All Building Design articles in 05 January 2007 – Page 2

  • The design is back on the drawing board.
    News

    Chipperfield’s ‘car park’ flats rejected

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield has been sent back to the drawing board to revise designs for his largest commission in the UK to date.

  • Architects Design Partnership has submitted this design for a flagship building for Canterbury Christ Church University
    News

    Canterbury’s green wings

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Architects Design Partnership has submitted this design for a flagship building for Canterbury Christ Church University to planners.

  • News

    BSF gathers speed as schools contracts are let

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Aedas with Balfour Beatty has been appointed to design seven new schools for Knowsley Council’s £150 million Building Schools for the Future programme.

  • SMC Alsop propose plans for unique power station in Dongtan in China
    News

    China bright

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    These designs by SMC Alsop are for a unique power station proposed at Dongtan in China — the world’s largest eco-city.

  • Rem Koolhaas
    News

    Rem demands boycott

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Koolhaas campaigns to overhaul star-studded design competitions after Gazprom HQ controversy

  • News

    Brown will be biggest influence this year

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Chancellor Gordon Brown has topped BD’s list of the 50 public figures who will wield the greatest influence over architecture in 2007.

  • Technical

    A column-free basement for the White Cube Gallery

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    The challenge: To create a column-free contemporary basement gallery in the heart of London

  • News

    Barajas bomb blast hits Rogers’ terminal

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers’ Stirling Prize-winning Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas airport sustained superficial damage in the terrorist bombing last Saturday, which authorities believe killed two men. However, most of the building was open to passengers the next day after access routes were cleared of debris.

  • Powell Dobson has won the design contract for new offices for the Welsh Assembly Government in Aberystwyth
    News

    Assembly point

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Cardiff and Swansea-based architect Powell Dobson has won the design contract for new offices for the Welsh Assembly Government in Aberystwyth, west Wales.

  • 3.a.
    Features

    Architest

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    This week: Architects and bombs

  • News

    Haringey council axes its architects

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Switch to design-and-build blamed for architect redundancies

  • News

    Gehry’s Brighton scheme awaits approval as rival design emerges

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Frank Gehry’s scheme for the King Alfred site in Brighton has begun the new year with more controversy as the council’s decision date for the planning application — December 21 — was over-run and a rival proposal emerged.

  • Opinion

    All for debate

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    In response to Steve Wolstenholme (Letters December 15), following the case of Peter White (who was in fact registered by Arb’s predecessor Arcuk) and his clients Jean and Christopher Shaw, I have indeed said that the architecture profession may wish to debate ways of improving consumer redress in 2007.

  • Opinion

    Substance will drive PM Brown’s agenda

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    New Year is supposedly about resolutions and looking forward. It’s also about marking anniversaries and looking back to see what’s been achieved. Ten years ago New Labour came to power with a list of promises — some fulfilled, some not — including a pledge to use PFI, despite its already ...

  • John Lewis gives brick the boot.
    News

    Portsmouth John Lewis revised after protests

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Designs for a flagship John Lewis department store in the centre of Portsmouth have been substantially revised after earlier efforts were slammed by local architecture and civic groups.

  • Norman Foster
    Features

    9. Norman Foster

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Job: Director, Foster & PartnersPower base: Architecture

  • David Higgins
    Features

    8. David Higgins

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Job: Chief executive,Olympic Delivery AuthorityPower base: Policy

  • Richard Rogers
    Features

    7. Richard Rogers

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Job: Director, RRPPower base: Policy/architecture

  • Yvette Cooper
    Features

    6. Yvette Cooper

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Job: Housing and planning minister, DCLGPower base: Government

  • Features

    How our expert panel came up with this year’s top 50

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    In drawing up BD’s list of the top 50 most powerful people in architecture we defined power in its broadest sense as having political, economic and/or cultural influence.