All Building Design articles in 8 September 2006

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  • News

    This week

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    This week in brief

  • Opinion

    Unfeasibility study

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    The house plans in the “Sustainability report” (Concrete Quarterly, September 1) will create more heat from users than the building conserves due to its mean layout.

  • Review

    Can Sheffield pull it off?

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    The British offering at the Venice Biennale paints an optimistic picture of the city’s future, but will it ever be realised? Zoë Blackler goes looking for the big ideas that could turn Sheffield around

  • News

    A peace of work

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    A ceremony marking the opening of Foster & Partners’ Palace of Peace & Reconciliation in Astana, Kazakhstan, took place on Monday.

  • News

    This week: The North-west

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Our weekly regional news round up

  • Opinion

    Marina madness

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    I thought last week’s letter from Chris Teague of Cardiff was incredibly rude: tragically, Wales is the home of the plastic window and what good vernacular architecture they had has mostly been trashed.

  • News

    Timber row turns incendiary

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    In the wake of the massive Colindale fire, the timber-frame industry again finds itself fighting for survival — and traditional manufacturers have not been slow to fan the flames.

  • News

    Scottish watchdog signs up Hoskins

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Scotland’s design watchdog this week announced a groundbreaking agreement with the Scottish Executive that it claims will give health projects north of the border the edge over those in England.

  • Opinion

    Gorilla warfare

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    There was I thinking that award-winning penguin pools and elephant houses were regarded as inappropriate in the 21st century, when BD devoted a whole page to the “ingeniously constructed” new gorilla enclosure at London Zoo (Solutions, August 25).

  • News

    Gherkin’s new neighbour

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Allies & Morrison inadvertently gave a sneak preview of a new tower next to the Gherkin with this model display in its office window.

  • Building Study

    Games lesson

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    A tight budget but lots of empathy with the building’s users have created a basic but imaginatively light and airy structure housing a nursery and youth centre.

  • Opinion

    Frosty reception

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    I was a bit surprised at Amanda Birch’s slighting references to the BBC2 Blizzard programme in her article on Scott’s hut (Solutions, September 1).

  • Opinion

    Forget your peers, give us practicality

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Architects hate Building Regulations because they represent, however crudely or simplistically, a kind of feedback from society.

  • Technical

    Naples goes with the flow

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Rogers’ swirling, whirling roof to the Capodichino underground station is a bold statement.

  • Opinion

    Watch your figure

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    As chief executive of Local Authority Building Control, I was very concerned to read your front page story headlined: “Two in three architects believe building control damages design quality” (News, September 1).

  • Opinion

    Lost in exhibition

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    In 1967 at the Regent Street Polytechnic evening school of architecture I was awarded the Sir Bannister Fletcher prize for thesis design by Jim Stirling (with others).

  • Opinion

    Sifting through the embers for reason

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    The timber industry is on a roll, thanks to the government.

  • Technical

    Modular roofing made easy

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Bus shelters are just the beginning for Bryden Wood Associates’ clip-on roof cassettes.

  • Technical

    I wish Id done that...Roof

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Debby Kuypers on Kengo Kuma’s Hiroshige Ando Museum in Bato, Japan

  • News

    Doctoring the docks

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Masterplanner Broadway Malyan has unveiled proposals for Wirral Waters, which it claims is the largest regeneration project in the country.