All Building Design articles in 09 April 2009 – Page 2

  • £23 million mixed-use development in Stafford town centre in the Midlands
    News

    3D Reid wins Stafford go-ahead

    2009-04-09T00:58:00Z

    3DReid has won planning permission for a £23 million mixed-use development in Stafford town centre in the Midlands.

  • US practice Tina Manis Associates has won an open competition to design a pavilion
    News

    Manis is Woking pavilion winner

    2009-04-09T00:55:00Z

    US practice Tina Manis Associates has won an open competition to design a pavilion (pictured) to sit outside Marks Barfield’s Lightbox gallery in Woking, Surrey.

  • Work has begun on Foster & Partners’ design for the United Arab Emirates pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo
    News

    Shanghai dune on site

    2009-04-09T00:54:00Z

    Work has begun on Foster & Partners’ design for the United Arab Emirates pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo.

  • News

    Industry faces 12% fall in outputs

    2009-04-09T00:52:00Z

    The construction industry is facing its worst fall in outputs on record, according to the latest industry forecast from the Construction Products Association.

  • Paul Davis
    News

    Arb releases guidance as bankruptcy numbers rise

    2009-04-09T00:50:00Z

    The Architects’ Registration Board has issued new guidance for architects worried about individual and company insolvency after a near-doubling in personal bankruptcies in the profession

  • Sunand Prasad
    News

    Housing Fed backs Prasad’s retrofit call

    2009-04-09T00:43:00Z

    RIBA president Sunand Prasad has joined forces with the National Housing Federation to call for a £3 billion pilot to retrofit social housing stock across the UK.

  • CF Møller’s design for the new wing of the National Maritime Museum.
    News

    CF Møller dumped from Maritime Museum project

    2009-04-09T00:41:00Z

    Purcell Miller Tritton replaces concept architect on Greenwich landmark scheme

  • Prince Charles
    News

    Prasad urges prince to lay off barracks scheme

    2009-04-09T00:39:00Z

    RIBA president Sunand Prasad has made a dramatic appeal to Prince Charles to stop interfering with Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Chelsea Barracks scheme amid a mounting backlash against the institute’s decision to invite the heir to the throne to deliver this year’s keynote RIBA Trust speech

  • Home for bats at the London Wetland Centre at Barnes, south-west London
    News

    Bat house approved

    2009-04-09T00:36:00Z

    Architectural Association students Jorgen Tandberg and Yo Murata have won planning permission for a home for bats at the London Wetland Centre at Barnes, south-west London.

  • News

    Benoy and Foster’s join Iraq delegation

    2009-04-09T00:32:00Z

    Members of staff from Benoy and Foster & Partners joined Peter Mandelson on the first British business delegation to Iraq in more than 20 years on Monday.

  • The paper proposes scrapping regional housing targets.
    News

    Tories outline new housing policies

    2009-04-09T00:30:00Z

    The Conservative Party has launched a policy green paper outlining its approach to social housing, the private rented sector and energy-efficient homes.

  • Gillian Beckingham
    News

    Architect erased from Arb register

    2009-04-09T00:25:00Z

    Architect Gillian Beckingham was removed from the Arb register on Tuesday, almost three years after she was convicted of a breach of health and safety regulations in a case which involved the deaths of at least five people from Legionnaires’ disease.

  • News

    This week's ups & downs

    2009-04-09T00:21:00Z

    Hot and not

  • £32 million amphitheatre for Coney Island
    News

    Grimshaw reveals its Coney Island amphitheatre

    2009-04-09T00:19:00Z

    Grimshaw Architects has unveiled images of its £32 million amphitheatre for Coney Island, New York.

  • Southwark's proposed skyline
    News

    Southwark tower plans under threat

    2009-04-09T00:08:00Z

    Westminster council’s Doon St legal action could halt other skyscrapers

  • Spurred on: Huw Thomas Architects’ alternative scheme.
    News

    Heritage outcry over Make’s Spurs stadium

    2009-04-09T00:04:00Z

    Heritage groups have slammed plans to demolish a set of historic buildings on the site of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club’s new north London stadium, following the unveiling of designs by Make Architects, KSS Group and Martha Schwartz Partners last week.

  • News

    New campus for Strabane schools

    2009-04-09T00:02:00Z

    HLM and RPP Architects’ £29 million Holy Cross College in Strabane, Northern Ireland, has opened.

  • Yale University, Paul Rudolph Hall, fourth-floor studio looking east toward Yale University Art Gallery, 2008.
    Review

    Robert Stern’s study in practice

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Yale’s architecture department has reopened, and BD was invited to cocktails with its dean, Robert AMStern

  • Opinion

    Into the light

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Maybe Bill Mitchell (Opinion April 3) needs to get his compact fluorescent lightbulbs from somewhere other than his local supermarket?

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    The wrong skills for the job

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Restricting conservation work to those on a specialist register could stop buildings having the best viable future