All Building Design articles in 14 May 2010 – Page 2

  • Studio RHE’s striking 24-storey tower
    News

    Cabe backs Studio RHE’s east London tower

    2010-05-17T08:00:00Z

    Cabe has given a cautious thumbs-up to Studio RHE’s plans for a striking 24-storey tower in east London.

  • Scottish Enterprise accused of freezing out Scottish design talent
    News

    Scottish Enterprise insists on an 'international winner'

    2010-05-14T22:34:00Z

    The RIAS has accused the public backers of a controversial Aberdeen scheme of freezing out Scottish design talent.

  • Opinion

    Building on the bureaucratic rubble

    2010-05-14T09:10:00Z

    Coalition government could be the best news the construction industry’s had in years

  • Before the river walk, the NT was designed around the car.
    News

    Curtain up on National Theatre proposals

    2010-05-14T08:00:00Z

    Haworth Tompkins has unveiled detailed proposals for its £50 million transformation of Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre, ahead of a planning submission expected next month.

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    Our heritage is in your hands

    2010-05-14T07:00:00Z

    The Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail needs your help to survive

  • Opinion

    Shoddy masonry

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    We need an RIBA with a spine that stands up for the profession rather than a “yes body”. We also need an institute that has a council with no conflicts of interest whatsoever, as the “fingers in pies” scenario on any panel is highly detrimental to it functioning properly

  • News

    Students win HTA placement

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Two architectural students from Oxford Brookes University have won a student ideas competition to design a contemporary affordable housing scheme.

  • Oscar Niemeyer
    News

    Niemeyer leaves hospital

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (pictured) has left hospital after spending nearly two week being treated for a urinary infection.

  • Opinion

    Use your head

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Charles Bain Smith (Letters May 7) seems to have a smattering of gynaecological knowledge which doesn’t seem all that applicable to staircases.

  • Opinion

    The grisly truth

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    The question last week about the 100mm rule on staircases has a slightly grisly answer I think.

  • News

    Green light for Leeds regeneration plans

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Planners have approved DLG Architects’ £30 million office and retail development in Leeds.

  • Michael Gove
    Opinion

    Gove must try harder, not us

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    As an architect who has been working on school projects, including BSF schemes for the last 15 years, I feel I have to respond to Michael Gove’s statement that architectural practices “have done so well out of the Building Schools for the Future programme by creaming off cash which should ...

  • The Fortaleza Hall
    News

    Foster's waxes historical in Racine

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    The American company behind Toilet Duck and Mr Muscle has opened a Foster & Partners-designed hall.

  • News

    Make’s Olympic signpost stumbles at first hurdle

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Developers have pledged to redouble efforts to realise plans by Make Architects for a landmark building which would signpost entry into London in time for the 2012 Olympics

  • News

    RARA launches festival tours

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    The Redundant Architects Recreation Association (RARA) is to host barge tours of east London, brew its own beer and hold an exhibition of members’ work as part of next month’s London Festival of Architecture.

  • Features

    This week's ups & downs

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Hot and Not

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Contrary to our report last week, the Olympic Park wind turbines are not being developed by Atkins but by the firm Quiet Revolutions

  • Opinion

    Time for change

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    In common with many others, I am beginning to despair of the RIBA. Its timid approach on the low pay issue, the disarray of RIBA London, and the council members who have not signed the declaration of interests form, thereby potentially making council decisions open to challenge, are all signs ...

  • Anthony Hunt
    Features

    Celebrate the station

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    When the Building Research Station celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1971, BD asked some of the industry’s leading lights what they thought of it.

  • Clifford Martin
    News

    Martin replaces Firth at Capita

    2010-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Clifford Martin (pictured) has been appointed head of Capita Architecture, the architecture division of Capita Symonds