All Building Design articles in 19 May 2006

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  • The Hooke Park workshop
    Features

    From studio to workshop

    2006-05-19T11:56:00Z

    After two weeks of intense work on the drawings, mock-ups and material orders, five of us arrived at Hooke Park on Monday at dusk, to a beautiful, exploding spring season.

  • Fielden & Mawson is lead architect on the project to refurbish the Middlesex Guildhall to create the new Supreme Court (pictured), which will act as the final court of appeal in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, separate from the House of Lords.
    News

    This week

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

  • New York, containing a detailed model of the Empire State Building, modelled in SketchUp and exported to Google Earth.
    Features

    Tomorrow the world

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Collaborations with Google Earth are beginning to give architects, clients and even the public unprecedented ability to test-drive new schemes in virtual neighbourhoods

  • One of Mackel Doherty’s Pairc Ghno na hAislinge business units, which won a Royal Society of Ulster Architects art in architecture award.
    News

    Spotcheck

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    This week: Northern Ireland

  • Opinion

    Undeserved praise

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Cambridge residents may be surprised to learn we have to thank a "proactive" planning department for anything. (Works May 5) The ground-breaking development on Brooklands Avenue is not due to the planning department's efforts: quite the reverse.

  • Henrik Kiertzner
    Features

    Platform

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    This month: Henrik Kiertzner

  • Jonathan Manser
    Opinion

    Overseas students show superior skills

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Arriving in Karachi is an unusual experience. A significant number of the meeters and greeters are carrying rifles, the temperature is 34°C and on the way into town the armed guards and I are overtaken by a moped carrying a family of four; the woman rides side saddle with a ...

  • Liam Southwood
    Features

    Could I survive the loss of my laptop?

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Helpdesk: Each month, Liam Southwood, co-founder of IT consultancy nittygritty, discusses key IT issues and replies to readers' queries

  • Phillips: Wants to make RIBA less remote.
    News

    Sole practioner joins RIBA president race

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Rebel RIBA councillor Peter Phillips has entered the race for the RIBA presidency.

  • Ian Martin
    Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    The real secret in the Corb Papers is known only by a shadowy and ruthless cabal of modernists, possibly with a Latin name

  • This cut-away image of Assael's cinema development in Clapham, south London, is a composite drawing generated in Vectorworks, Cinema 4D and Photoshop.
    Features

    How we did IT

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Former Granada Cinema, London, by Assael Architecture

  • Rolfe Judd’s design for learning resource centre and IT suite at Holborn College, Charlton, south-east London.
    Features

    Wanted: help with paperwork

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Rolfe Judd director Ian McIntosh explains why his practice chose the practice management tool Workspace

  • Ben Stagg, DLA Architecture
    Technical

    Winning green hearts

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Is regulation or PR the way to win the sustainability debate? Elaine Knutt was at an Energy Saving Trust round table of architects looking for the answer

  • Opinion

    Greedy jibe unfair

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    As a construction lawyer who subscribes to BD and has written a number of standard form contracts, I was surprised by your argument (Leader May 12) that bespoke architects' appointments are created by lawyers to inflate their fees.

  • Wilkinson Eyre’s design for the redevelopment of the 1976 Museum of London was revealed this week.
    News

    Glazed over

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre's design for the redevelopment of the 1976 Museum of London was revealed this week.

  • “Building”, photograph by Brede Korsmo, from the Domestic Archaeology installation.
    Review

    Getting your house in order

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    This exhibition of domesticity needs decluttering

  • Gummer’s gurus: Richard Rogers
    News

    Tory vision of freedom

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Gummer proposes scrapping planning restrictions and building regs to liberate design

  • Opinion

    Foreign worker influx raises questions

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    There is a new army of foreign workers in Britain - and they're not Polish plumbers. They are architects who are finding that life here, particularly in London, has more to offer than it does back home. The numbers are impossible to gauge so BD thought it would do its ...

  • Delegates at the British Council for Offices conference, Dublin, embraced a green agenda.
    News

    Green rhetoric exceeds reality

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    A Dublin conference called for sustainability in offices, but agents are a stumbling block

  • Opinion

    Diana obsession

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Ivor Hall appears to have dedicated his life to the Diana Memorial. He has made countless requests to the DCMS under the Freedom of Information Act to gain information for a book.