All Building Design articles in 15 December 2006 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    Green issues dominate this year and next

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    How will architects remember 2006? As the year when a member of the BNP stood for election as RIBA president, or when Sunand Prasad became the first non-white architect to succeed?

  • News

    Jowell: Olympic design has role to inspire

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Culture minister Tessa Jowell has said the Olympic Development Authority must “ensure design is as much of a pre-occupation as cost control” as it procures buildings for the 2012 games.

  • Opinion

    Games need design, delivery and legacy

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Commentators have written recently that it has been “a good couple of weeks” for design and the Olympics. Amid some of the negative headlines on this same issue this is good to hear, but I do fear that the debate over the design approach for Olympic venues is in danger ...

  • News

    Gateway skills crisis highlighted

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The skills shortage among existing Thames Gateway residents is the “number one” challenge facing the project, according to the newly appointed chief executive of the Gateway.

  • News

    Save may fight Supreme Court proposal

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Feilden & Mawson’s planned conversion of the grade II* listed Middlesex Guildhall on Parliament Square could face a legal challenge from Save Britain’s Heritage.

  • News

    Softroom scoops country house hotel design prize

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Softroom has triumphed in a controversial RIBA competition to design a country-house hotel in Lancashire.

  • News

    The cost of going global

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Top architects’ green credentials in doubt as their international flights create huge quantities of carbon

  • Opinion

    Dump the dismal Collieston entries

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The Collieston competition (BD December 8) should have been inspirational.

  • News

    Website gives free view of Sir John Soane’s collection

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The entire collection of drawings and records held at Sir John Soane’s Museum is to be made available to the public free online.

  • News

    Lloyd’s and listing lobby choose to collaborate

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The Twentieth Century Society has put on hold its controversial plan to apply for the spot-listing of the Lloyd’s of London headquarters after meeting the building’s managers this week.

  • Technical

    Defining zero carbon

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Off-site energy sources can now be used for carbon-neutral housing

  • News

    Buildings in the news

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    It was a good year for...

  • News

    Bold as brass

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    NBBJ Architects has won planning permission from Tower Hamlets council for this £28 million Biosciences Innovation Centre in Whitechapel for Queen Mary College London, the London Development Agency and the Department for Communities & Local Government.

  • News

    Next generation’s big break

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Young architects urged to grab commercial opportunity offered by Architecture Foundation competition

  • News

    Big ideas in the news

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    It was a good year for...

  • Opinion

    Beyond a joke

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    What forces created the “prison camp-esque” Tranmere scheme in Merseyside? (Works December 1).

  • Features

    Architest

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    This week: 2006 revisted

  • News

    Camarthen Place houses by Architects in Residence

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Young practice Architects In Residence has unveiled this striking residential scheme built on a tight urban site in London.

  • News

    A&DS blasts architects for ignoring earlier criticisms

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Scotland’s design watchdog Architecture & Design Scotland (A&DS) has published a second damning report on Orkney Architects’ scheme for an office development on Victoria Street in Kirkwall, Orkney, accusing the designer of ignoring its comments on an earlier version.

  • News

    Mather Liverpool academy hit by science park row

    2006-12-15T00:00:00Z

    A flagship building for Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture in 2008 is at the centre of a furious row between architect Rick Mather and local developers.