All Building Design articles in 10 August 2007 – Page 2
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Opinion
Tax and spend
Paul Velluet raises important questions about listed buildings at risk (Letters August 3). However, he does not mention the corrosive effect of VAT that bedevils many private owners who want to maintain listed structures properly.
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Opinion
Put up or shut up
Stop moaning about planning committee decisions (Leader August 3) and do something about it. It is not difficult to become an elected councillor, so go and get yourself elected and dominate the planning committees. The political parties are desperate for articulate, educated professionals to stand.
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OpinionQuids in, and out
BD’s report on student dropout rates last week did not consider the phenomenon of students being expelled for inappropriate involvement with a Frank Gehry development.
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NewsSMC/Aukett set to be UK’s largest practice
Proposed merger could see Stewart McColl’s comeback with a place on the board
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NewsRMJM/Taylor university job
RMJM and Taylor Architects have submitted a planning application for an engineering school for the National University of Ireland in Galway.
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Opinion
Humble pie
Saul Metzstein (Opinion August 3) may well be right to castigate the housing “solution” shown in Germaine Greer’s television programme as half-baked.
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NewsSimpson helps improve standards
Ian Simpson has joined the board of the Oldham Rochdale Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder to help improve the design quality of the 2,500 homes to be delivered there in the next three years.
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NewsSheffield screen gem
Carmody Groarke has won an RIBA competition to design Sheffield’s £3 million Festival Centre.
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Opinion
Forthright view
Not everyone in Scotland is sorry to see that Reiach & Hall’s canopy at the Forth Bridge Toll Plaza is facing demolition. Alan Dunlop of GM&AD Architects, for one, is a happy man.
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OpinionForm of flattery
How lovely to have provided the inspiration to so many high-flying young firms in the form of Eight’s Shanghai Expo entry (News August 3, pictured).
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News
The first images of the long-awaited Serpentine Pavilion
NEWS: Eliasson and Thorsen's Serpentine pavilion opens this week - images AUDIO: Ellis Woodman interviews the pavilion's creators
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OpinionRally round to save the MK dream
It may be the butt of jokes, but Milton Keynes’ very existence champions the suburban ideal
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NewsNew Street station design under threat
John McAslan & Partners’ £550 million design for the redevelopment of Birmingham’s New Street Station is under threat after the government asked for further proof that it offers value for money.
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OpinionModernists are not democrats
The rejection of Eric Parry’s glass-and-ceramic box in Bath (News August 3) has upset supporters of the “modernism is the only way forward” view, and brought to the surface the usual nonsense used to support it.
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News
MPs demand design principles
An influential committee of MPs has called for general design principles to be introduced for aspects of the Building Schools for the Future programme.
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News
Merger creates mega-consultancy
Leading engineer Whitbybird has merged with Nordic firm Ramboll to create a European consultancy with more than 6,000 staff and 140 offices worldwide.
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NewsCorby in the swim
S&P Architects has been appointed to design an Olympic sized pool in Corby, Northamptonshire, which will be used as a training ground by athletes hoping to compete in the 2012 Games.
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News
Sharp growth for UK construction
Construction has grown at its strongest rate for seven years, according to new figures from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
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NewsFive compete to regenerate Hull site
Fat, Wigglesworth and BDP are among shortlisted architects
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