All Building Design articles in 10 October 2008 – Page 4
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Opinion
Class struggle
Yasmin Shariff should ask herself why the ratio of women in law and medicine is at 50% (Debate October 3).
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News
Rule change for non-European workers
Practices employing workers from outside Europe after November must apply to sponsor them by the end of that month.
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OpinionOur carbuncles are too common
Amanda Baillieu observes that the architecture most people still get in their towns is, to paraphrase her inelegantly, crap (Leader October 3).
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News
Foster, Rogers join NT campaign
A campaign to save John Vanbrugh’s grade I listed masterpiece, Seaton Delaval Hall, has been boosted by support from Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.
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NewsSt Patrick’s bold plans
RMJM, in collaboration with Irish practice Taylor Architects, has submitted plans for a £40 million redevelopment of St Patrick’s College, the education department at Dublin City University.
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NewsLords call for design to be at heart of planning bill
Design quality must be placed at the heart of the new planning bill, peers in the House of Lords demanded this week.
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Opinion
Is the UK’s house-building model bust beyond repair?
Yes, says Tim Williams, the model was not producing enough homes even before the credit crunch; while John Slaughter argues that it was on a trajectory to deliver more
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News
Book a table for BD awards
BD will celebrate the crème de la crème of UK architecture at the annual Architect of the Year Awards on 30 October at Park Lane’s London Hilton.
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TechnicalAsif Khan’s West Beach Café at Littlehampton
West Beach Café, Asif Khan’s first building, is a cheerful addition to the Littlehampton littoral
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NewsHidden hideaway wins planning as area’s ‘best design statement’
Architects Sarah Featherstone and Jeremy Young have designed an idyllic second home for themselves that takes full advantage of its riverside location in Pontfaen, a small Welsh hamlet.
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Opinion
Overthrow Arb
Architects have fallen under the heel and dictatorship of Arb, which is a government quango, the majority of its members being non-architects.
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ReviewCelebrating Osbert Lancaster, a past master of all trades
Trying to encompass all the facets of Osbert Lancaster’s career into one exhibition may seem like a losing game.
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News
Hopkins’ exemplary aim for WWF
Hopkins Architects is to design a UK headquarters for conservation body WWF-UK in Surrey that aims to be an exemplar of sustainable design.
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NewsAHMM’s Saatchi gallery opens
The new AHMM-designed Saatchi Gallery in the listed Duke of York’s Headquarters building in Chelsea opened to the public on Thursday.
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NewsBath adds a black splash
Bath & North East Somerset Council has granted planning for Mitchell Taylor Workshop’s complementary health clinic and martial arts centre in Bath city centre.
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FeaturesDot to Dot Results: October 3
Last week’s competition winner was Hugh Hesketh of Stephen Davy Peter Smith Architects, who identified Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple.He receives a copy of The Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide by Mary Miers.
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NewsEH lists its top 20 heritage projects
Liverpool’s Bluecoat arts centre, King’s Cross Central in London and Sheffield’s Park Hill have been named in an English Heritage list of England’s 20 best conservation-led developments.
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News
Welsh Assembly should use architects to cut CO2
The Design Commission for Wales has called on the Welsh Assembly to use architects to help address the country’s carbon reduction and house-building agenda.
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NewsSoho hotel to get 1930s refurb
Celebrity haunt and art deco masterpiece, the Regent Palace Hotel in London’s Soho, is being converted into a mixed-use development, with its bars and restaurants refurbished to their original state by Donald Insall Associates.