All Building Design articles in 14 March 2008 – Page 2

  • Dimension UPVC window with optional aluminium capping
    Technical

    More panes, more gains

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    As thermal performance rises up the agenda, Will Hunter trawled the recent Ecobuild show at Earls Court to find the windows with the best U-values

  • Fat's design for the Bentley area of Walsall
    News

    Fat wins in Walsall

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Fat has triumphed in an RIBA competition to design a community library facility in Walsall, the first time it has won a competition to design a public building.

  • Architects drawing of new Mersey Observatory in Crosby
    News

    Duggan Morris victory at Mersey Observatory

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Duggan Morris Architects is to design the new Mersey Observatory in Crosby after seeing off competition from Studio 8, Phos Architects, Farrell & Clark, and Ellis Williams Architects.

  • Technical

    Rich man, poor man: door knobs

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Globe turning door handles and Smooth round glass door knobs

  • Martin Pawley
    News

    Martin Pawley dies

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Martin Pawley, architect, critic, teacher, and a former editor of BD, died on Sunday aged 69, after a long illness.

  • OMA Architects masterplan for a 12 million sq m waterfront development in Dubai
    News

    OMA unveils Dubai development

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    OMA Architects has revealed its masterplan for a 12 million sq m waterfront development in Dubai.

  • Schoolchildren work at design.
    Review

    Design school

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Results of an initiative by the Scottish government and Glasgow’s Lighthouse to involve teachers and pupils in school design are on show at the Lighthouse.

  • News

    EH joins in criticism of Luton retail scheme

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    English Heritage has joined the Victorian Society in condemning a £150 million Broadway Malyan retail scheme which involves demolishing two grade II listed buildings in Luton’s historic hat-making district.

  • The Architectural Association's pavilion at Bedford Square in London
    News

    Concrete creates elegant pavilion

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    The Architectural Association’s pavilion at Bedford Square in London opened on Thursday 13 March.

  • Features

    Pawley’s prescience on the city

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Glancey recalls his disagreements with former BD editor Martin Pawley, who died this week, about the future of the city

  • Belinda Enthoven’s panorama of Epping Forest surrounds postcards of east London’s Green Grid.
    Review

    Making a public stand at London Open City

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Fred Manson on the Design for London exhibition at Somerset House on the value of public space

  • Terry Farrell
    News

    ‘Delighted’ Edinburgh champions Farrell

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Terry Farrell will remain as Edinburgh City Council’s design champion, despite earlier rumours that the local authority was poised to scrap the position.

  • HOK Sport's design for Olympique Lyonnais's new 60,000-seat stadium
    News

    HOK Sport's champion design for Lyon FC

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    HOK Sport unveiled its designs for Olympique Lyonnais’s new 60,000-seat stadium at the Mipim property fair in Cannes this week.

  • New main entrance to the Museum of Somerset
    News

    FCB Studios wins castle consent

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ visitor centre for the Museum of Somerset at grade I listed Taunton Castle has won planning.

  • St Peter's seminary, Cardross, Scotland
    News

    Urban Splash hires Hoskins for Cardross regeneration

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Developer Urban Splash has hired Gareth Hoskins Architects to develop regeneration ideas for one of Scotland’s most important modernist buildings, St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross.

  • Ted Cullinan wins RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2007
    News

    RIBA calls for medal nominees

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA is calling for nominations for next year’s RIBA Royal Gold Medal.

  • News

    Capita Symonds buys up Lovejoy

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Capita Symonds has bought one of the UK’s largest multi-disciplinary consultancies, Lovejoy, for an undisclosed sum.

  • News

    BPF chief calls for green incentives

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    The British Property Federation has called on ministers to offer financial incentives in return for better environmental performance in buildings.

  • News

    Darling cash boosts green housing

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that he will pour £26 million into the government’s Green Homes Service from next year in a bid to improve the sustainability credentials of the UK’s housing stock.

  • News

    Wifi to boost new city development

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Southampton’s architecture centre is to use wireless technology to transmit site-specific stories to the public in a bid to increase architectural awareness in the city.