All Building Design articles in 10 November 2006 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    Fictitious foil

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Architects aren’t just an arrogant lot, according to playwright Oren Safdie, whose satire on the profession opens this week (see Focus), they are also gullible.

  • Evelina Hospital: may need more power.
    News

    Evelina feels the heat

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

  • Opinion

    Entrance to Hades

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Ellis Woodhead calls Zaha Hadid’s Maggie’s Centre in Fife “architecture of a very high order”.

  • News

    Two firms join jinxed Edinburg

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Sutherland Hussey Architects and Comprehensive Design Architects are the latest practices to appear in the long running saga of Edinburgh’s £100 million Haymarket site.

  • Fosters Dresden triumph
    News

    Fosters Dresden triumph

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has completed the redevelopment of Dresden Station in Germany, featuring a new 30,000sq m roof.

  • GMW’s  Sazan building is planned for Erbil.
  • Technical

    I wish I'd done that...Offsite structure

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Paul Hinkin on Richard Rogers’ Lloyd’s building

  • Opinion

    Save our Olympics from disaste

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    In response to your editorial (November 3), I share your concerns and am growing increasingly despondent about the Olympics procurement process.

  • Opinion

    Too much detail

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    BD seems to be following much of the rest of the magazine industry in its reliance on large images to fill pages when a smaller one with more informative and quality text would be far preferable.

  • Only from the south bank of the river does the Tower still stand out against the sky.
    News

    Following in the delegations

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    BD followed in the Unesco mission’s footsteps, with a tour that began on the north bank of the Thames looking up at the Tower of London’s southern walls.

  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy provides a soundtrack to stewed bulls’ balls.
    Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    How would you spend your day indulging in cultural pursuits?

  • Opinion

    Housing renewal needs quality control

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Anyone who has struggled in assembling a Billy bookcase from their local Ikea may wonder what challenges await those brave enough to buy one of their prefabricated homes.

  • Comfortable?
    Features

    Are you sitting comfortably?

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Zoë Blackler meets Oren Safdie, whose bitter experience as an architecture student moved him to expose the profession in a play which has its European premier in London this week

  • Review

    Are you sitting comfortably?

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Zoë Blackler meets Oren Safdie, whose bitter experience as an architecture student moved him to expose the profession in a play which has its European premier in London this week

  • Curtain Wall House, Tokyo 1993-5. Shigeru Ban plays on the idea of a glass curtain wall structural system by using a two-storey fabric curtain in tandem with sliding glass walls as the exterior of the building.
    Review

    When two worlds collide

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    A new book explores the relationship between fashion and architecture, writes Shumon Basar

  • Sheppard Robsons design
    News

    Stem cell centre

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Sheppard Robson has been appointed to design a £35 million Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

  • News

    Public building targets in danger, warns CPA

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Hundreds of schools and thousands of new homes will not be built on time, the Construction Products Association (CPA) has warned the government.

  • News

    Top practices jostle to build

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Architects including Make, Glenn Howells and Wilkinson Eyre are vying to design a visitor centre promoting Sherwood Forest and its most famous son, Robin Hood.

  • News

    Tate Britain shortlist favours

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Up and coming firms DRMM and DSDHA are competing against established names including Rick Mather to become the exclusive architect for Tate Britain.

  • News

    ‘Ridiculous’ school bid times slated

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Simplify process, urges BCSE chief