All Building Design articles in 30 June 2006

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  • Boris Johnson
    News

    Biennale downloads have arrived

    2006-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Listen to the best of the Biennale’s talks and debates recorded during the week.

  • The Savill Building
    News

    This Week

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The week in brief

  • Opinion

    Trust the trustees

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Richard Coleman (Letters June 16) implies that "learned professionals, though not heritage experts" failed to advise the Commonwealth Institute on planning law in relation to demolition of a listed building. This is not so.

  • This Monday sees the opening of a substantial extension to Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. It has been built to accommodate Colin St John Wilson’s gift to the nation of his £10 million art collection.
    News

    Tomorrow today

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    This Monday sees the opening of a substantial extension to Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. It has been built to accommodate Colin St John Wilson's gift to the nation of his £10 million art collection.

  • Powell Dobson Architects’ surfing scheme for Swansea’s leisure centre.
    News

    Spotcheck

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    This week - Wales

  • A ring by Felicity Peters.
    Review

    Soldering on

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    At a Clerkenwell jewellery exhibition, architectural inspiration has been taken on all levels from the literal to the metaphorical. Liz Hoggard reports

  • Stone me: Pawson’s Vernon Street project.
    Opinion

    Unfit for purpose

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    In the debate over the merits of demolishing or restoring the Commonwealth Institute some have overlooked the fact that buildings exist to serve clients in particular and society in general, not a narrow aesthetic agenda.

  • The inaugural RIBA Lubetkin prize was presented last Friday to Noero Wolff Architects for its Red Location Museum of the People’s Struggle in New Brighton, South Africa.
    News

    Power to the people

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The inaugural RIBA Lubetkin prize was presented last Friday to Noero Wolff Architects for its Red Location Museum of the People's Struggle in New Brighton, South Africa.

  • News

    RHWL scoops Pall Mall

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    RHWL has beaten Allies & Morrison to the development of a key regeneration site in central Liverpool.

  • Opinion

    Woolly liberals

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    That the sheep on the Biennale drive were "clearly suffering" is utter nonsense (Letters June 23).

  • While the art itself is lurid pop art, Wilson’s  gallery building is a model of restraint.
    News

    Wilson's latest labour of love

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Sandy Wilson is evidently a sucker for punishment.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    I need a new ‘-opolis' to seem really smart, and apparently ‘supercalifragilisticexpilalipolis' has already been taken

  • News

    Max Hastings slams free-market planning

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Staunch Tory supporter and president of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England

  • Opinion

    Form-making can transform society

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    It was a great honour to receive the Lubetkin Prize at the RIBA Awards on June 23. The award means a lot to me - particularly because Berthold Lubetkin has always been an architect whom I hold in the greatest regard.

  • The fully glazed design was chosen after earlier designs with less glazing were abandoned.
    News

    FOA shatters Part L hopes

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    The ability of Part L of the building regulations to cut carbon emissions was thrown into serious doubt this week with the unveiling of a fully glazed, 900,000sq m City office development by Foreign Office Architects.

  • "Today RIBA! Tomorrow the world!"
    News

    Phillips-induced riot fails to materialise

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    It was the day everyone had been waiting for: the first RIBA council since Peter Phillips was revealed as a member of the BNP.

  • News

    Six small firms on Elephant shortlist

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Six practices have been appointed to design the first replacement housing schemes for the run-down Heygate Estate in Elephant & Castle, south London.

  • BDP’s striking £16 million learning centre at Glasgow Caledonian University has won an RIBA award.
    News

    Drama lessons

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    BDP's striking £16 million learning centre at Glasgow Caledonian University has won an RIBA award.

  • A bombed-out post office in a Kosovan village inspired this image by London Metropolitan diploma students.
    Technical

    London Met's disaster MA fits the new world order

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Toni Ruttimann's story was about breaking the rules on international aid, rules which recent events have shown to be in any case changing.

  • Colligan: “Interesting polarisation”.
    News

    Farrells director sets up on his own

    2006-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Farrells' urban design director Garry Colligan has left the practice to set up his own firm.