All Building Design articles in 02 December 2005 – Page 2

  • News

    School programme must ‘consult or fail’

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Education pressure group School Works has called for the government to reform its controversial schools delivery programme or risk “failing our children”.

  • Opinion

    Centralisation is killing our cities

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    A decade and a half after a resurgent Barcelona used culture and urban vigour to fire-up the Catalan economy, Britain is still struggling to understand the truth it illuminated: that cities, and their regions, are our primary economic powerhouses.

  • Mario Botta regards himself as an interpreter of his time.
    Review

    Spot of Botta

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    As Mario Botta’s first UK exhibition opens, Ellie Duffy wonders why he has never worked here

  • Concrete boots logo
    Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Top of the fopsFormer ambassador to Washington Christopher Meyer was branded a “red-socked fop” by deputy prime minister John Prescott last week after embarrassing revelations in his new book upset the government. In the same week, Boots saw Terry Farrell wearing red socks and asked him if that made him ...

  • The Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg
    Building Study

    Zaha’s blinding science

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg is the culmination of a career’s experimentation for Zaha Hadid. Was all worth it? Graham Bizley finds out

  • News

    Four-way fight for BBC site

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Ian Simpson Architects, Fairhurst Design Group, Hamilton Associates and EPR Architects will present early design work next week for four sites in move north of several major Manchester shortlisted for the BBC departments.

  • Verified image for Ian Simpson’s Albany Tower in Manchester using Brazil, Photoshop and 3D Studio Max version 8.
    Features

    Roadtest: Battling bugs in hasty upgrade

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Visualising firm Uniform puts 3D Studio Max v8 to work. Pete Thomas thinks Autodesk should test its upgrades more thoroughly

  • Primary trusses for the cantilevered roof of the walkway and stage will be grouted and bolted, but secondary elements will be tied with rope.
    Technical

    Building bamboo’s reputation

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    A Feilden Clegg Bradley project in India is proving bamboo’s worth as a building material.

  • 1.
    Features

    Architest

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    This week: Zaha Hadid

  • Adam house: redefining neo-classicism?
    News

    Adam: Modernists are like martians

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    At one end of the spectrum of our profession we have an architect based in Winchester, designing exuberant country houses for Russian millionaires; at the other an architect working in Clerkenwell on gritty inner city affordable housing.

  • Winners of BD’s 2005 Architect of the Year Awards celebrate at Tuesday night’s ceremony, which was held at the London Hilton.
    News

    900 attend BD awards gala

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Bennetts Associates and Lynch Architects top the list of winners

  • A steel pin attached to the seating rake’s steelwork slots into an eye hook on the end of the winch chain.
    Technical

    How we cracked it 19: Peepul Centre, Leicester

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The challenge: To create removable, tiered seating for a flexible performance space

  • News

    KPF’s Bishopsgate tower shrinks 19m

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The proposed height of KPF’s Bishopsgate Tower has been cut by 19m to 305m, following protests by English Heritage and the Civil Aviation Authority.

  • News

    No 10

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Eric Parry Architects has been appointed by the Crown Estate to redevelop 10 Whitehall Place in central London.