All Building Design articles in 3 February 2006

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  • Allies & Morrison has been appointed to design the Elizabeth House tower in Waterloo
    News

    This Week

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Round up of this weeks news..

  • Michael Laird Architects’newly completed £240 million world headquarters for the Royal Bank of Scotland in Gogarburn, Edinburgh.
    News

    Spotcheck

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Scotland

  • News

    Treasury signals PFI reform

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    The Treasury has given its clearest indication so far that it is willing to reform the controversial PFI process in line with RIBA president Jack Pringle's Smart PFI model.

  • Jackson
    News

    Jackson walks the walk

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Richard Jackson, a paediatrician by profession and the former health adviser for California state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, was in London last week to tell none other than Prince Charles how the design of our environment has a massive influence on our health.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    We could still fleece the bus fetishists with a Routemaster dodgem rink

  • MoVoCoSy, or modular volumetric construction system
    Technical

    Is the prefab revolution on hold?

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    They've been heralded as the future of building and the solution to housing shortages, yet prefabs have failed to take off. Elaine Knutt asks whether they still have a future

  • News

    Liverpool takes heritage hardline

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    The new leadership of Liverpool City Council will take a strong pro-heritage stance, refusing to "sit back and accept" the kind of proposals it would have "welcomed in the 1990s", it said this week.

  • Opinion

    Get ready for the robo-building

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    The power politics between designer and contractor could be about to change for ever.

  • Tony Fretton and his large scale development
    Building Study

    Tony Fretton: A shift in scale

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    It’s a tricky step for any architect to move from the small to the large scale. Tony Fretton is making the leap with three high-end residential schemes in Amsterdam, but has he has managed the transition?

  • The Lots Road proposal is for  a mixed-use scheme that includes two towers, creation of more than 400 homes and the renovation of the 1904 power station.
    News

    Farrell's Lots Road gets nod from Prescott

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Terry Farrell’s controversial Chelsea development Lots Road is finally set to go ahead after deputy prime minister John Prescott overturned the decision of a planning inspector.

  • Quintin Lake’s The fifth season London/world is one of several AA student projects exploring the relation between architecture and film, on show at the exhibition.
    Review

    Film theory fails to project

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    David Cunningham on a cinematic architectural installation at the AA

  • News

    NHS heralds fresh era in hospital design

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Patricia Hewitt signalled the end of the grand hospital this week when she unveiled a white paper ushering in a new generation of around 50 cottage hospitals providing out-patient services within local communities.

  • News

    Southwark to set up its own design review panel

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    An elite team of architects, many building in the borough, will begin advising the London Borough of Southwark on design next week after Cabe complained its design review panel was swamped with schemes from the authority.

  • Germaine Greer: outspoken intelligence.
    Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Neil Spiller

  • Foster & Partners’ scheme for the London Borough of Croydon looks set to go ahead after a dramatic u-turn by the council.
    News

    Croydon surprise

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners' scheme for the London Borough of Croydon looks set to go ahead after a dramatic u-turn by the council.

  • East and West German border guards join in the demolition of the Berlin Wall following its fall in November 1989.
    Review

    Destruction as cultural cleansing

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    A new book examines how attackers use the tactical eradication of architecture.

  • The future
    News

    The changing face of healthcare...

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    The looming revolution in healthcare architecture could even surpass the radical changes which transformed hospitals in Britain with the creation of the NHS in 1947.

  • Plan of the Olympic grounds
    News

    Olympic changes

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    The designs that helped win London the Olympic Games in 2012 have been updated after a land deal with the owners of the nearby Stratford City development in east London.

  • Caruso St John has designed a 10,000sq m white concrete culture centre for Ascona, Switzerland.
    News

    Caruso St John's crowning glory

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Caruso St John Architects has beaten a shortlist which included Zaha Hadid and Peter Markli in the competition to build a Centre for Tourism & Culture in the Swiss-Italian town of Ascona.

  • News

    Group to campaign over Israel/Palestine projects

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    A pressure group aiming to spotlight the political role of Israeli architects in the occupation of Palestinian territories was set to be launched yesterday (Thursday) as BD went to press.