All Building Design articles in 12 December 2008 – Page 3

  • Mecca: does it need the perspective of an insider or an outsider?
    Opinion

    Should a Muslim architect masterplan Mecca?

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Mangera Yvars’ Ali Mangera, the practical requirement for entry to the city is being a Muslim; no, says RMJM Hillier’s Gordon Hood, it’s not an issue as design skill is a universal language

  • News

    MPs angry over fee bill for Stonehenge

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    MPs have told English Heritage to “get a grip” after it emerged that EH has spent £1.8 million on consultancy fees relating to Stonehenge in the last five years, with nothing to show for it.

  • News

    Alsop keeps identity as SMC becomes Archial Group

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Architectural giant SMC is changing its name to Archial Group in a major restructuring which will see Will Alsop’s subsidiary operate as a separate brand

  • Features

    All the fun of the peer

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Brighton’s West Pier is getting a makeover courtesy of Marks Barfield Architects. BD looks back to its 1967 heyday

  • Opinion

    Design for all

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    As an aged architect-planner, I was heartened to hear your call for the borough architect to be brought back.

  • Features

    No more starry-eyed air travel

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    With Stansted brought to a standstill by climate change protestors, we have to admit that the great age of aviation architecture is over

  • A new lift and stair take visitors up to a first-floor permanent gallery.
    Building Study

    Dow Jones Architects’ cultivated aesthetic

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    The temporary exhibition gallery at the Garden Museum on the Thames at Lambeth is a triumph of architectural imagination over budgetary constraint.

  • Opinion

    Design advice is key to planning

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Glancey’s suggestion (November 28) about setting up design training oriented towards planning would be beneficial in the long term

  • Tschumi speaking at the RIBA.
    Review

    Bernard Tschumi’s New Acropolis Museum

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Bernard Tschumi presented his New Acropolis Museum at the RIBA last week, and took Greece’s bid to win back the Elgin Marbles to the next level.

  • Holder Mathias Architects’ rugby ball-shaped heritage centre.
    News

    Holder Mathias’ £80m Neath plan

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Holder Mathias Architects has unveiled designs for an £80 million, mixed-use regeneration of Neath, near Swansea

  • Opinion

    Dot to dot results: December 5

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s competition winner was Dorota Kruk of Tempietto Architects, Hertfordshire, who identified Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral by Frederick Gibberd, aka Paddy’s Wigwam

  • News

    £4.5m centre for creative industry

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Cartwright Pickard Architects has designed a £4.5 million building for London’s East End which will house Metropolitan Works, a creative industries centre.

  • News

    Power says refurb cuts more CO2

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Refurbishing old houses rather than building new eco-homes is a better way to reduce carbon emissions in the built environment, Anne Power, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics, has claimed

  • Features

    Dot to Dot: 12 December 2008

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday December 17 for a chance to win a copy of Herzog & de Meuron Complete Works Vol 4, 1997-2001, by Gerhard Mack.

  • News

    Fears over Arts Council policy shift

    2008-12-11T18:29:00Z

    Architecture centres fear that events focusing on building design will be marginalised in favour of art projects after Arts Council England officially scrapped Architecture Week.