All Building Design articles in 15 May 2009 – Page 2

  • News

    This week's ups & downs

    2009-05-15T01:00:00Z

    Hot and not

  • West elevation of the proposed Westminster Theatre development.
    News

    Revisions risk scuppering theatre development

    2009-05-15T01:00:00Z

    Plans by Loates-Taylor Shannon and theatre specialist Tim Foster to rebuild London’s historic Westminster Theatre are hanging in the balance after original plans became unviable

  • News

    Upton housing reaches completion

    2009-05-15T01:00:00Z

    The UK's first zero-carbon homes outside the BRE Innovation Park have been completed in Upton in Northamptonshire

  • Andy Burnham
    News

    Burnham to police design standards

    2009-05-15T01:00:00Z

    Government design champion and culture secretary Andy Burnham will be tasked with ensuring Whitehall departments bring all new government building projects up to scratch

  • News

    Brighton firm splits as workload collapses

    2009-05-15T01:00:00Z

    Brighton practice DRP Architects has split into two new companies after losing 90% of its workload because of the recession

  • Sheppard Robson’s Rose Bowl building for Leeds Metropolitan University was officially opened last Friday.
    News

    Rose Bowl blossoms

    2009-05-15T01:00:00Z

    Sheppard Robson’s Rose Bowl building for Leeds Metropolitan University was officially opened last Friday

  • News

    Seven on all-time Stirling shortlist

    2009-05-15T01:00:00Z

    Seven buildings have been shortlisted for the RIBA Journal/Schüco Stirling of Stirlings, a vote for the best building of the entire 175 years of the RIBA’s existence

  • News

    Link up with opportunities abroad

    2009-05-15T01:00:00Z

    The second annual Beyond Britain conference - hosted by BD in association with UK Trade & Investment, the government's international business development organisation - will be held on May 21

  • Brisac Gonzalez’s arts centre.
    News

    Aberdeen row over rival plans

    2009-05-15T01:00:00Z

    Landscape architect Martha Schwartz is working on a £140 million Aberdeen project which critics claim threatens an arts centre scheme in the same location by Brisac Gonzalez Architects

  • Opinion

    Recession proof

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    I have recently been given the wonderful new status of RIBA associate member. This enables me to have a name that “better reflects the status of aspiring professionals”, a name that will only be known to myself, as of course to actually use the letters of RIBA I need to ...

  • Giuseppe Pagano’s photograph of the Palazzetto dello Sport under construction.
    Review

    Photographs of Italian modernism are on a mission to influence

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    A magic period for Italian design is depicted in this exhibition at the Estorick Collection in London

  • Features

    Insurance for part II graduates

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    I am thinking of setting myself up as a self-employed architectural assistant. As I am an RIBA part II qualified person but not a fully qualified architect, can I use the same PII procedures or is there insurance that has been designed specifically for non-architects?

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Prince fails on sustainability

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Prince Charles’s rejection of experimentation irrationally dismisses our best hope of tackling climate change

  • Features

    Quinlan Terry proves fixed and eternal

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    The right-wing renaissance in architecture was already making ground 28 years ago

  • Opinion

    No duplication

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    There will have been wry smiles at the thought of Cabe the “spendaholic”, retaining the best professionals in the business on £400 a day (Leader May 8)

  • Opinion

    Queen of clubs

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    I note that in her tirade against the RIBA (Practice April 17) that Irena Bauman did not disclose she is a Cabe commissioner, appointed not elected, and I understand paid £9,000 for the privilege

  • Full of weirdness: Castle Market shopping centre.
    Building Study

    Sheffield: City of skeletons

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Sheffield remains a unique city set in a spectacular landscape, but the gutted form of Park Hill exemplifies the efforts being spent to make it look like everywhere else

  • Carolyn Steel
    Opinion

    Courgettes loom over the city streets

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Vertical urban farms could solve many of the world’s food problems - but at what cost?

  • Opinion

    Through thick and thin: Prince Charles and Michael Manser

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    After 25 years Michael Manser had his second meeting with Prince Charles on Tuesday evening. This time, however, things were a little more amicable

  • Opinion

    Cabe enablers cheap at price

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    In the wake of the onslaught by the Conservative Party on Cabe (News May 8), it is pertinent to reflect on why its enabling programme was developed