All Building Design articles in 12 May 2006 – Page 2

  • Alan Stanton
    Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    This week: Alan Stanton

  • Opinion

    Drama, not crisis

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    I guess crises come in all shapes and sizes. Only getting half the Arts Council funding we expected was a certainly bit of a shock at the time, but I would like to reassure visitors that it will not affect the biennale programme or their enjoyment of it at all.

  • Kew Palace, with the new lift shaft on the site of the former privy shaft.
    Building Study

    Palace coup

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Purcell Miller Tritton's refurbishment of Kew Palace is discreet and authentic, even down to the position of the new lift shaft. Now it's access for all, if a bit heavy on the ‘interpretation'

  • Opinion

    Corrections

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    A historical error appeared in our story on the restoration of Nelson's column (News May 5). Nelson won the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 not the Battle of Waterloo, which was of course won by Wellington in 1815.

  • News

    Call for clarity for Liverpool towers

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Liverpool City Council leader Warren Bradley has called for the city's tall buildings policy to be scrapped.

  • Reason to hope and celebrate: Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Cambridge housing.
    Opinion

    Repeat business

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Anyone interested in high-quality ordinary housing has traditionally had little choice but to lament what's on offer from the volume housebuilders. However, there's a serious reason to start to hope and celebrate, to judge by Feilden Clegg Bradley's scheme for Countryside Properties in Cambridge (Works May 5).

  • Featured in the report: Window at St Mary’s Harrogate in Yorkshire...
    News

    EH: Pray and pay for these buildings

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    England's houses of worship are crumbling under £118 million shortfall in repair and maintenance funding

  • News

    Row over York's plan to build retail site

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    York Council is at loggerheads with conservation groups over development plans for a controversial site next to some of the city's landmark historic buildings.

  • News

    Brakes on legal gravy train

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Bespoke contracts come to an end as industry signs up to new agreements between consultants and clients

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    News this week...

  • Architype’s Sheerness Sure Start Centre is the first Plan-Ziegel building to be completed in the UK.
    Technical

    Faster out of the blocks

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Are Ziegel blocks a quicker and more efficient alternative to cavity walls? David Littlefield finds out

  • Burdett will be judged on how he fills the immense space of the Corderie dell’Arsenale.
    News

    Burdett's big-picture gamble

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    This year's Venice Architecture Biennale will focus on urbanism rather than buildings.

  • News

    Aukett wins in Bristol and Cardiff

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Merger is paying off, says chief

  • A
    Features

    Architest

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    This week: New Labour

  • News

    Edaw Cambridge scheme approved

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Cambridge University's estate management and building service (EMBS) director has pledged to support the "highest architectural quality" after the university won permission for an Edaw-planned housing scheme through public inquiry.

  • Mike Jaggs
    Technical

    Airtightness test

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Mike Jaggs, head of BRE's airtightness testing team, on smoking out leaks in homes and commercial buildings, in line with Part L 2006.

  • News

    Hadid's AF building to be two years late

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid's iconic building for the Architecture Foundation in Southwark, London, will open at least two years late, the foundation admitted this week.

  • Ruth Kelly
    News

    Kelly promises action on housing and nimbys

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    ‘Increasing housing supply' tops communities secretary's agenda

  • News

    60K starts to look a million

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    The starter home was due for a revival, but the £60,000 house contest last August produced some mediocre results. Ten months on, though, Zoë Blackler finds design has moved up the agenda

  • The view from the village square in Urban Salon’s £60,000 house competition entry.
    News

    Urban Salon cut from £60k house contest

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    John Prescott's main legacy to the built environment may prove to be the £60,000 homes created through his Design for Manufacture competition.