All Building Design articles in 11 August 2006

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  • News

    This week

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    This week in brief

  • Technical

    Time Test

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

  • News

    Spotcheck

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Northern Ireland

  • Opinion

    Wait till the resits

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Your report on Edinburgh College of Art’s part I results (News July 28) requires two corrections:

  • Opinion

    RIBA questions

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Your editorial (Comment August 4) states that it would be better for the RIBA to direct questions about architecture and architects to audiences other than architects themselves.

  • Opinion

    Phillips's world

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Given Peter Phillips’s very distinctive view of the world,

  • News

    Olympic sustainability targets are too vague

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Experts say delivery authority must sign up to specific targets now

  • Opinion

    Mini mistakes

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    I do not think Marco da Cruz can have done any research at all on the origins and structure of the Mini.

  • Opinion

    Last orders

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    I don’t know when Peter Cook studied at Bournemouth,

  • News

    Mixed-use and transport are keys to Lea Valley Park

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    The first stage of Urban Initiatives’ report on Lee Valley Park says mixed-use developments, as well as improved transport links and job creation, are fundamental to the area’s future

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    There’s a clever centrefold featuring skyscrapers arranged like The Usual Suspects

  • Building Study

    Trojan house

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Wren would marvel at the surprises concealed within his Christchurch tower, which has been converted by Boyarsky Murphy Architects. Ellis Woodman ascends its 11 storeys to find it utterly fantastical, yet completely able to function as a family home. Photos by Hélène Binet

  • News

    Hospital to pilot single-room ward

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    The brave new world of healthcare design in Britain is to be put to the test with the building of an entire ward to study the use of single rooms in hospitals.

  • Opinion

    Graduates need technical skills now

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    In your editorial about the latest crop of graduates (Comment, July 28), you say that “the complex technical requirements of putting a building together can come later” meaning students don’t have to acquire these skills at their schools of architecture.

  • Fit for a Prince
    News

    Fit for a Prince

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    RMJM has submitted a planning application for its first project in Liverpool, a large mixed-use development including a residential tower on the historic Princes Dock site.

  • Technical

    Eco-aims under strain

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    A Southwark library conversion tested Architype’s sustainability principles to the full.

  • Review

    Drawing you in

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    An exhibition shows how, in the age of computer images, drawings can still offer something unique.

  • News

    School designs menu is ‘possibility’

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    The newly appointed chief executive of Partnerships for Schools has raised the spectre of a menu of standardised designs for the 13,500 schools to rebuilt or refurbished over the next 13 years.

  • Opinion

    Ken needs to deliver on his green pledges

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    A year on and the Olympics remains a mirage: it’s as if we can imagine the best of every games — Sydney’s weather, Barcelona’s buildings, Athens fireworks — recreated in the gritty urban wastelands of east London. But the mirage is starting to fade.

  • Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    This week with Sean Griffiths