All Building Design articles in 6 January 2006

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  • News

    This Week

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    News roundup this week

  • Calatrava’s turning torso tower is just one of the projects that was designed for Malmö by major architects.
    Building Study

    Malmö model is a template for successful regeneration

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Malmö airport has witnessed a steady traffic of English officials over the past few months. Everyone from Cabe, the Housing Corporation, English Partnerships, Yorkshire Forward and the ODPM have been flocking to the city in search of the Holy Grail of successful regeneration.

  • News

    MacCormac row revealed

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    BBC forced to release letters surrounding architect’s controversial departure from Broadcasting House job

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    New Year’s resolutions

  • Technical

    Renewables red herring?

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Are windmills on buildings really the greenest option.

  • News

    RMJM plays heavy metal

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Designs for this curving, metal-skinned arts and music facility, dubbed the Music Box, were revealed this week by Scottish Parliament architect RMJM.

  • The Birmingham treatment centre
    News

    Healthy outlook

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    The Sheppard Robson-designed Birmingham Treatment Centre has been officially opened.

  • A residential building by Ralph Erskine provides the backdrop to this scene from Malmö Expo 2001.
    Opinion

    What’s our Games plan?

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    How can we ensure the London Olympics lives up to its legacy promise? Wayne Hemingway puts the case for another world event in 2012 — a housing and regeneration expo that will raise the bar for the Thames Gateway

  • News

    DoH urges Royal London rethink

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    The troubled Royal London PFI hospital in east London could be redesigned for the second time after the Department of Health called for a rethink of the plans.

  • Niall McLaughlin Architects’ Arc Centre in Hull
  • Hugh Broughton
    Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Hugh Broughton

  • News

    Mix-up over RIBA’s conservation list

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA’s attempts to resolve an ongoing row over its register of conservation architects descended into farce at last month’s council meeting when a new motion on the subject was not supported by the member expected to second it.

  • Buckminster Fuller teaching at Black Mountain College in 1948.
    Review

    Coming round the mountain

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    A show about Black Mountain College reveals a melting pot of the avant-garde.

  • Opinion

    Start city thinking from the outside

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    There is a whole profession that has grown up to educate Britain’s politicians, civil servants and local enterprise companies in the economic primacy of the “city region”.

  • News

    Gateway houses ‘characterless’

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Potential residents unimpressed by current designs

  • News

    Morecambe chance for ex-RRP four

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    A practice formed by four architects formerly with Richard Rogers Partnership has been shortlisted by Urban Splash to design a new promenade next to the Midland Hotel in Morecambe.

  • News

    Foster picked for third tower on World Trade Centre site

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster has been commissioned to design the third tower to be built at the site of the World Trade Centre in New York.

  • A six- storey, 46-unit residential care home is one of the buildings planned for the development.
    News

    Village offers care plan

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Plans for this care village for the elderly by Lifschutz Davidson Sandi-lands have been submitted to the west London borough of Hounslow.The 200-home scheme, on a 3ha site close to the Thames in Isleworth, is arranged around a grade II listed Georgian villa and will cater for a range of ...

  • Opinion

    Cameron’s eco home not just hollow PR

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    If David Cameron triumphs at the next general election, he could have an architect to thank.

  • News

    Practice boycotts Edinburgh council

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Firm says city’s planning process takes 60% longer to apply for building warrants in the capital than else-where in the country.