All Building Design articles in 11 August 2006 – Page 2

  • News

    Cutting edge couple deserve Royal Gold

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    We won’t know until December if Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown will be the recipients of this year’s Royal Gold Medal, but they fully deserve this recognition.

  • Review

    Continental comparisons

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Alessandra Cianchetta of Paris practice AWP gave this year’s first Architecture Foundation Summer Nights talk.

  • 1959 Mini
    Opinion

    Mono classics

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Marco da Cruz sings the praises of the 1959 Mini (Solutions July 28).

  • University of Cincinnati
    News

    Cincinnati winner

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Bernard Tschumi Architects’ Richard E Lindner Athletics Centre has opened at the University of Cincinnati.

  • News

    Upmarket visitor centre for Loch Ness

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Niall McLaughlin Architects has won the competition to design a visitor attraction on the edge of Loch Ness.

  • News

    Cairo terminal revision

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    GMW Architects has been appointed to refurbish the interior design of the new terminal at Cairo airport.

  • News

    Rejected Wirral project undermines Cabe’s role

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    A developer has questioned the advisory role of Cabe and English Heritage after a large waterfront regeneration scheme in New Brighton on the Wirral was rejected at public inquiry.

  • Technical

    I wish I'd done that...Sustainable building

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Matthew Woodthorpe on Edward Cullinan’s Downland Gridshell

  • The facade’s glazed bricks will change colour depending
    News

    Style over size at budget hotel

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Planning permission has been granted for this colourful £4 million hotel in the heart of Manchester.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    This week from Concrete Boots

  • News

    Watch the birdie!

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Pigeon population rockets as architects’ use of louvres on eco-friendly buildings provides ideal nesting

  • Cecil Balmond
    News

    Balmond slates UK ‘conservatism’

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    British architecture pales in comparison to the rest of the world, according to Cecil Balmond, one of the country’s foremost engineers.

  • Opinion

    Bad marks

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    I was one of those hapless individuals who cast my vote in the three days before the press revealed the true political face of Peter Phillips.

  • News

    Businesses back eco buildings

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Almost 90% of UK businesses would be more willing to pay for energy-efficient buildings than for iconic ones, according to new research carried out for architectural consultancy Gensler. The study, which examined the differences in attitudes to energy efficiency between property developers and the companies occupying the buildings they create, ...

  • Features

    Architest

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    This week: The Bath Spa

  • News

    Poles put pressure on Arb over registration

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Pressure is mounting on the Arb to relax the rules allowing foreign architects to register in the UK.The Arb Reform Group is gathering evidence of cases which, it claims, expose inconsistencies in the standards expected of foreign architects attempting to have their qualifications recognised in the this country by taking ...

  • Technical

    Is there life after Part L?

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    In March, our panel of experts answered your Part L questions. Four months after implementation, Elaine Knutt asks architects how Part L is affecting their work

  • Opinion

    Direct action

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    So the RIBA is to launch “the biggest ever survey of architects’ thoughts on the profession” (News August 4).

  • News

    Six projects vie for £50m lottery prize

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Projects including a conference centre in Sherwood Forest, a technology museum on a former airfield in Wiltshire and a cluster of waterways schemes in Somerset are on a shortlist to receive to £50 million of lottery money.

  • Multimedia

    Architecture Foundation Summer Nights 2006

    2006-08-04T00:00:00Z

    Jakob Dunkle of Querkraft at BDP Clerkenwell, Wednesday 9 August.