All Building Design articles in 14 March 2008 – Page 3

  • News

    Big names set to join Circle’s healthcare framework

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Health Properties Management, the development arm of UK-wide private healthcare operator Circle, has revealed that it is looking to sign more high-profile firms up to its hospitals panel.

  • News

    Bid to stop Jewish charity dinner

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Charles Jencks, Eva Jiricna and recent RIBA gold medal winner Ted Cullinan are among 45 architects who have signed a letter calling for the cancellation of a dinner at Windsor Castle in aid of a Jewish charity, claiming the organisations is oppressing Palestinians through construction work.

  • Features

    The principled life of a BD editor

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Martin Pawley, who died this week, photographed editing BD during the early eighties

  • Design for James Dyson's School of Design Innovation in Bath
    News

    Bath Council set to reject Wilkinson Eyre design school

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre’s troubled scheme for James Dyson’s School of Design Innovation in Bath looks set to be rejected next week after planning officers recommended that the scheme be denied planning permission.

  • Reid Architects' proposed office building
    News

    Manchester is banking on Reid to fuse new design with the old

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Reid Architects is about to go on site with this competition-winning £8 million design which will fuse a five-storey grade II listed former bank and a new 10-storey building in Manchester, near the city’s Piccadilly station.

  • Architect's design for Birnbeck Island and Weston-super-Mare pier
    News

    Island plan goes back to nature

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Levitate Architecture & Design Studio has beaten AOC, Flacq and Richards Partington Architects in a joint Urban Splash/RIBA competition for Birnbeck Island and the grade II* listed pier at Weston-super-Mare.

  • News

    Plasma scoops Next Generation award

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    East London-based practice wins prestigious BD-sponsored title

  • News

    Artists oppose Foster’s scheme

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Artists Tracy Emin, Dinos Chapman and Rachel Whiteread have joined the campaign opposing the redevelopment of Bishop’s Place, between Shoreditch and Brick Lane in east London, masterplanned by Foster & Partners for Hammerson.

  • News

    UK architects seek to modernise Paris

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    British-based architects including Zaha Hadid, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, Michel Mossessian and Think Place are competing to lead one of 10 multi- disciplinary teams tasked with creating a future vision for Paris.

  • Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre design
    News

    Fosters Abu Dhabi WTC

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners’ latest Middle East project, the Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre, has been unveiled at the Mipim property fair in Cannes.

  • News

    Mipim blog 2008

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

  • Features

    Dot to Dot: March 14

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Name the building for a chance win a new book on Renzo Piano’s museum projects published by Monacelli Press.

  • Features

    London Met student wins travel award for Soho courtyard scheme

    2008-03-13T19:03:00Z

    London Metropolitan University student Alex Bank has won the Architecture Foundation and KPF’s public space travel scholarship.

  • News

    Enter our contest to revive Robin Hood Gardens

    2008-03-13T17:39:00Z

    BD and the Architecture Foundation have teamed up to organise a contest for architects to bring a new lease of life to Robin Hood Gardens. A group of architects and buildings experts including Simon Smithson and Peter Cook, Rowan Moore of the Architecture Foundation and engineer Matthew Wells, will produce ...

  • Opinion

    Question of taste

    2008-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Liverpool’s status as cultural capital of Europe is having a galvanising effect on its catering.

  • Opinion

    Too much sex

    2008-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Call me a fuddy duddy if you wish, but the RIBA debate, This house believes there should be more sex in architecture, is diabolical and banal (Boots March 7).

  • Opinion

    Lift and separate

    2008-03-13T00:00:00Z

    After Kent School of Architecture gave students the task of designing a torture chamber, those in the North-west are next to have an eye-popping brief handed down to them.

  • Opinion

    Lesson from MK

    2008-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Amid the often depressing housing that has been rolled out across the green fields in Milton Keynes over many years, there has always been one reliable high point: the design of local schools.

  • Opinion

    Why Robin Hood needn’t keel over

    2008-03-13T00:00:00Z

    History shows that all Robin Hood Gardens needs is the will to make work

  • Opinion

    Making his mark

    2008-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Four years after Ken Shuttleworth left Foster & Partners to set up Make, his own practice, his influence appears to be undimmed.