All Building Design articles in 02 December 2005

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  • mixed-use development by Paul Whitley Architects
    News

    This Week

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Hit and miss

  • CMC Architects’ £2 million park-and-ride facility is the first in Chelmsford
    News

    Spotcheck

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    East Anglia

  • Salford Arts and Media centre
    News

    Salford saviour

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Danish practice 3XNielsen has designed this building to form the hub of a new arts and media quarter in Salford, Greater Manchester.

  • The London Markaz, meaning “centre”, will hold 40,000 people.
    News

    Olympic site mosque

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    A London-based practice has pledged to “reinterpret Islamic architecture” with a giant mosque next to the Olympics site.

  • News

    New planning powers for mayor

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Ken Livingstone is set to take control of planning on major London sites, such as Elephant & Castle, White City and the Olympic Park.

  • News

    London’s play station

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Keith Williams Architects’ £9 million new Unicorn Theatre for children opened this week.

  • York House, Lambeth
    News

    Lambeth talk

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    KPF may have had to cut the height of its proposed Bishopsgate Tower, but it got some good news this week with the granting of planning permission for this 90,000sq m office building in Lambeth.

  • John Plowman is making presentational sketch kits at his Twilight Shift exhibition.
    Review

    John Plowman and me

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    John Plowman’s art reminds me of the importance of finding time to draw. I don’t think architects these days draw so often, especially younger ones who were brought up with computers.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Review of 2005

  • News

    High water mark

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Fletcher Priest Architects has unveiled this image of its proposed refurbishment of a sixties building, set to be one of the largest users of geothermal cooling in the country.

  • Young architect of the year award logo
    Competitions

    Young and gifted

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    This year’s Young Architect of the Year Award revealed a wealth of developing British talent. BD applauds the winners

  • Opinion

    Signs of trust in the next generation

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Patrick Lynch gave a humble acceptance speech when he picked up our Young Architect of the Year Award on Tuesday night. He said he was proud to have been part of such a strong shortlist, adding he only hoped he could deliver on the trust that had been put in ...

  • News

    Gateway record slammed

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Gummer urges greater consistency

  • News

    Firms jittery as health freezes over

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Practices leave sector as reforms put projects on ice

  • News

    ...but Farrell’s green vision welcomed

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Terry Farrell’s vision of a green Thames Gateway won praise from housing minister Yvette Cooper at the forum.

  • News

    Farrell leaves by tube

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    South Ken project breaks down

  • After a full survey and site photograph, a VVM is created using 3D Studio Max, as with this example by M3FX for Hamilton Associates.
    Features

    Exacting visions

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Architects are increasingly turning to visually verified montages to prove how schemes will look

  • News

    Evening rocks with frocks, socks and glowing shots

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Ah, award ceremonies. The bright lights, the loud dance music, and the urban drumming tribe fresh from Glastonbury to entertain us in the interlude. This was no ordinary award ceremony, this was the second year of BD’s Architect of the Year Awards.

  • Chuck Hoberman’s temporary retractable iris dome at the Frauenkirche, Dresden.
    Review

    The drama unfolds

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Hoberman’s work is ingenious, but what is it for? asks Kester Rattenbury

  • News

    Cream of Jersey ‘goes to mainland’

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Design quality in Jersey is suffering because major developments are handed to outside architects rather than local firms, it was claimed this week.