All Building Design articles in 05 August 2005 – Page 2

  • News

    Plan to restrict vehicles in City

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Parts of the City of London could be closed to drivers who do not have identification and an appointment under radical new proposals to improve public space and protect buildings from the threat of terrorism.

  • News

    Foreigners forego control to design homes in China

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Ten international architects have been commissioned to design private homes set around a lake in China, but will have to hand over detailed design to a local Chinese practice.

  • News

    Population soars in city centres

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    More than 25,000 new residents have moved into the centres of Manchester and Liverpool in a city living boom which could result in 40,000 people living in the two northern centres by 2010.

  • London’s first Maggie’s Centre, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership, has won planning permission
    News

    Maggies Centre for London

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    London’s first Maggie’s Centre, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership, has won planning permission.

  • Opinion

    Community care

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The use of the word “community” is presumptuous in the field of architecture and town planning, most topically with respect to John Prescott’s claim to be promoting “communities instead of soulless housing estates” at the proposed Thames Gateway.I have been trying to persuade my fellow architects to facilitate community in ...

  • Opinion

    Cabe unpressured

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    www.cabe.org.ukI write in reference to last week’s item on Falconer Chester’s proposed tower on Skelhorne Street Liverpool (News July 29). I strongly contend the suggestion by Adam Hall that Cabe has been put under political pressure on this or any other scheme. Cabe judges schemes on their design merits alone. ...

  • Technical

    I wish Id done that...sustainable building

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Harald Rostvik’s media centre in Sri Lanka

  • Technical

    Bricks come down to earth

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Mud goes modern with unfired clay ‘eco-bricks’

  • News

    Brent has designs

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Designs to reinvigorate democracy in the London Borough of Brent have been revealed by Witherford Watson Mann Architects.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Kids on the caseKids say the funniest things. Boots has been speaking to architects who have had to consult children for new schools and a children’s theatre in London recently and found they are more perceptive than you might imagine. One child told an architect consulting on a school in ...

  • Opinion

    White male lineup is of BDs making

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    We are astonished in our office to see nine young white men lined up as your newest A-Team in architecture.

  • News

    Battling for Britain

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    170 military buildings to be listed, but historians say it’s not enough to preserve the past

  • News

    Bathroom woes at millennium village

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Residents at the flagship Greenwich Millennium Village say they are experiencing widespread problems with their prefabricated bathrooms.

  • News

    Award

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The Young Architect of the Year Award aims to recognise the UK’s most talented architect aged 40 or under, or practices where the majority of principals are under this age.

  • Both additions front onto the playground which sits at the back of the elevated site.
    Building Study

    The art of counterpoint

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Greenhill Jenner and Houlton Architects’ sophisticated new music and art blocks are a sensitive addition to Sydenham’s 1960s Brent Knoll School

  • A: A seahorse
    Features

    Architest

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    This week: the seaside

  • Morton: “Prickly and arrogant”.
    News

    Fomer GLC architect Morton convicted

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The millionaire architect convicted of killing his wife worked for the Greater London Council general division and is remembered by colleagues as being “prickly” and “arrogant.”

  • News

    Laban architect wants area plan

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron partner Harry Gugger has welcomed the demise of a Broadway Malyan scheme proposed opposite his award-winning Laban dance centre in south-east London.

  • Opinion

    Alsop’s gang makes a grab for power

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    It’s about time Will Alsop left behind his reputation as an enfant terrible. He will be 58 in December and the two don’t mix.

  • AOC
    News

    Alsop forms a gang of four

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Stirling prize winner Will Alsop has unveiled a new architectural movement to challenge the establishment by linking with like-minded practices Fat, Branson Coates and AOC .