cover back in contention

  • Review

    Seeing through modernist spectacles

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    With some of the architects’ keenest critics absent, last month’s symposium on Philip Johnson could have been a whitewash. Instead, it proved a thorough investigation with unforgettable contributions

  • Flats, Hutchesontown C, Gorbals, Glasgow, by Sir Basil Spence Glover & Ferguson, as photographed by Henk Snoek.
    Review

    The master of mono

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    An exhibition of Henk Snoek's work aims to increase awareness of architectural photography.

  • HLM Architects has put in a planning application for a new £30 million Warwickshire Southern Justice Centre in Leamington Spa
    News

    Law of its own

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    HLM Architects has put in a planning application for a new £30 million Warwickshire Southern Justice Centre in Leamington Spa.

  • Capita Symonds’ design for the interior of Shuttleworth Community College is part of its proposals as preferred bidder for Lancashire County Council’s Building Schools for the Future programme.
    News

    Lancashire hot spot

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Capita Symonds' design for the interior of Shuttleworth Community College is part of its proposals as preferred bidder for Lancashire County Council's Building Schools for the Future programme.

  • Aedas Architects has won planning permission for the £30 million Chester Road development in Manchester.
    News

    Home office

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Aedas Architects has won planning permission for the £30 million Chester Road development in Manchester.

  • Opinion

    Tub Haagendas

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Monday I present some collected material in the form of a "decoy lecture" at the Institute of Cultural Ballistics.

  • News

    Foster's posts a profit

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has posted its annual results for the year ending 30 April 2005, showing a pre-tax profit of £2.5 million.

  • News

    FOA: ‘We do pay students'

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Foreign Office Architects has strenuously denied claims that it fails to pay student workers, claiming it is the victim of an internet smear campaign.

  • Zaha Hadid’s project at Spittelau in Vienna, above, is some of the most expensive social housing in the world, with a staggering £7 million price tag, for 31 mini units.
    News

    Social experiment

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid's project at Spittelau in Vienna, above, is some of the most expensive social housing in the world, with a staggering £7 million price tag, for 31 mini units.

  • The three buildings viewed across the Donaukanal with Otto Wagner's viaduct visible at low level.
    Building Study

    Vienna's white elephants

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid's project at Spittelau, Vienna, is one of her most compelling yet. Too bad it has become possibly the most expensive and ill-conceived social housing in the world.

  • The Loom, Nottingham. This mixed-use project by Maber Associates has won planning permission.
    News

    Spotcheck: East Midlands

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Local news update

  • Denton Corker Marshall has unveiled designs for a new exhibition and events centre at Bluewater.
    News

    Ribbon development

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Denton Corker Marshall has unveiled designs for a new exhibition and events centre at Bluewater.

  • The exterior uses a perforated copper screen for a dramatic impact.
    Building Study

    The devil in the detail

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Haverstock school was hailed as a new model for well-designed PFI schools. Has it fulfilled its promise?

  • Aid or design? School constructed by Architecture for Humanity in Sri Lanka last year.
    Review

    When disparate turns desperate

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Is the Designer of the Year shortlist too eclectic?

  • Flatiron building: New York sightseeing.
    Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    This week: James Soane

  • News

    RIBA warns over design codes

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Guidelines could be a dead hand for innovation, says institute

  • News

    Olympic reality check

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Task group warns that 2012 work bonanza has been over-hyped