All Building Design articles in 11 March 2005 – Page 2

  • Japanese roomset, built in 1928, and re-created for the exhibition.
    Review

    Japanese flavours

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Pamela Buxton previews the V&A exhibition

  • News

    Ritchie joins Euro research think-tank

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    British architect Ian Ritchie has been selected to represent the profession in a new pan-European construction think-tank.

  • Opinion

    Following the herd on ethics

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Well done for raising the temperature of moral debate (News Analysis March 4). If professional magazines don’t do it, these difficult issues will go unexamined.

  • News

    Listing puts Smithfield plans in doubt

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Heritage campaigners including Prince Charles have won their fight to have part of London’s Smithfield market listed, leaving Thornfield Property and KPF’s ambitious plans for the redevelopment of the area in the balance.

  • Technical

    I wish Id done that...roof

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Stuart Piercy on FOA and Structural Design Group’s roof at Yokohama Ferry Terminal

  • Opinion

    Wrong direction

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Where did Arup’s project architect derive the symbology for the bus station at Vauxhall (Works February 25)?

  • Opinion

    A different tune

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    It is OK to design for an oppressive regime as long as one does not play the lead fiddle to the tune of oppression.

  • News

    EH woos developers

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    English Heritage chief executive Simon Thurley pledged this week to hold early talks with developers on half of all relevant planning applications.

  • Munstead Wood, Surrey, 1896-7, by Edwin Lutyens for Gertrude Jeykll, who designed the garden. Lutyens carefully chose materials to create a lavish but traditional architecture.
    Review

    Cottage industry

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    As the V&A prepares to open its arts & crafts show next week, Richard Holder discovers a British movement that took on the world

  • Opinion

    Chemical reaction

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    So Mairi Levitt and Robert Adam would willingly design a germ warfare experimentation centre for the British government because they both believe it has strict regulation on such things and would act ethically.

  • News

    Medical check-in

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    The first of a series of controversial independent treatment centres has been granted full planning permission, with work set to start on site this summer.

  • News

    Construction chaos looms

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    The construction industry faces “chaos” if a proposed EU directive to promote the free movement of services is not changed, the UK’s Construction Industry Council warned on Wednesday.

  • Rear elevation, incorporating glazing treated with a mirrored film.
    Building Study

    Room for change

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    In the final part of our live-work series, we head to Bethnal Green to see how Sergison Bates has created a flexible mix of public and private spaces for an artist, a theatre group and two therapists

  • News

    Cabe defends secrecy

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Watchdog refutes ODPM report calling for more open design reviews

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Journo gristDeputy prime minister John Prescott has a fairly well-established warm-up routine he uses at press conferences these days. It involves taking a journalist to task about a particular story that upset him and then broadly criticising all journalism. Maybe it is a ploy to get the journalists in line ...

  • The green roofs and spaces of the Wolverhampton eco-home scheme will “give a clue that it is not a conventional scheme”.
    News

    Green shoots in the Black Country

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    A flagship eco-home development in Wolverhampton has been unveiled by architect Cole Thompson Associates and project leader and research network Integer.

  • Sketch of Wintersgill’s proposals.
    News

    UK firm eyes Soviet sub base

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    A top-secret submarine base hidden beneath a mountain in eastern Europe may sound like the stuff of James Bond fantasy, but a London-based practice is working on plans to open up the real thing to western tourists.

  • Pullman: Wielding subtle knife.
    News

    Author slams dull Oxford plan

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Celebrated author Philip Pullman has attacked PRP Architects’ designs for the development of an area of Oxford that inspired his best-selling His Dark Materials trilogy.

  • News

    Fitzroy Robinson in Aukett merger deal

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

    The seven directors of London practice Fitzroy Robinson are to receive more than £2.2 million in shares after Aukett finally completed a takeover of the firm.

  • Features

    Architest

    2005-03-11T00:00:00Z

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