All Building Design articles in 13 April 2007 – Page 2

  • News

    Soho pool restoration

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Munkenbeck & Marshall’s proposed £25 million redevelopment of this historic Soho swimming pool has been submitted to Westminster City Council for planning permission.

  • Opinion

    NY uncharmed

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Will Alsop may have thoroughly charmed the Observer’s normally ruthless interviewer, Lynn Barber, in her profile of him in last week’s edition, but the maverick architect is having a tougher time of it on the other side of the Pond.

  • Opinion

    Listening skills

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield endured a torrid time last week while defending his luxury De Vere Gardens apartment scheme to the planning committee and the mostly hostile residents of Kensington & Chelsea.

  • Zoe Blackler
    Opinion

    Rouse’s invaluable legacy

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The Housing Corporation’s new design strategy demonstrates impressive ambition

  • News

    What's hot in Milan

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The world's largest annual furniture fair takes place in Milan this week, with key collections from Jean Nouvel, Ron Arad and Zaha Hadid.

  • News

    Liverpool win for Haworth Tomkins

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Haworth Tompkins is celebrating its biggest project win to date after it was appointed to design a £35 million revamp of the Everyman and Playhouse theatres in Liverpool.

  • Make’s proposed luxury apartment block in Marylebone.
    News

    Marylebone project go-ahead

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Westminster council has granted planning for Make Architects’ luxury apartment development on Weymouth Street in Marylebone.

  • Domestic bliss? “Houseful of Plastics”, taken from Life magazine, 1952.
    Review

    The home front, US style

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Modern architecture is intrinsically tied up with war, argues this US-centric book reviewed by Catherine Croft

  • Stacked oak: architectural in construction or just material?
    Review

    Lesson from failure

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Andy Goldsworthy’s message that nature is cruel is delivered without sentiment.

  • Features

    Rubber factory hits the final stretch

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Date 2001, Location Brynmawr, Wales, Architect ACP

  • News

    Revamp for Euston station

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    American architect Leo A Daly has beaten competition from Make and Arup for a £1 billion redesign of one of London’s most notorious 1960s eyesores, Euston station.

  • The potential of the roofscape.
    Technical

    I wish i’d done that...

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Tezuka Architects’ Roof House

  • News

    Six in running for Eltham mixed-use development

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Six firms have been shortlisted in an RIBA competition for a mixed-use scheme at the Eltham Baths site in south-east London.

  • Opinion

    Customer service

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Since I became a member of the RIBA in the 1970s, I have been hearing the same call for the institute to “promote” architects more. And I have seen the esteem in which architects are held and the power they have steadily decline.

  • The proposed public square.
    News

    Edinburgh critics will fight on

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    £300m Caltongate project in for planning, but campaigners fear it could jeopardise city’s world heritage status

  • Ruth Kelly
    News

    Kelly refuses to rein in councils on green homes

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Communities secretary Ruth Kelly has refused to rein in those local authorities demanding faster adoption of the Code for Sustainable Homes, despite intense lobbying from house builders.

  • News

    Housing Corp gets tough

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Corporation sets out strategy to boost quality of affordable homes

  • Valentine typewriter for Olivetti, 1969.
    Review

    Lacking colour

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    A new show does little justice to Ettore Sottsass’s influential career, says Charles Holland

  • Visualisation of the Reform Club (centre) with its new roof tiles.
    Technical

    Restoration drama at Pall Mall Reform Club

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The same terracotta tiles as those on Rome’s Palazzo Farnese are set to brighten up the historic private members’ club on London’s Pall Mall.

  • The entrance court on Anglesea Street.
    Building Study

    Cool heads at city hall

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The architect’s acute observations of Cork and conceptual understanding of the city’s urban context have produced a splendid extension to the city hall. Pictures by Dennis Gilbert/View