All Building Design articles in 09 December 2005

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  • News

    Foster returns to Ground Zero

    2005-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster has been commissioned to design the third tower to be rebuilt at the site of the World Trade Center in New York.

  • News

    This Week

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    In the news this week...

  • The wall: successful security measure or tool of Israeli oppression?
    Review

    Writings on the wall

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    A book on Israel’s security wall has some interesting ideas but is depressingly partisan.

  • Tenders are invited by the Birmingham Institute for the Deaf for its Ladywood facility by D5 Architects.
    News

    Spotcheck

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    West Midlands

  • t: Will Alsop arrives at HMP Gartree for last week’s Creative Prison workshop.
    News

    When Will went to prison

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Will Alsop is asking inmates to design their own lock-ups. Has he gone soft on crime or will his plans encourage rehabilitation? Will Hurst joined Alsop at a workshop in HMP Gartree

  • News

    Rainbow picture show

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    John MacAslan & Partners has collaborated with artist David Mach on Rainbow Bridge, a public art project proposed for a site in Liverpool.

  • Liverpool John Moores University has won planning permission for a £23.5 million academy designed by Rick Mather.
    News

    Merseyside Mather

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Liverpool John Moores University has won planning permission for a £23.5 million academy designed by Rick Mather.

  • News

    Make snakes

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Make has been parachuted into the £60,000 house competition by housebuilder William Verry.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Review of 2005: Part 2

  • The contemporary dollhouse
    Review

    Give generously

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Pamela Buxton on architectural Christmas gift options

  • News

    Four in running for Worcester

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Competition entries for the University of Worcester’s proposed £90 million campus — by Broadway Malyan, Alsop Design, BDP and Architects Design Partnership — were revealed this week.

  • News

    Prescott: What urban task force?

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    John Prescott has delivered an extraordinary outburst against the architecture profession and his former adviser Richard Rogers.

  • Mukund Patel: “We need more small and medium practices to come into the sector.”
    News

    Small firms: get ready for school

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The Department for Education & Skills has a problem that should make architects jump for joy: it just can’t get enough of them.

  • The roofscape of the VPRO building splits and ruptures in continuity with the landscape.
    Technical

    I wish I’d done that...

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Tom Holbrook on the VPRO building in Hilversum, the Netherlands

  • News

    RIBA looks into DIY planning

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    ODPM may allow ‘self-certification’ for small domestic projects, but planners raise questions of probity

  • left to right: Pier Head building, Wales Millennium Centre, National Assembly.
    Building Study

    Death by a thousand cuts

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Has Richard Rogers’ Welsh Assembly building finally given Wales a decent piece of architecture? Ellis Woodman discovered an architect’s vision crippled by an ever-shifting brief. Photos by Morley von Sternberg

  • News

    DRMM’s school colours

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    De Rijke Marsh Morgan has followed its celebrated Kingsdale School in south London with another colourful school building.

  • News

    Lammy lists war buildings

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Heritage minister David Lammy has listed hundreds of wartime buildings, which played crucial roles in the first and second world wars. They include the bunker in Uxbridge where Churchill watched the Battle of Britain unfold.

  • Opinion

    Nip pre-Games cost problems in the bud

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    It is the recipe for another disaster.

  • News

    Bradford density questioned

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Plans not in line with Alsop vision