All Building Design articles in 16 July 2010 – Page 2

  • CABE chairman Stuart Lipton
    News

    Cabe must cut back to core, say former bosses

    2010-07-16T08:44:00Z

    Lipton and Rouse call for watchdog to focus on design reviews and produce fewer reports.

  • Norman Foster  Maintains that he moved to Switzerland for family reasons rather than  to avoid tax
    News

    Tax row could still see Foster lose his title

    2010-07-16T08:30:00Z

    Norman Foster and other individuals who gave up their membership of the House of Lords for tax reasons could now face being stripped of their titles under forthcoming legislation.

  • Section AA1
    Features

    Andrew K Green - Lincoln School of Architecture

    2010-07-16T08:30:00Z

    A collection of 20th century novels provide the conceptual basis of Green’s thesis, where the scheme takes the form of a state university library and archive, proposed for a site in Yerevan, Armenia.

  • Adrian Dobson - RIBA director of practice
    News

    Practices gloomy about future, warns RIBA

    2010-07-16T08:15:00Z

    The latest Future Trends Survey from RIBA is warning that architects are expecting to find it harder to win work in the future.

  • “If a firm can come up with a blueprint… it could make huge sums of money” Toby Young
    News

    Free schools ‘offer new market for architects’

    2010-07-16T08:00:00Z

    As BSF bites the dust, campaigner claims initiative provides opportunity.

  • “We’d like a critical mass of 25-30 people as a first stopping-off point” Peter Drummond
    News

    UK firms eye China expansion

    2010-07-16T07:30:00Z

    British architects are taking advantage of a recovering Asian economy with Benoy and BDP both set to open new offices in China.

  • View through the colonnade
    Features

    Helen Goodwin - Kingston University

    2010-07-16T07:03:00Z

    The Roding Valley in east London is a diverse landscape that laces through the pilotis of the elevated M11 and plays host to high voltage lines, paddocks, football grounds and derelict munitions depots. Within this heterogeneous terrain Helen Goodwin proposes the addition of a crematorium and columbarium.

  • The auditorium’s Edwardian barrel ceiling will be restored.
    News

    Phoenix set to rise after HMDW refurb

    2010-07-16T07:00:00Z

    Work has begun on HMDW Architects’ restoration of London’s oldest cinema in its centenary year.

  • Jonathan Pickford - University of Plymouth
    Features

    Jonathan Pickford - University of Plymouth

    2010-07-16T06:30:00Z

    Jonathan’s proposal acts to stimulate economic growth, ecological sustainability, and recognises the significance of cultural identity in the regeneration of Riga’s redundant port of Andrejsala.

  • Stefan Rust’s healing retreat uses both conventional and alternative therapy methods such as eco-therapy,  art therapy, music therapy  and biblio-therapy.
    Features

    Stefan Rust – Newcastle University

    2010-07-16T06:10:00Z

    The project is located within the ruins of an abandoned and silver smelting works at Silverberg in the Dalarna region of Sweden. The proposal divides the site into two main areas, Public zone and Private zone, broken by a stream but connected by bridge.

  • Opinion

    Please keep your references to yourself

    2010-07-16T05:00:00Z

    Cladding covered with pictures of knives and forks doesn’t make a building any more ’local’.

  • Colchester Arts Centre’s geometrically complex glazing inclines 15 degrees outwards.
    News

    Viñoly fits state-of-art glazing

    2010-07-16T04:00:00Z

    A 40-tonne glass facade has been installed in the entrance space to Rafael Viñoly’s Colchester Arts Centre, bringing the long-awaited and troubled project a step closer to its completion, expected in September 2011

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    We need to redesign planners

    2010-07-16T02:00:00Z

    Demanding a high standard of professionalism would genuinely raise our quality of life.

  • Opinion

    Respect yourself

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Am I the only person who believes that nobody should be asked to work for nothing?

  • Opinion

    Peer pressure

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster’s tax status could be argued to be everyone’s business, as, up until the deadline for resignation, he was a member of the House of Lords

  • News

    Team sought for Manchester site

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    A competition has been launched to find a design team to create the public realm element of a masterplan for an 8ha regeneration site in central Manchester

  • hugh davies
    Features

    Make sure you’re not storing up trouble

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    As software has developed, over time some applications have changed their file formats and others may have ceased to exist altogether

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    Opinion

    Gove has made the right move

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Though understandably frustrating for the people directly concerned, education secretary Michael Gove has done the right thing in axing the 700 or so Building Schools for the Future projects

  • Opinion

    Good riddance

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The axing of BSF will be hard on some architects but will benefit just about everyone else

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    News

    Harris Partnership’s Hull Travelodge gets on the road

    2010-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Work has begun on Harris Partnership’s new 80-bedroomed Travelodge hotel in Hull