All Building Design articles in 16 June 2006 – Page 3

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    LAB 06: The prospect of a metrosexual mardi-gras has Darcy reaching for the smelling salts

  • How the City of London skyline would look if the Gherkin , today’s iconic structure, were afforded the same view protection rights as St Paul’s
    Review

    On the horizon

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The Architecture Foundation's Airspace exhibition explores the place of tall buildings in London's future skyline. But, asks Fred Manson, does it ask all the right questions?

  • Opinion

    Harlow, I love you

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Harlow is not such an unlikely place to kick-start a housing revolution. It has a strong history of innovative housing and, indeed, town planning. It has to be acknowledged that not all of it has worked, but also that a great deal of it has, and still does!

  • Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano proved themselves the good guys of architecture this week, stepping in to save the London Architecture Biennale’s opening event following the 11th- hour withdrawal of Norman Foster.
    News

    The good shepherds

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano proved themselves the good guys of architecture this week, stepping in to save the London Architecture Biennale's opening event following the 11th- hour withdrawal of Norman Foster.

  • News

    Six on list for Turner gallery take two

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Danish practice Schmidt Hammer Lassen has been named on the star-studded shortlist to design the Turner Contemporary at Margate, four months after Spence and Snøhetta's scheme for the art gallery was scrapped for being vastly over-budget.

  • Opinion

    Good, but not first

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    I was pleased to see that BD is continuing its interest in the international humanitarian agenda (News June 2).

  • Features

    The finishing line

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    We thought it would be impossible. We were almost sure we would be late. We never dreamed we would actually complete it. Well, it wasn't impossible and it is completed. We can now safely say that pre-fabrication of our summer pavilion is over and done with.

  • Review

    Father figure

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    On the eve of a Lighthouse exhibition of Marcel Breuer's work, former employee Bob Gatje reflects on his time working with the modernist master

  • Opinion

    Mediocrity is just not good enough

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    It seems churlish, I know, in this week of celebrating all things worthy - architecture, bikes and saving the planet - to come across all maudlin, but I am a Manc after all. And heaven knows, I'm miserable now.

  • Zoe Zenghelis
    Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    This week: Zoe Zenghelis

  • Opinion

    Corrections

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Gareth Pearce has never worked for Rem Koolhaas or his practice OMA, as our report "Olympic Copyright Claim", (News May 19), stated.

  • Phaidon’s tri-volume Design Classics is a highly covetable treasure trove of images and info about 999 notable designs.
    Review

    Classical education

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Phaidon's tri-volume Design Classics is a highly covetable treasure trove of images and info about 999 notable designs.

  • The Royal Shakespeare Company’s plan to create “the best theatre for Shakespeare in the world” at Stratford-upon-Avon has moved a step closer as the design for the new theatre is unveiled.
    News

    Scene change

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Shakespeare Company's plan to create "the best theatre for Shakespeare in the world" at Stratford-upon-Avon has moved a step closer as the design for the new theatre is unveiled.

  • News

    Sheffield Civic Trust will champion modern design

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The newly formed Sheffield Civic Trust has pledged to fight for good contemporary design in the city. Launched on Monday, the trust says it does not want to act solely as a conservation body.

  • Crystal Palace:  football centre plans.
    News

    LDA U-turn could save Crystal Palace centre

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The country's first purpose-built sports centre could be saved from demolition following a surprise U-turn from the London Development Agency.

  • News

    Green light likely for Cameron's turbine

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Conservative leader David Cameron is set to get the green light to install a wind turbine on the roof of his home in Kensington & Chelsea, one of the UK's most conservationist boroughs.

  • Harlow bus station
    News

    Cabe plans hitlist for ‘crap' design

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Cabe is asking the public to nominate buildings and places which should be bulldozed, amid rising frustration inside the watchdog at the "crap" standard of development in the UK.

  • A new exhibition, Future City: Experiment in Architecture and Utopia in Architecture 1956-2006, opens at the Barbican Art Gallery in London this week.
    News

    Bright future

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    A new exhibition, Future City: Experiment in Architecture and Utopia in Architecture 1956-2006, opens at the Barbican Art Gallery in London this week.

  • Architect and fireplace-designer turned Mystery Jet Henry Harrison, centre, with his son and the rest of the band.
    Features

    Will it be bricks or licks?

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    There's many a closet rocker within the world of architecture. But what happens when you have to choose between the two? As a prelude to BD and AF's Architecture Rocks party, Jonathan Woolf looks back on his early hopes of stardom, while Henry Harrison of the Mystery Jets looks forward ...

  • This dramatic conversion of a 1940s tea and coffee factory in south-east London has just won planning.
    News

    Fresh brew

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    This dramatic conversion of a 1940s tea and coffee factory in south-east London has just won planning.