All Building Design articles in 15 July 2005 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    Level playing field

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    It is disturbing to read in BD of suggestions that deals are already being done between Stuart Lipton and the London Development Agency for building Olympic homes (News July 1 and July 8).

  • News

    Fans go wild for Zaha superstar

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Star worship scaled new heights at the UIA congress in Istanbul last week as speakers were mobbed by fans demanding autographs and souvenir snaps.

  • The future of Atkins’s Lea Square — dubbed  “the Three Floating Clouds” — on the edge of the Olympics site, hangs in the balance because the  land may be needed for parking.
    News

    Olympics outsiders face uncertain future

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Developments on edge of games site could go on backburner to make way for parking

  • News

    Foster lambasts disjointed Thames Gateway planning

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster has broken his long political silence to criticise deputy prime minster John Prescott’s ambitious housing plans in the Thames Gateway.

  • Green machines: the cycling haven of Center Parcs.
    Technical

    Utopia at Center Parcs

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    As long as we are ruled by roads, the public realm will remain a mess

  • Opinion

    Lost cause

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    I felt that I was witnessing an architectural crit circa 1970 at the Cabe public design review of Levitt Bernstein’s NEV theatre in Shrewsbury at the Royal College of Surgeons (News Analysis July 8).

  • News

    Cabe cracks down on Lift

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Watchdog concerns over PPP design quality will see design experts attached to new health projects

  • Opinion

    From car breakers to record breakers

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    The Lower Lea Valley is rich, complex territory.

  • David Adjaye with Nikolaus Hirsch.
    Building Study

    Setting the boundaries

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    ith a string of public commissions, German practice Wandel Hoefer Lorch & Hirsch has rocketed to world prominence. Partner Nikolaus Hirsch talks to David Adjaye about how his inspiration comes from limitations.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Pushy femaleMeeting UIA presidential candidate Louise Cox, Boots was keen to confirm reports that the feisty Australian was the only woman ever to have been thrown off a building site for swearing. “It’s not true,” she says disappointingly, before saving the day by adding: “But I was nearly pushed off ...

  • News

    Fosters pair in terror blast

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Two Foster & Partners architects were injured in last Thursday’s bomb attacks in London.

  • The right idea: Adler & Sullivan’s Guaranty Building was praised by Caruso.
    Opinion

    A bigger idea

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    I admire the way Adam Caruso nailed the current unsustainable “ideas deficit” in his essay (Analysis June 17).

  • News

    UCE and De Montfort improve, but still could do better

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    A school of architecture which last year saw 90% of its students fail their part I course is hailing a pass rate of 61% this year.

  • KPF's Bishopsgate Tower, recently submitted for planning approval, was modelled in MicroStation Generative Components and is here shown in the Bentley XM Beta environment. No translation was needed, files are forward- and backward-compatible.
    Features

    Banging the drum for the Beta

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    KPF’s Lars Hesselgren finds XM, the latest generation of MicroStation, faster and better in every way

  • News

    Prince Charles backs Pathfinder bulldozers

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Demolition of homes in Nelson gets approval from Prince’s Foundation

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    Features

    Architest

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    This week: sport.

  • News

    Arch revival

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    John McAslan & Partners has released the first image of proposals to revamp public space around Marble Arch in London’s West End.

  • News

    New York eyes 2016

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    New York has bounced back from its Olympics defeat last week with new bold plans to host the games in 2016.

  • News

    Beware of 2012 trophies, warn analysts

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    City analysts are divided over the extent to which the Olympics will provide a boost for the construction industry, with some warning architects not to get involved in “big trophy projects” following previous high-profile problems on Wembley Stadium and Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.

  • Opinion

    2012 race is the golden opportunity

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    It already seems a world away, but the euphoria of last week’s decision to hand London the right to host the 2012 Olympics, will resonate through architecture in this country and beyond for the next decade.