All Building Design articles in 9 September 2005

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  • Opinion

    Tombs’ tones

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Is Architecture & Design Scotland chief executive Sebastian Tombs keeping busy enough? Tombs sent BD a poem this week reflecting on the connections between architecture and music.

  • Opinion

    Turning the tide

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Rest assured, Derek Abbott, our “ambitious” residential project on the foreshore at Folkestone (Letters, August 26) is not tempting providence with our attitude to the UK’s temperamental coastal conditions. We have spent considerable effort designing the scheme in consultation with the local authority and the Environment Agency to withstand ...

  • News

    Taskforce veterans query Prescott’s way

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Government plays down importance of looming verdict from Rogers and Co.

  • News

    People

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster, currently with prime minister Tony Blair on a trade mission in China, has been voted the most powerful man in the arts by The Times. Zaha Hadid, Will Alsop, David Adjaye and Ron Arad also featured in the 100-strong list.

  • News

    Practices split over PFI tactics

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Battle lines drawn between ‘boring’ big fish firms and schools of tiddlers in partnerships

  • News

    Original Olypic team shortlisted

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    The original design team behind London’s Olympic bid has been shortlisted for the detailed masterplan of the Olympic Park.

  • News

    North-west

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Housing panel The North West Development Agency and RIBA North West have revealed plans to establish a design review panel for areas of low housing demand in the region. The new panel will cover East Lancashire, Manchester and Salford, Merseyside and Oldham and Rochdale — housing renewal areas identified by ...

  • Opinion

    We’re no Nimbies

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Your article about plans for the relocation of a homeless/rough sleepers centre in York requires clarification (News, September 2).

  • Review

    Rebel leader

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Charlie Gates on a documentary that champions Soane’s US legacy

  • Opinion

    Keynes reminder

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Peter Stewart is right to call for a fresh approach to the structuring of urban growth with something like a new town revival (Soapbox, August 26).

  • News

    Thameslink inquiry opens

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    The second public inquiry into the £3 billion Thameslink 2000 service began this week. Network Rail opened by stating the case for the creation of the rail link between Bedford and Brighton that would introduce five extra trains an hour at peak times.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    “Owzat? Is architecture the new cricket? Darcy Farquear’say steers a cultural metaphor to the boundary”

  • News

    Hit and miss

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    London-based Make has won a competition to conduct a feasibility study for the Bandstand concert venue in Edinburgh. The appointment has disappointed some Scottish architects who resent Make’s presence in Scotland.

  • Opinion

    Pringle is our hero

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Jack Pringle’s recent words to BD and the changes at RMJM bring into focus the great professional debate. Are architects part of the arts community, providing the public something they never knew they wanted until they see it, or are we servicing a daily societal need?

  • See Sydney’s skyline with Foster’s
    Building Study

    Wish you were here?

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Just as England’s cricketers are finally teaching the Australians a thing or two, our architects are doing the same, with our very own hi-tech “barmy army” making a splash down under. But why aren’t more of us going?

  • Concrete Boots
    Opinion

    New plan for Thames Gateway is overdue

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Ten years since the Thames Gateway Planning Framework was published, “setting the framework for a sustained and sustainable programme of economic, social and environmental regeneration”, a new mind is being brought to bear on one of the biggest building challenges of our times.

  • Technical

    Gateway to Melbourne

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    A spectacular roof crowns Grimshaw’s Spencer Street Station

  • Foster & Partners has completed the shell of its controversial office development
    News

    Market forces

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has completed the shell of its controversial office development on the western side of Spitalfields Market in on the eastern fringe of the City of London, and is close to completing the retail space and landscaping for the scheme.

  • News

    Heritage groups find strength in numbers to fight owners

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    The leaders of every major heritage body in the UK are meeting later this month to plan a new campaign to protect Britain’s heritage from neglectful owners.

  • Opinion

    Eyes on the prize

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    I share Ellis Woodman’s admiration for Haworth Tompkins’ student housing (Works, September 2) and also his misgivings about the Stirling Prize. It goes to “the architects of the building which has been the most significant for the evolution of British architecture in the past year” so what does its shortlist ...