All Building Design articles in 03 March 2006 – Page 2

  • Not-so-high life: Rogers in Knightsbridge
    News

    Bowater cut down to size

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    The Richard Rogers Partnership has finally won planning permission for the glamourous revamp of Bowater House in Knightsbridge by reducing the height of the scheme by one floor.

  • London office in partnership with an Iraqi practice, has led to a rather incongruous filing system in the office. Alongside box files on such homely names like Smethwick, Birmingham and Sedgefield sits a box labelled ‘Najaf’.
    Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    He may share his name with a musical instrument but it's his singing voice Renzo Piano intends to show off in London this summer, Boots was amused to hear.

  • News

    Planning deals boost Capita's turnover

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Multi-disciplinary giant Capita Symonds has cited its controversial but lucrative planning deals with local authorities as one of the reasons for its 23% rise in turnover to £200 million in 2005.

  • Chetwood’s Urban Oasis, a centrepiece of this year’s London Architecture Biennale, will interact with passers-by, changing its light display according to the time of day.
    News

    Blinking Biennale

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Chetwood Associates has unveiled this tree-like installation, a centrepiece of this year's London Architecture Biennale.

  • Baillieu: moving from RIBA Journal.
    News

    Baillieu new BD editor

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Amanda Baillieu has been appointed the next editor of Building Design.

  • News

    Edaw reworks Aylesbury estate

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Southwark council has appointed London Olympics masterplanner Edaw to work on the controversial Aylesbury Estate, which has already racked up bills of £1.5 million on a series of masterplans subsequently scrapped.

  • Opinion

    I'm off, but don't drop the artistry

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    I had decided that in my final leader before stepping down as BD editor I would ditch my usual attempt to make sense of the week's news and instead strike out into new ground.

  • A
    Features

    Architest

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    This week: Architects and archives

  • The GRP mezzanine platform will fix into the walls at the level of the bottom of the windows, so that views in or out will not be obstructed.
    Technical

    Geometry answer

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    A floating platform will turn a grand Georgian hall into a modern family space.

  • News

    Dream team gathers for Alsop's Boro plan

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    A dream team including Alsop Architects, Grimshaw, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Branson Coates, Fat and Studio Egret West has been drafted in to work on developer BioRegional Quintain's proposed flagship development Middlehaven in Middlesbrough.

  • Opinion

    Soapbox: Alex Michaelis

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Energy saving: start small, but start now

  • News

    Alsop to advise Arup on China's Dongtan project

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Will Alsop has been recruited to advise Arup on sustainable energy supply for the massive new city it is designing in China.

  • News

    Architects chosen for £850m Hackney project

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Ian Ritchie, Wilkinson Eyre and Shepheard Epstein Hunter are among the architects working on one of London's largest urban regeneration projects, the £850 million redevelopment of Hackney's Woodberry Down estate.

  • News

    Barts all set to go, £35m later

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    The £1.2 billion Royal London and Barts PFI hospital was set to be given the go-ahead this week, following more than two months of delays costing a staggering £35 million.

  • The challenge was to support the upper storey of glazing — shown here in the completed project — without designing a structural frame that would reduce the impact of the glazed entrance .
    Technical

    How we cracked it 24: Aurora Building, Bothwell Street, Glasgow

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    We had designed a new glazed entrance for an office building in Glasgow.