All Building Design articles in 09 March 2007 – Page 3

  • News

    Makeover in Manhattan style

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Liverpool will be given a Manhattan-style makeover under one of the biggest developments proposed in the north-west of England.

  • Opinion

    Loopy legacy

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    New Labours’ surprising London legacy will be a skyline peppered with a motley collection of weird and wacky “spec” towers.

  • News

    Town planners join PGS revolt

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Town Planning Institute has criticised the government’s proposed planning gain supplement (PGS) as “unworkable”.

  • News

    Future System's Prague library - images

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Last week Future Systems won the competition for the Czech National library. View a full set of images, read our report of their win and see the rest of the shortlisted schemes.

  • Opinion

    Freedom threat

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Your Arb story is a great example of investigative journalism.

  • News

    Fobert heads for the sun

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Next Generation winner Jamie Fobert has revealed the first images of his private house project in Trinidad as he prepares to receive the award at next week’s Mipim conference in Cannes.

  • Multimedia

    Flythrough: Rafael Vinoly's "walkie-talkie"

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    The inquiry into Rafael Vinoly's "walkie-talkie" skyscraper planned for Fenchurch Street in the City of London opened on Tuesday 6 March. Watch the architects flythrough of the proposed building.

  • The revised scheme is intended to blend with the landscape.
    News

    Foster’s first hospital goes to planning

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners’ first-ever hospital, an innovative facility near Bath intended to maximise the role of design in the healing process, was set to be granted outline planning approval this week.

  • News

    White paper extends protection

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    A buffer zone around the UK’s 24 world heritage sites will be proposed in the long-awaited heritage White Paper.

  • Dorma UK’s automatic sliding doors: a cost-effective way of providing good disabled access.
    Technical

    Making an entrance

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Juggling the competing demands of heating, disabled access and creating an appropriate first impression means that specifying a front door is far from straightforward.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    The earnings wheel turns

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Enjoy the boom — but remember to prepare for leaner times

  • Technical

    I wish i’d done that

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    1838 project for a palace by Karl Friedrich Schinkel

  • John Smith.
    News

    Landmark Trust founder dies

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    John Smith, founder and major financial backer of the Landmark Trust, died last week.

  • Kakamigahara Crematorium, engineered by Musuro Sasaki.
    Review

    Sensitive touch on design

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Mutsuro Sasaki was fascinating but frightening, says Kester Rattenbury

  • Wilkinson Eyre’s revised plan uses the 19th century facade.
    News

    Spot-list delays Dyson’s design school by a year

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    A high profile scheme in Bath by Wilkinson Eyre Architects will be delayed by at least a year because of local opposition.

  • News

    ...as Viñoly defends his ‘walkie talkie’

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Rafael Viñoly was quizzed over the sustainability of his proposed “walkie talkie” tower this week as a landmark public inquiry on the scheme got under way.

  • Opinion

    Oh dear, what can the matter be?

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Too white. Too male. Too middle class. Every year, the architectural profession stares in the mirror with self-loathing and decides to do something about it.

  • Opinion

    Oh dear, what can the matter be?

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Too white. Too male. Too middle class. Every year, the architectural profession stares in the mirror with self-loathing and decides to do something about it.

  • Opinion

    Creativity can live with profits

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    On behalf of the SMC Group I would like to respond to your article “Is this game over for the Terry Venables of Architecture?” (News analysis February 23).

  • News

    Twist in Supreme Court project

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    The battle over the future of the grade II listed Middlesex Guildhall has taken a fresh twist after a new planning application was submitted.