All Building Design articles in 15 August 2008 – Page 2

  • Design concept for the exterior of the Make-designed London 2012 handball stadium
    News

    Make's design for London Olympics handball arena unveiled

    2008-08-19T12:30:00Z

    Make Architects’ designs for the London 2012 Olympic handball arena have been revealed for the first time.

  • The Icelandic Opera is situated at a relatively high point in the town along the Borgaholt-hill, where according to Icelandic folklore elves live.
    News

    Elves influence winning design for Reykjavik opera house

    2008-08-19T10:43:00Z

    Danish architect Arkitema and Icelandic firm Arkthing have won an international competition to design a major new opera house in Reykjavik, Iceland.

  • Rodney Gordon
    Features

    Rodney Gordon: An obituary

    2008-08-18T13:57:00Z

    Rodney Gordon died earlier this year at the age of 75. Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society looks back at his achievements.

  • The roof of Shell House
    News

    Hodge grants Sherborne’s Shell House grade I listing

    2008-08-15T15:55:00Z

    Architecture minister Margaret Hodge has listed the Shell House in Sherborne, Dorset, at grade I, labelling it a “great example of British craftsmanship at its best”.

  • Herzog & de Meuron's Walker Art Gallery - animation
    Multimedia

    Herzog & de Meuron Walker Art Centre (Video)

    2008-08-15T14:34:00Z

    Watch a computer-animated flythrough of Herzog & de Meuron's Walker Art Centre expansion.

  • Salisbury's famous cathedrale
    News

    RIBA launches competition to give Salisbury a “grand square to rival any in Europe”

    2008-08-15T12:25:00Z

    Salisbury’s historic city centre could be transformed thanks to a new RIBA design competition.

  • Hazardous duo: Alsop & Holland.
    Opinion

    Silly season

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    Are the idle August days going to architects’ heads? First Boots hears reports that 5th Studio has been hanging about at Walthamstow dog track, scoffing chips and trying to win a bob or two.

  • 270m-high tower above Moscow’s Belaruskia train station
    News

    Reach for the stars

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    New York-based Evolo Architecture, an international collective of architects, has published a book on the future of the skyscraper, presenting the best projects arising from an ideas competition the firm has been running annually since 2006.

  • News

    Next step of regeneration signed

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    Southwark Council in London has signed a partnership agreement with developer Lend Lease to secure the next stages in the £1.5 billion transformation of Elephant & Castle.

  • Liz Bury
    Opinion

    An Olympic-sized mistake

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    Policy Exchange’s ideas on northern decline have a lot to say about prospects, but not a lot about people

  • Opinion

    Knives are out

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    Meanwhile, Alsop’s latest designs in the Far East — a sales office for Raffles City and a shopping mall in Beijing — are causing a stir, and not in a good way.

  • Opinion

    Plum job

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    While the chance to follow in Christopher Frayling’s footsteps as rector of the Royal College of Art is clearly a plum job, contrary to BD’s claim (Boots, August 1), it is not one I want.

  • Opinion

    Web of intrigue

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    Is a chink appearing in the corporate armour of Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron?

  • Opinion

    Max happy

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    In response to last week’s story on Hab (News August 8), Max Fordham Consulting Engineers would like to state that we remain wholeheartedly committed to the Hab project and its ongoing effort to deliver innovative and sustainable designs to improve the quality of housebuilding in the UK.

  • News

    RIBA’s take on Wikipedia goes live

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    RIBA launches its own version of Wikipedia today.

  • Prouvé’s sketch of how he envisaged the structure...
    Technical

    Techniker gets to grips with Jean Prouvé’s historic prefab house

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    The solution for protecting Prouvé’s antique prefab on its travels to the hurricane-prone southern US involves stripping it to its structural core

  • The masterplan for a transport interchange for the Thames Gateway in Barking.
    News

    Gateway interchange pair picked

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    Atkins Urban Design and Grimshaw Architects have been chosen to draw up the masterplan for a transport interchange for the Thames Gateway in Barking.

  • The £3 million scheme to redevelop Stromness Pierhead in the Orkney Islands.
    News

    Malcolm Fraser to redevelop Stromness pierhead

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    Edinburgh-based Malcolm Fraser Architects has endured an emotional rollercoaster of a week, scooping an international RIAS competition while also being forced to make a quarter of its staff redundant.

  • Opinion

    Safe and found

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    Issues of data security were raised in a rather different context this week.

  • This week's ups and downs
    News

    This week's ups and downs

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    Hot and Not