All Building Design articles in 01 August 2008 – Page 3

  • News

    Olympic screens plan ‘like Currys’

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Cabe has objected to plans to erect up to 60 giant television screens as permanent installations in cities and towns in time for the 2012 Olympics.

  • News

    Seven listed for Douglas Crossing

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA has announced that seven teams are competing to design the River Douglas crossing near Preston, Lancashire.

  • Opinion

    Critical theory

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Actor Gabriel Byrne may not have lived in Ireland for 20 years but he still clearly feels a strong attachment.

  • Birmingham post & mail
    News

    New Street contest comes off the tracks

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Critics fear that Foreign Office Architects will lose all control to Atkins

  • Opinion

    Social climbing

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    First there were rats, then the temperature control went haywire. Now a new problem is besetting Renzo Piano’s New York Times building.

  • Opinion

    A new climate for schools?

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Sunand Prasad is right (News July 25). The lack of any real examination, as he states, of “normal life” from our schools of architecture is I agree “intellectual dereliction”.

  • Lewis & Hickey has won planning permission for this 370sq m private house in the Chilterns.
    News

    Chilterns gets sett

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Lewis & Hickey has won planning permission for this 370sq m private house in the Chilterns.

  • The leisure centre outperforms Building Regs by at least 35%.
    Technical

    Studio E’s Woodside Leisure Centre

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Cathy Strongman talks to architect Studio E and Max Fordham Consulting Engineers about the sustainable services solutions they choose for Watford’s Woodside Leisure Centre

  • Arrowhead
    Features

    Are fuel cells the future of heating?

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Pamela Buxton looks at planned London office projects by SOM and Wilkinson Eyre that will use this sustainable method of generating heat and power

  • News

    Canalside scheme launched

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Stiff & Trevillion Architects has completed the mixed-use Portobello Dock scheme for developer Derwent London.

  • News

    Camden’s streets set for makeover

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Camden Council in London has unveiled the first stage of plans to improve the Camden Town area.

  • Opinion

    Wake-up call

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The final note of the Oxford Conference was very positive.

  • Opinion

    Icing on the cake

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Buildings, furniture, shoes, perfume and now baking — is there no end to Zaha’s skills?

  • Angela Salt
    Features

    My contractor has just gone bust

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    My contractor has just become insolvent. Where does this leave me?

  • Noel Farrer
    News

    BSF ‘fails to tackle outdoor space’

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future Programme has been slammed as a “gross missed opportunity” for outdoor space and landscaping by a leading landscape architect.

  • Should applicants have a choice of who processes their proposal?
    Opinion

    Should Britain’s planning services be privatised?

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Brian Waters of the Association of Consultant Architects, to give planning an injection of resources and vision; no, says Phil Kirby of the Planning Officers’ Society, who wants planning services to remain accountable to local communities

  • Opinion

    Your breakfast can change the world

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Feeding cities has a greater physical impact on the planet than anything else we do

  • The Skyscraper & the City: the Woolworth Building & the Making of Modern New York, by Gail Fenske.
    Review

    Books round-up

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    This week

  • Opinion

    Brought to book

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Hold on to your handbags, ladies — at least when young architects are around.

  • News

    Hodge criticised over heritage bill

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Culture minister Margaret Hodge has been slated by MPs over the draft heritage protection bill, which they claim will cost far more to implement than claimed and is badly undermined by a lack of local authority skills.