All Building Design articles in 01 December 2006

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  • News

    This Week

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    This Week in brief

  • Riots in Dhaka prompted the CAA conference’s postponement.
    Opinion

    Urban urgency

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Your report on the postponement of our conference Society, Architects and Emerging Issues (News November 24) did not mention the new dates for the event which are March 17 to 21, 2007.

  • News

    Spotcheck

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    This week: East Anglia

  • Opinion

    Small risk

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Your leader last week highlighted how very tiny a risk is presented to clients by small practices and sole architects with a low turnover.

  • Opinion

    Reform’s school

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Jee Eun Lee and John Assael (Letters November 24) have every right to be incensed at the cost of the Arb assessment process; £2,400 for a process directly comparable to that which the RIBA administers for £250 simply cannot be justified.

  • Opinion

    Can RIBA redress?

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA has been considering issues of consumer protection over the past year and how clients like Mr and Mrs Shaw (News analysis November 24) could best be served.

  • Review

    Momentary lapse

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Birmingham architecture from the sixties and seventies is the unlikely inspiration for an exhibition of digital time-lapse photography by artist Perry Roberts.

  • News

    Tees Valley says yes to Marge Simpson’s hair

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    A flagship development near Middlesbrough by architects including Will Alsop, Grimshaw, Feilden Clegg Bradley and Studio Egret West will go ahead after terms were agreed with developer BioRegional Quintain.

  • Features

    Guilty pleasures

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    As Erick van Egeraat puts the final touches to his first UK building, Middlesbrough’s new Art Gallery, he talks to Zoë Blackler about guilt, the Gateway and a life in hotel rooms.

  • Review

    Got a new motor?

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Rob Voerman’s Annex#4 is half car, half cabin and typical of the Dutch artist’s preoccupation with social order.

  • News

    Young firms lined up for Liverpool housing

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Urban Splash has assembled a crack team of young practices for a trailblazing housing scheme in south central Liverpool.

  • Opinion

    A good news week for Olympic design

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Just when things were looking chronically bleak for those charged with delivering the London Olympics, this week has good news not just for architects, but for anyone who was worried the games would be a missed opportunity for the UK’s talented pool of designers.

  • Zaha Hadid’s Olympic Aquatics Centre has been scaled down, but will still be an iconic symbol of the 2012 games.
    News

    ‘Design is at the heart of what we are doing here’

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Ricky Burdett is to become design adviser to the London Olympics after mounting critcism that the design of the 2012 games is being handed to contractors.

  • News

    Government slashes density requirements

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The government has scrapped its plans to force local authorities to build to densities of up to 70 dwellings per ha, it was announced this week.

  • Opinion

    Learning curve

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Your report on earn-and-learn in architectural education (News November 24) omitted to say that the project is led by Schosa (Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture), is based at the Centre for Excellence in Professional Learning from the Workplace within the University of Westminster, and is partnered by ...

  • Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    This week with Mark Garcia

  • Opinion

    Insurance should rest with the client

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Your articles last week (News and News analysis) expose the fault line in the business of insurance in the building industry.

  • News

    Ken fumes at climate change underestimate

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    All the climate change predictions for London to date have been wrong, mayor Ken Livingstone revealed at last week’s Thames Gateway Forum.

  • News

    Carbon neutral homes for Prince’s Poundbury

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Prince Charles has handpicked an architectural practice to design a carbon-neutral extension to his flagship Poundbury development in Dorchester.

  • Opinion

    Why UK housing can’t just go Dutch

    2006-12-01T00:00:00Z

    In creating South-east England’s growth areas to boost housing supply, the Department for Communities & Local Government, and previously the ODPM, encouraged the UK building industry to look to modern methods of construction and procurement. Within this, the Netherlands was cited as a precedent.