All Building Design articles in 13 March 2009 – Page 3

  • David Chipperfield Architects’ Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, West Yorkshire
    News

    Hepworth Gallery topped out

    2009-03-13T00:15:00Z

    David Chipperfield Architects’ Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, has been topped out

  • Michael Pitt
    News

    Pitt favoured as new body’s chair

    2009-03-13T00:15:00Z

    Housing minster Margaret Beckett has named Michael Pitt the preferred choice for chairman of the newly created Infrastructure Planning Commission, which will be based in Bristol

  • Allies & Morrison’s 43-storey residential tower Eileen House, in Elephant & Castle, south London
    News

    Come on Eileen

    2009-03-13T00:10:00Z

    Allies & Morrison’s 43-storey residential tower Eileen House, in Elephant & Castle, south London, has been submitted for planning

  • £24 million Newcastle City Library
    News

    Library is first chapter in city PFI

    2009-03-13T00:10:00Z

    Developer Kajima has handed over the keys of the Ryder Architecture-designed £24 million Newcastle City Library to Newcastle Libraries in a ceremony attended by poet laureate Andrew Motion

  • News

    LDA unveils new urban agenda

    2009-03-13T00:07:00Z

    The London Development Agency announced its new citywide urban agenda at Mipim on Wednesday

  • There are many plannng departments which are short of architectural skills
    News

    Now jobless architects soar to 1,000

    2009-03-13T00:07:00Z

    Help offered for alternative careers

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Do you still want protection?

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    We hope our Arb survey will give an accurate picture of what the profession really feels

  • Opinion

    Peace off

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Boots is somewhat out of date (March 6). Hackney Council has agreed not to proceed with the removal of Banksy’s recent work in Gillett Square, pending an application for planning permission to designate this site as a location for street art

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    Value the whole, not the parts

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Nature England this week has broken with quango tradition and spoken sense: that the arbitrary division we make between the areas we conserve and those we exploit must end

  • Richard Seifert: in need of a little post-modern theory.
    Review

    When Richard Seifert stalked the land

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    This take on Richard ‘Colonel’ Seifert’, one of the stalwarts of London’s architectural scene in the 1960s, was a little too cosy

  • White Horse: let’s get real about this.
    Opinion

    Horse sense

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Further to Jonathan’s Glancey’s article (February 20) regarding the expense of Mark Wallinger’s White Horse at Ebbsfleet, there is a simple solution.

  • Opinion

    Raise your game

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    In response to Andrew Black (Letters February 27) and his apparent concern for the work being done by architectural consultants/ designers, are we to believe that only part III RIBA architects are qualified to design buildings?

  • Fosters' mixed-use building in La Défense, Paris
    Multimedia

    Fosters' Paris towers (fly-through)

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Watch a fly-through of Foster and Partners plans for the tallest mixed use building in Europe.

  • Robin Hood Gardens: would demolition be an “act of barbarism”?
    Opinion

    Has English Heritage failed to protect Robin Hood Gardens?

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Dan Cruickshank, it has utterly failed to realise the estate’s worth and potential; while EH’s Steve Bee says not recommending it for listing doesn’t mean it should be lost

  • Opinion

    Time to educate

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Over the past 15 years, I have delivered many seminars to the public, which often does not understand that being an “architectural designer” is not the same thing.

  • Carolyn Steel
    Opinion

    Easing the march of the Tesco towns

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    The supermarket behemoth won a competition ruling last week that will dictate the shape of our cities to come

  • Crittall glazing is used at Sony BMG’s HQ.
    Technical

    New solutions for doors and windows

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Our monthly round-up of the latest products

  • Features

    Ice man cometh

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    In 1992, Frank Gehry celebrated his new chair range for Knoll Studio by dressing up in his ice hockey kit. A chacun...

  • The reconstructed cabin on show at the RIBA.
    Review

    Le Corbusier’s Le Cabanon at the RIBA

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Le Cabanon, the French Riviera beach home Le Corbusier built for his wife in the 1950s, arrives at the RIBA in a 1:1 reconstruction

  • Opinion

    Bridge of sighs

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    I read with extreme sadness about the setback for Thomas Heatherwick’s brilliant bridge design for King’s Cross (News March 6). What is £7.5 million to pay for excellence in the present climate, when a banker is rewarded for his mistakes with £20 million in public money to play golf in ...