All Building Design articles in 03 October 2008 – Page 3

  • Gilbert Booth’s 1934 house in Kent.
    News

    The Modern House moves into lettings

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Estate agent the Modern House, which specialises in the sale of 20th century homes, has launched a new rental service in the face of the country’s dramatic housing slowdown.

  • The new 2.2ha Chavasse Park sits atop a car park and is dominated by an apartment building by Pelli Clarke Pelli with Brock Carmichael.
    Building Study

    If paradise is half as nice

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The long awaited retail project at Paradise Street is a last-ditch attempt to recharge Liverpool’s city centre through a masterplan that pulls together 22 different architects. And it works, says Ellis Woodman

  • Saltdean Lido by Richard William Herbert Jones, 1938.
    Review

    Unbuilt greats

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Unrealised designs by leading architects for projects in London are on show at the AA.

  • Opinion

    Going west

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Never let it be said that shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey is afraid of upsetting developers.

  • The designs have rooms that are completely below ground level.
    News

    Luxury homes go underground

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Thomas de Cruz Architects has won planning permission for two 500sq m houses in west London.

  • News

    Move to get rid of student ghettos

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The government has called for new planning mechanisms to tackle the overconcentration of student housing in neighbourhoods.

  • From left to right: Reyner Banham, Nikolaus Pevsner and John Summerson at the RIBA, 1961.
    Review

    Past, present and future

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Anthony Vidler plots the influence of four architectural historians on their time, says Thomas Muirhead

  • Opinion

    Waste free

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    It is right to raise the retention fee increase as a matter of concern but wrong to suggest that Arb is on a spending spree.

  • Opinion

    Join the transition from fear to hope

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    As peak oil and climate change threaten our way of life, transition towns look to the future

  • Opinion

    It's in the fabric

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Renzo Piano’s San Francisco California Academy of Sciences has given a new meaning to rooting design in the environment.

  • News

    Land extension shortlist revealed

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster and Daniel Libeskind are in the lead to win an £8 billion project to extend Monaco out to sea.

  • Review

    Essence of Ritchie

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Poetry, drawings, photography, models, components, materials and books capture the essence of 20 international projects by Ian Ritchie Architects.

  • News

    Findlay returns with eco-houses scheme

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Kathryn Findlay has returned to practice after three years’ sabbatical, with this residential project in Preston, Lancashire.

  • News

    Three on Ebbsfleet Landmark list

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Three artists — Daniel Buren, Richard Deacon and Mark Wallinger — have been shortlisted to create the £2 million Ebbsfleet Landmark, the largest public art commission since Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North.

  • News

    This week's ups & downs

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Hot and not

  • RHG: Hodge exit raises hopes.
    Opinion

    Hodge dodge

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Does Margaret Hodge’s desire to stand down from government mean a reprieve for Robin Hood Gardens?

  • Features

    Lipton takes his development to the top

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    In the 1980s building boom, developer Stuart Lipton was king, and Thatcher was his queen

  • The National Trust needs to raise £3m for the 1719 Seaton Delaval.
    News

    Top names rally to save Seaton Delaval

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    A roll call of some of Britain’s leading modern architects — from Terry Farrell and Peter Cook to Will Alsop — have backed a National Trust campaign to buy one of John Vanbrugh’s most renowned buildings for public use.

  • Opinion

    Salad days

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    A phone call to Terry Farrell’s office sparked a trip down memory lane for the architect.

  • Features

    How do I resolve this impasse over extra costs and delays?

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    As the architect on an office extension I am administering a JCT Minor Works Contract for the client.