All Building Design articles in 27 April 2007

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  • Technical

    Cool Wall: Rank the retail projects - images

    2007-05-11T13:49:00Z

    Sybarite's new Milan boutique for fashion label Marni is among the latest additions to the Cool Wall. Vote on all competing retail projects - including Universal Design Studio's Liberty revamp and MMM's showroom for Swarovski - to affect their ranking and for the chance to win an iTunes token

  • Mystery building 3
    Features

    Students: Win a trip to Amsterdam

    2007-05-03T17:39:00Z

    Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands is offering one lucky student the chance to join its office outing to Holland this month. Identify the famous Dutch buildings for the chance to win

  • Play Time: Dejan Sudjic's 1976 review
    Building Study

    Play Time

    2007-05-03T14:40:00Z

    Dejan Sudjic reports on the playstructure designed by Florian Beigel's students in the long hot summer of 1976

  • Competitions

    For sale - Misc

    2007-05-03T14:21:00Z

    For sale: Drawing Board 1100mm x 820mm, parallel motion, spring action with lock, white £50; 2 drawer Filing Cabinet £15 white; Reebok excercise bike cost £199 now £75; Brother Knitting Machine KH 840, used once,with folding table, manual, other accessories £50.Contact Elaine Charlesworth 0208 878 6317

  • Competitions

    For sale - Epson inkjet printer

    2007-05-03T14:19:00Z

    Epson Stylus Photo 2100 A3 colour inkjet photo printer, complete with CD printing accessories. Simply too big for my workspace!£100 and buyer collects from Islington. Cost £500 three years ago.Also for sale old but decent 35mm slide projector. £75.e-mail john@harrises.eu

  • Competitions

    For sale - Ozaminor printer

    2007-05-03T14:12:00Z

    Ozaminor 33FL Diazo Printer complete with Machine, stand, cover, 20 litres Ammonia Solution and operating & service instruction manual. 3 x 140 watt Hi Actinic Lamps, Maximum Print Width - 1220 mm (48"), Maximum Print Speed - 400 metres/hour (22 f.p.m.).Machine Dimensions - Height with Stand 1060 mm (41 ...

  • Architect of the Year award winners
    Competitions

    Architect of the Year Awards 2007 - Now open to entries

    2007-05-03T12:53:00Z

    Is your work consistently excellent? Do you keep raising the bar with every building you design? Does your architecture wow your clients as much as the magazine editors? BD’s Architect of the Year Awards were set up three years ago to give you the recognition you deserve.

  • The twin towers were felled by fire following the aircrafts’ impact.
    Technical

    The revolutionary skyscraper fire alarm

    2007-05-02T16:18:00Z

    A revolutionary warning system for tall buildings which could help avert another 9/11-type disaster has been hailed by leading architects.The FireGrid system, developed over the past decade by Edinburgh University professor Jose Torero and funded by the BRE and Arup, comprises a system of sensors attached to a remote computer ...

  • Features

    Why the standing ovation?

    2007-05-02T12:36:00Z

    Where is former RIBA president Owen Luder and why is everyone clapping? Were you there? What was the event? Tell us what you remember in the second of our new series of pictures from BD's archive

  • Opinion

    Blog: The value conundrum

    2007-04-30T13:19:00Z

    Nick Johnson has a Thought about the difference between green buildings and organic broccoli

  • News

    Crystal Palace towers to be rebuilt

    2007-04-30T12:52:00Z

    Brunel's 280ft water towers at south London's Crystal Palace Park will be recreated as sustainable energy towers under plans drawn up by German landscape architect Latz & Partner.The two original towers, which were removed during the second world war, stored water to feed a series of spectacular fountains at a ...

  • Ian Martin
    News

    News Junkie: 28 and 29 April

    2007-04-30T11:24:00Z

    In this despatch: bins, earthquakes, Cornwall's sulky surfers, a professor of human radiation, 'tall, brick, barley-sugar chimneys thrusting skywards in a thicket', and why God's not Green.

  • Competitions

    Holiday let – Cevennes, France

    2007-04-27T17:09:00Z

    Handsome old house (not immaculate but beautiful rooms) on village square.

  • Competitions

    For sale – House in Harrogate

    2007-04-27T16:06:00Z

    Victorian stone semi, south side, five bedroom. Full CH, garage, short walk to town, well placed for good schools.

  • Building Study

    Liberty, Regent Street, London W1

    2007-04-27T15:31:00Z

    Universal Design Studio has redesigned the store's central atrium to reflect the retailer's renaissance

  • Building Study

    The Brewery, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

    2007-04-27T15:10:00Z

    ESA's £20 million scheme for Salmon Harvester on the site of a listed brewery has a sleek zinc roof with sky opening

  • Building Study

    Asprey & Garrard, New Bond Street, London W1

    2007-04-27T14:55:00Z

    Foster & Partners' design for the flagship London store reflects the jewller's bold vision

  • Marni’s Milan shop
    Building Study

    Marni shop, Milan

    2007-04-27T14:28:00Z

    At Sybarite's new Milan boutique for fashion label Marni the whole shop becomes the window display

  • Swarovski showroom Wattens
    Building Study

    Swarovski showroom, Innsbruck, by MMM

    2007-04-27T13:00:00Z

    MMM designs new commission for Austrian crystal designer Swarovski

  • For sale 3D software licence
    Competitions

    For sale - Archicad 10

    2007-04-27T12:03:00Z

    Full commercial licence Archicad 9 originally purchased from Graphisoft via Bite Design and full upgrade included to Release 10.