All Building Design articles in 08 October 2010 – Page 3

  • Strandveien 27 model: Moxon's competition entry for a project in Trondheim, Norway.
    Review

    Moxon Architects

    2010-10-08T09:59:00Z

    Moxon Architects has been shortlisted for BD’s 2010 Young Architect of the Year Award.

  • Adventure play centre in Camden's Kilburn Grange Park
    Review

    Erect Architecture

    2010-10-08T09:57:00Z

    Erect Architecture has been shortlisted for BD’s 2010 Young Architect of the Year Award.

  • Margam Discovery Centre in Port Talbot, Wales
    Review

    Design Research Unit Wales

    2010-10-08T09:56:00Z

    Design Research Unit Wales has been shortlisted for BD’s 2010 Young Architect of the Year Award.

  • The Edge Lane Retail Park forms part of major eastern gateway regeneration plans.
    News

    AEW submits plans for Edge Hill retail park in Liverpool

    2010-10-08T09:15:00Z

    Designs by Manchester practice AEW Architects for a “bland” £200 million retail park in Liverpool have been submitted to planners

  • Nigel Young/Foster & Partners
    News

    Foster & Partners' Emirates campus takes its first students

    2010-10-08T09:14:00Z

    Foster & Partners’ Masdar Institute scheme in the United Arab Emirates is close to completion after three years of development.

  • Prince Charles at the RIBA Annual Lecture in 2009.
    News

    Prince Charles speaks about Chelsea Barracks controversy

    2010-10-08T09:12:00Z

    Prince Charles has broken his silence over his controversial meddling in Rogers Stirk Harbour’s £3 billion Chelsea Barracks development, admitting his intervention “produced the desired effect”.

  • All Souls Church in Harlesden was refurbished by Cottrell & Vermeulen in 2007.
    News

    Listed places of worship can no longer claim VAT for architects' work

    2010-10-08T08:23:00Z

    Churches and other places of worship can no longer claim a government grant for VAT on architects’ fees, following a revision of the Listed Places of Worship grant scheme announced today.

  • Adam’s proposed mansion.
    News

    Robert Adam's proposal for new £20m Athlone House will go to appeal

    2010-10-08T08:17:00Z

    A row over plans for one of the largest new houses in London, a neo-classical mansion designed by Robert Adam in Hampstead, will be played on in public after a planning appeal was lodged.

  • “We were dissuaded from progressing due to Archial’s historical debt situation” - Victor Smith
    News

    Archial buyer looked at company last year

    2010-10-08T08:15:00Z

    The Canadian firm that rescued Archial from administration has revealed that it looked at buying the business last year, but was put off by the size of its debts

  • “All I want to do is become an architect... but they are making it impossible for me” - Ben Potter
    News

    MP queries hefty second degree fees

    2010-10-08T08:09:00Z

    The case of a young designer whose attempt to retrain as an architect has been thwarted by a rule that would force him to pay sky-high fees has prompted his MP to ask the further education minister to investigate.Ben Potter, who has worked as an architectural assistant and already has ...

  • Ellis Woodman - editor
    Opinion

    Hadid’s win tells us nothing

    2010-10-08T00:02:00Z

    The Stirling Prize needs to reclaim its role as a platform for architectural debate

  • Opinion

    Time will tell

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Your report “Architects take heat for high cost of BSF” (News October 1) shows how incredibly weak the profession is. In other European countries, people with the views preached by Michael Gove and Toby Young are marginalised as raving lunatics.I simply refuse to believe there is no scientific material available ...

  • Regaled/rejected
    Opinion

    Regaled/rejected

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    You might be interested to compare these images of the Stirling-winning Maxxi and the recently-rejected-for-listing South Bank Centre. If I was using the Private Eye format, I might switch the names.The RIBA website today calls the Maxxi “a building for the staging of art”. Don’t we have one of those ...

  • Opinion

    Simple lessons

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Toby Young and Jonathan Ellis-Miller (Debate October 1) are after the same things: a dignified, cultured environment where children feel safe, confident and happy in their surroundings, an environment that need not be over-designed or costly. What’s striking is the inability of the profession, and potential clients, to communicate what’s ...

  • Opinion

    Learning from the past

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    As politicians and programme managers struggle with cutting investment in school buildings they should remember that we have been this way before, and learn from the mistakes of the past

  • This week's ups and downs
    News

    This week's ups and downs

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Hot and not

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    Of dormice and men

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Kent County Council’s decision to put dormice before development demonstrates the humaneness that should inform our planning

  • Defaced: Nord’s Shingle House.
    Opinion

    Death rattle

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Boots had a somewhat awkward Stirling Prize dinner with Cabe executive member, Sarah Gaventa sat on the other side of the table

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    Features

    And on the fifth day...

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    In 1983, a group of Northampton Jehovah’s Witnesses built their own meeting hall in less than 100 hours

  • Opinion

    Every crowd has a silver lining

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    East London has lost out through Locog’s decision to re-route the marathon, but the news may not be all bad