All Building Design articles in 09 January 2009 – Page 2

  • Competitions

    Holiday let: West Algarve, charming, country house

    2009-01-12T10:13:00Z

    Truly unspoilt coastal village (National Park). Historic area. Accommodates 4 - 10 (optional barn conversion). Private pool, mature gardens, baby-sitter.

  • Norman Foster with his luxury jet
    News

    Air Foster One

    2009-01-12T09:39:00Z

    Designs for a set of luxury private jets by Norman Foster were unveiled on Friday.

  • News

    New US embassy likely to be 'a fortress'

    2009-01-12T08:55:00Z

    The new US embassy in London is likely to be a “fortress”, Richard Rogers, one of the jury members that will select the new building, has acknowledged.

  • The Olympic Village
    News

    London Olympic village – new images released

    2009-01-09T16:27:00Z

    The Olympic Delivery Authority has released new images of the London 2012 Olympic Village, showing the completed foundations of several buildings as well as a new render of the final design.

  • Designing & Constructing Colleges and Universities
    Review

    BD Conference: Designing & Constructing Colleges and Universities – March 30, 2009

    2009-01-09T12:42:00Z

    BD and Building have developed this exceptional conference: overcoming design, construction and procurement challenges to capitalise on opportunities in further and higher education.

  • The Sperone Westwater Gallery
    News

    Foster’s submits Bowery gallery for planning approval

    2009-01-09T08:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has submitted its proposals for the new premises of the Sperone Westwater Gallery, to be located on the Bowery in south Manhattan, for planning approval.

  • Opinion

    Women’s work

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Do you, like me, ever sit at your desk and wonder where the boundaries of your duties lie, or even whether our clients comprehend the task we have to do?

  • Opinion

    Stone me

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Stonehenge was given to the nation in the 19th century on the condition that it be freely accessible to us all. But the authorities now regard it as a capital asset to be exploited for profit

  • Opinion

    Star turn

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The term “starchitect” may take on an entirely different meaning if Brad Pitt has anything to do with it.

  • Opinion

    Sits vac

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Barry Cunliffe is still soldiering on as interim chair of EH, five months after the death of Sandy Bruce-Lockhart.

  • Features

    (Re)store no more

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    As Woolworths shuts up shop for the last time, we cast our minds back to Andrew Rabeneck’s restoration of the firm’s 54-storey New York HQ in 1980

  • £13 million Southwark Primary School in Nottingham design
    News

    New school, new systems

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Capita Architecture has been appointed to design the £13 million Southwark Primary School in Nottingham

  • Opinion

    Skills needed not role models

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    I am a “black” architect running a small practice in south London and find your news story on black role models (12 December) extremely disturbing.

  • The Hut at Spa Fields, Clerkenwell, a green hub since the 18th century.
    Building Study

    Studio Idealyc’s pyramid scheme

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The refurbishment of London’s Spa Fields includes a distinctive community building by a recent architecture graduate, writes Graham Bizley

  • Opinion

    No House room

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Still with Foster’s, word reaches Boots that Norman Foster is to be questioned again over his shadowy tax status.

  • Would villages like this one in the Cotswolds see sustainable communities spring from relaxed rural planning laws?
    Opinion

    Should the government relax rural planning laws?

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Relaxing planning laws will hlep prvent villages becoming commuter homes, argues Mole Architecture’s Meredith Bowles, while the CPRE’s Kate Gordon counters that it will divert building from towns and cities.

  • News

    Hanham Hall plans go to HCA

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Plans for HTA’s Hanham Hall project, which will see 195 code level 6 new homes built near Bristol, have been submitted for approval by the Homes & Communities Agency and developer Barratt Homes

  • Liz Bury
    Opinion

    Glimmers of hope in the gloom

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    In uncertain times everyone has a prediction, but between the bad and the mad are some positive signs for architects

  • Opinion

    Let’s get together

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    How disappointing that concerns over the RIBA fees increase led to calls for a break with the RIBA. (Letters December 19).

  • Opinion

    Yawning gap

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Last week it was Hoxton Square, this week (December 19) a library in Vienna.