All Building Design articles in 13 April 2006 – Page 2

  • The Department of Health has confirmed that new hospitals,
    News

    Part L sends costs spiralling

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Delays in approving Barts & Royal London mean it must now comply with tough new carbon regulations

  • News

    ‘Cinderella' role is championed

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Specification writing - described as a "Cinderella activity" in the design process - is to be championed by the newly-launched Specifiers' Design Forum with a publicity drive, conference and CPD programme.

  • News

    Kent centre loses out in Gateway

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Funding crisis forces policy changes

  • Ricky Burdett
    News

    Capital designer wanted

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Mayor of London in bid to enhance Architecture & Urbanism Unit and take on high-flying design director

  • News

    RRP Cambridge plan refused

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers Partnership's proposals for a 1,000 home development around Cambridge station have been refused planning permission.

  • The Hoffmann House, Hampstead, a small-scale back extension constructed nearly entirely of sheets of overlapping glass.
    Review

    Calm, understated and user friendly

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    A new book confirms Charles Saumarez Smith's view that Rick Mather's architecture is sophisticated and smooth

  • Wilkinson Eyre’s revised scheme still features a 40-storey tower
    News

    Wilkinson Eyre reworks Brighton Marina scheme

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre has submitted radically redesigned proposals for Brighton Marina, but kept the controversial 40-storey tower at the heart of the scheme.

  • Mendes da Rocha: “godfather” of Brazil’s brutalist movement.
    News

    Brazilian Mendes da Rocha wins Pritzker

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Brazil's Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been awarded the 2006 Pritzker Prize for architecture for work stretching back through six decades.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

  • Opinion

    Fountain blame

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    There were some errors in your article about the Diana Memorial Fountain (News March 24).

  • Opinion

    Beware of novelty

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Despite the temptation for a snigger from some quarters, your article "Academies could do better" (News March 31) may give the DfES pause for thought in the selection of signature architects and the Building Schools for the Future programme.

  • News

    MPs urged to name best public design

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    MP Ed Vaizey has submitted an early day motion urging fellow MPs to nominate buildings in their constituencies for the 2006 Prime Minister's Award for Better Public Building.

  • A
    Features

    Architest

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    This week: Five years ago, stories from BD April 12, 2001

  • Oskar Schlemmer’s Diver  costume from his Triadic Ballet, 1922.
    Review

    Architecture's great leap forward

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Ideas and ideals are prominent in the V&A's ambitious and stimulating Modernism exhibition

  • News

    Scotland rewrites architecture policy

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Scotland's policy on architecture is to be rewritten just five years after it was introduced.

  • Opinion

    Alsop in safe hands

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    It was refreshing to read Paul Hyett's observation (Letters April 7) on the recent acquisition of Will Alsop's practice by McColl.

  • News

    Government to teach school pupils about architecture

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Architecture minister David Lammy is set to announce a new initiative this spring that will see the built environment used as an educational tool, with the aim of possibly establishing an architecture GCSE.