All Building Design articles in 14 October 2005

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  • News

    Into the woods

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    James Gorst Architects has entered a country house in the New Forest for planning permission.

  • Opinion

    Toyo Taverso

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Ian Martin is away. This week’s diarist is the influential designer and polemicist Toyo Taverso, winner of the 2005 RIPBA Real Gold Medal for Top-Quality Architecture.

  • Opinion

    Turn off the style

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    It is very disturbing to hear that planners in the Lake District are taking a stylistic stance in promoting “bold modern design”, by which they mean “something that is recognisably of today” — the tired old mantra of modernism.

  • White Design’s proposal for its Archimedia Centre in Bristol was submitted to planners this week.
    News

    Spotcheck

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    South-west

  • News

    South-west

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

  • Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has unveiled images of its 168m tower on London’s South Bank.
    News

    Soaring south

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has unveiled images of its 168m tower on London’s South Bank.

  • Opinion

    School of thought

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    School Works was happy to work with BD on the Stirling Prize feature.

  • Chipperfield’s two-storey library is part of a brownfield redevelopment near Des Moines city centre. Asymmetrical “fingers” extend into courtyards that are meant to give visitors the impression of reading books in a parkland setting.
    Technical

    Reading in the shade

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Copper mesh cladding will stop Chipperfield’s Des Moines Library overheating

  • News

    Power play

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has announced more than a billion pounds in new funding to improve and build schools across the country. The initiative includes funding for 10 more Classroom of the Future design projects and 12 new schools in later stages of the Building Schools for the Future programme.

  • News

    People

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Housing practice PRP Architects has promoted several staff members, following 15% growth in its staff base. The practice now has 10 new associate directors among its 320 employees.

  • the shell-shaped pavilion that will act as a welcoming point.
    News

    Time to splash out

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Wright Associates has designed this windswept home and pavilion inspired by the sea and located on a remote island off the Irish mainland.

  • Opinion

    The mistake of the mega-practice

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    I have developed a form of Tourette’s syndrome whereby the misuse of the words “innovation” and “creativity” results in convulsions and machine-gun obscenities. Life has got harder (and the office noisier) recently.

  • Opinion

    Lost in translation

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The conclusion to Rab Bennetts’ Soapbox column on 30 September was edited to reinforce his plea for more considered modern architecture from UK architects working abroad.

  • Opinion

    Simply a mega idea

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Mega practices? Bring ’em on!

  • News

    Hit and miss

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Work has started on Wilkinson Eyre’s £146 million Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre at Kings Waterfront. The 9,500 capacity arena and 1,350 capacity conference centre will take two years to construct. The practice unveiled new images of the interior of the centre this week.

  • News

    MP hits out as Ritchie scheme gets the nod

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Ian Ritchie has won planning permission for his controversial design for the Potters Field site near Tower Bridge.

  • The end elevations of the perimeter apartment block in Maccreanor Lavington’s Terwijde project. Escape stairs in plate steel connect the internal galleries to the ground.
    Building Study

    Suburb of the future?

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    If Britain is to solve its housing crisis, we must learn to love suburbia. Could Maccreanor Lavington in Holland show us how?

  • Imperial tobacco factory in Bristol
    News

    Tobacco to the future

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Acanthus Ferguson Mann submitted a planning application this week for its conversion of the former Imperial Tobacco office building in Bristol.

  • News

    French twist

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled images of a new library in Pau, France.

  • News

    ODPM takes flak on sustainability

    2005-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The government is under fire from its own expert advisers over the way it is handling new sustainable building laws.