All Building Design articles in 26 February 2010
View all stories from this issue.
-
Opinion
From yachts to socks – a user's guide to getting the most from Mipim
The annual Mipim property fair is one of the industry's rites of passage. With this year’s event looming around the corner, we ask three old hands to offer their top tips on how to make it work for you
-
News
New cladding competition launched for Guy's Hospital
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London has launched its second architectural competition in less than a month, seeking expressions of interest for a £21 million cladding project.
-
News
Wilkinson Eyre's New Bodleian awaits chapter and verse
Wilkinson Eyre has unveiled its plans for the £78 million restoration of the New Bodleian library building in Oxford.
-
News
Marsh plants seeds of Meadows
Nottingham-based practice Marsh Grochowski has revealed images of its £8 million 38-home sustainable housing development for developer Blueprint.
-
News
Home emissions plan welcomed
The RIBA and the UK Green Building Council have welcomed the government’s latest strategy to reduce household energy emissions.
-
News
Bomber memorial design on show
Liam O’Connor has unveiled his design for a £3 million memorial in London’s Green Park to the 55,573 men of the Bomber Command air crew who died during the Second World War.
-
News
Cyclists gear up for Cannes ride
Riders participating in Cycle To Cannes, the annual sponsored bicycle ride to Mipim, have reached the last leg of fundraising before the ride starts next Thursday.
-
News
Fretton associate forms new practice
Sandy Rendel, an associate at Tony Fretton Architects, has announced that he is to set up a new London-based Sandy Rendel Architects.
-
News
Science Museum set to launch £25 million design competition
The Science Museum will launch an international design competition for a £25 million new set of galleries this autumn.
-
News
Battersea Power Station project threatened by heritage row
A row has erupted over a little-known pumping station that threatens to derail Rafael Vinoly’s entire £5.5 billion redevelopment of Battersea Power Station.
-
News
Strong shortlist for new Design Museum
Tony Fretton, Stanton Williams, David Chipperfield, John Pawson, Caruso St John, Haworth Tompkins and Dutch firm Claus en Kaan are in the race to create a new home for the Design Museum inside London’s former Commonwealth Institute building.
-
Competitions
Free to a good home: 'Architecture Australia'- issues dating from 2005-2007.
Architecture AustraliaWe have a medium sized pile of issues of Architecture Australia' dating from 2005-2007 to give away from our archives clearance. All magazines are in good condition.Collection is from BD towers (Blackfriars, London) only.
-
Multimedia
I.M Pei on the Hyperboloid (animation)
Watch an animation of, and hear I.M Pei talk about, the Hyperboloid – the building that wasn't built.
-
News
Aberdeen graduates visualise controversial City Square project
A group of young graduates have created a series of visualisations of how the controversial £140 million redevelopment of Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens could look.
-
News
Libeskind's Dublin Canal Theatre completes
Daniel Libeskind's €75 million (£68 million) Grand Canal Theatre project in Dublin has completed, with the grand opening of the new 2000-seat venue due to take place in a fortnight.
-
News
OMA partner quits to set up new practice
OMA partner Ole Scheeren has confirmed he is leaving the practice to set up his own practice.
-
News
Prominent 1930s office building refurbished by DLG Architects
DLG Architects has completed a £3 million renovation of the grade II-listed Sunlight House in Spinningfields, Manchester’s new commercial district.
-
News
Cartwright Pickard's Wakefield office block gets go-ahead
A new council office development designed by Cartwright Pickard Architects has been given the green light by council planners in West Yorkshire.
-
News
Prince's letter that helped sink Chelsea Barracks plan revealed
Prince Charles described Richard Rogers’ designs for Chelsea Barracks as “brutalist” in a letter which helped thwart the landmark development.
-
News
Competition launched to design new River Severn crossing
Architects, engineers and students of both disciplines are being given the chance to design a potential new crossing of the River Severn under a new ideas competition.