All Building Design articles in 15 December 2006

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  • Features

    Competition

    2007-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Enter the Next Generation Award for young architects and win a trip to MIPIM

  • News

    This Week

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    This week in brief

  • News

    Spotcheck

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    This week: West Midlands

  • Technical

    Products

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    New products this week

  • Technical

    A screen on a windswept roof for a priest

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The challenge: To enable a windswept roof terrace to be used for writing sermons and entertaining

  • Features

    Platform

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    More like the movies

  • Opinion

    Obituaries

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    His approach to transport planning merged the reality of heavy traffic with the dream world of psychogeography

  • News

    People in the news

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    It was a good year for...

  • News

    Places in the news

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    It was a good year for...

  • Features

    Study in time and motion

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Electric Image Animation System is the 3D community’s best kept secret according to visualiser Ian Waters. Here, he reviews version 6.5 and discovers it is now even better

  • Opinion

    Grasp the nettle

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    BD comes to my office each week and is well enjoyed by my American colleagues.

  • Opinion

    Responsibility gap

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Surely the saddest aspect of BD’s story of “rogue architect” Peter White and his let-down clients Jean and Christopher Shaw (News analysis November 24), was the absolute failure of Arb and the RIAS to properly police a registered architect who was also a convicted fraudster.

  • News

    Foster’s latest Kazakhstan pitch

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has unveiled designs for a second iconic building in Kazakhstan — the Khan Shatyry entertainment centre in the capital Astana.

  • News

    Final twist

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Santiago Calatrava’s final design for a 610m-high spire in Chicago has been submitted for planning permission.

  • News

    Farrell races proteges for MOD super-site

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Terry Farrell is facing competition from no less than three of his former proteges in the race to masterplan what is thought to be the most valuable site in Britain.

  • News

    EP signs up young practices

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Some of the most exciting young firms in the profession received a massive boost this week as the government regeneration agency announced plans to employ them over the next four years.

  • News

    How to make an entrance

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Off the top of my head, I can think of a dozen cultural organisations that have reconfigured the entrances to their buildings in recent years.

  • Review

    Shedding light on Edinburgh’s shadows

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish city proves its extremes are a dynamic catalyst for creativity in this exhibition.

  • Review

    I'm dreaming of reading...

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    What book would you like to receive this Christmas? We asked some leading figures in the architectural world what book would top their wish-list. Judging by some of the titles, Santa may be severely tested

  • News

    A year of ups and downs

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Zoe Blackler reviews the people, buildings, places and ideas that made headlines in 2006