All Building Design articles in 31 March 2006

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  • The City of London has unveiled designs by Hamilton Associates
    News

    This Week

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    A round-up of news this week

  • Massimiliano Fuksas will design the 69,000sq m Euromed Centre in Marseilles.
    News

    Signature swirl

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Massimiliano Fuksas will design the 69,000sq m Euromed Centre in Marseilles.

  • D5 Architects has designed this sports hall for North East Worcestershire College.
    News

    Spotcheck: West Midlands

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Our weekly regional news focus

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    We all agree there'd be no harm in running events under the title Islamophilia, say, or Rockin' Mosques

  • The Bridge, designed by Broadway Malyan with Hemingway Design, was about to be launched on Thursday as BD went to press.
    News

    Hemingway houses

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    The Bridge, designed by Broadway Malyan with Hemingway Design, was about to be launched on Thursday as BD went to press.

  • Architect Peter Salter (left) with developer — and former student —  Crispin Kelly of Baylight Properties.
    Building Study

    The story of the tortoise and the hare

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Peter Salter had all but retired from practice in the nineties, devoting his time to teaching until former student Crispin Kelly, now in the fast-paced world of developing, sought him out to create four bespoke houses in Notting Hill. His unusual plans have not disappointed.

  • Joseph Emberton’s Royal Corinthian Yacht Club (1931) at Burnham-on Crouch, Essex.
    Review

    Is the future in the past?

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Should modernism be confined to history or does it still guide architecture today? As the V&A launches a major retrospective exhibition, Zoë Blackler asks six commentators: has modernism finally had its day?

  • Wilkinson Eyre has designed a new museum to house the Mary Rose, a Tudor warship, at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
    News

    Shipping forecast

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre has designed a new museum to house the Mary Rose, a Tudor warship, at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

  • Review

    Fifty years of lounging

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    It's been 50 years since the launch of Charles and Ray Eames's lounge chair, upholstered in leather and veneered in rosewood.

  • Opinion

    Quiet diplomacy grabs no headlines

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    It is the lot of advisory bodies, especially those funded by government, to be on the receiving end of accusations that they are either not toeing the line by slavishly praising the latest government policy initiative, or that they are supine recipients of taxpayer largesse, content to do the government's ...

  • Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    This week: Jenny Holzer

  • News

    Livingstone clears way for King's Cross project

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Argent's £2 billion redevelopment of the land around King's Cross cleared another hurdle this week, when London mayor Ken Livingstone gave his official backing to the scheme.

  • News

    Changes to gallery ‘are vandalism'

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Caruso St John snubbed at Walsall

  • News

    Tate is frontrunner to host creativity centre

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    The Tate Modern in London has emerged as the hot favourite to house the soon-to-be-created National Centre for Creativity & Innovation.

  • News

    Cabe panel slams scale of Rogers' Cambridge plans

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Cabe has blasted Richard Rogers' proposals for a 100,000sq m development in Cambridge for the Ashwell Property Group.

  • Michael Speaks has identified a new kind of innovative architect.
    Review

    A new breed of intelligence

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Theory is dead. Long live architecture, says Los Angeles writer Michael Speaks. Ellie Duffy heard him talk at the AA

  • Book-case with suspended shelves, designed by Carlo Mollino for the Casa Editrice Lattes publishing house, Turin, 1952.
    Review

    Breaking the rules

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    A book on Italian designer Carlo Mollino lavishly showcases his fantastically engineered furniture, but, writes Emma Dent Coad, he had other strings to his bow

  • News

    Rushed part L forces councils to break law

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Building control officers say they will not be able to enforce new carbon-cutting legislation for six months after it becomes law next week.

  • Holiday-makers in the Maldives are more used to thinking about sun, sea and sand than solar power — but that is set to change following a landmark project by low carbon design consultant XC02.
    News

    Have biofuel will travel

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Holiday-makers in the Maldives are more used to thinking about sun, sea and sand than solar power - but that is set to change following a landmark project by low carbon design consultant XC02.

  • Leeds Canal Basin scheme: Grossly over- intensive?
    News

    Last-ditch bid to stop Leeds plans

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    CZWG ‘staggeringly insensitive'