All Building Design articles in 16 March 2007 – Page 3

  • The $9 billion Dubai Festival City development, led by HOK. Bentley says its ProjectWise collaboration software will save $32 million.
    Features

    Software to manage projects from the centre or the edge

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    In January’s eArchitect, Bentley’s Joe Croser forecast this year would be one of collaboration. This month he elaborates — and his arch rival, Autodesk’s Pete Baxter, responds.

  • News

    Celebrating timber construction

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    This year’s Wood Awards have opened for the submission of entries.

  • News

    Canterbury theatre goes to Williams

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Keith Williams Architects has beaten John McAslan, Levitt Bernstein, RHWL and Burrell Foley Fischer to redesign Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre.

  • The garden, with the willow tree to the right.
    Technical

    The tree stays in the building

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The challenge: To maximise living space without destroying a mature willow treeThe solution A minimum dig to erect a deck with a lightweight pavilion structure floated above itArchitect M3 ArchitectsSite Pinner, MiddlesexProject type ResidentialWritten by Ken Hutt1 The briefOur client, a senior partner in a major QS practice and his ...

  • Opinion

    Would a halt to new building help tackle climate change?

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Phil Clark speaks out for a moratorium, while Neven Sidor condemns such a blunt instrument

  • G-RIBA: Murphy’s aircraft.
    Opinion

    Boots

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    This week from Concrete Boots

  • News

    UK’s biggest housing scheme

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The first phase of a £1.2 billion development in Leeds by Edaw has been submitted for planning permission.

  • News

    What's been hot at this year's Mipim

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    A new City office scheme by FOA, super-rich Russians on a shopping spree and Manchester's miniature marvels - some of the highlights of this year's property fair

  • Opinion

    Back to the future

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    We know contemporary architecture in the current climate has to go way OTT to gain critical notice, but surely the placed entries for the Czech library competition (News March 9) have got to be taking the piss.

  • Features

    Ask us a question

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Should we outsource work to Malaysia?

  • Features

    Thatcher shows a rare interest in arts

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Date January 1984. Location London. Architect Alsop Finch & LyallPrime minister Margaret Thatcher and new RIBA president Michael Manser seem to be enjoying themselves at the president’s inaugural reception. The third person in the photo is Will Alsop who is explaining his scheme for Riverside Studios at Hammersmith, where ...

  • Features

    Ash Sakula architects ride it out

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    ‘We have an informal cycling club’

  • News

    Architects to join race probe

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The Commission for Racial Equality is calling on architects and urban designers to give evidence as part of a new investigation into regeneration and race equality.

  • News

    Tories vow to axe Arb

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    RIBA welcomes pledge, but regulator’s chief executive warns that consumers would suffer

  • Zoë Blackler
    Opinion

    Can the RIBA replace Arb?

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The Tory party says it would abolish Arb if elected. While abolition would be welcomed by many in the profession, what is the best way to replace Arb’s functions?

  • Opinion

    Arb is highly cost-effective

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Following your publication last week of letters from a number of your readers (all regular critics of Arb) which followed your piece on “Arb’s legal battle” I feel I should offer some comment.

  • Thinking outside the box: The council welcomes the Bokloks.
    News

    Gateshead approves Ikea flat-pack homes

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Ikea’s first foray into the UK housing market, a development of affordable flat-pack homes in Gateshead, has been granted planning permission.

  • The Alsop-designed exterior of The Public has been completed since the end of 2005.
    News

    Alsop fears for The Public’s future

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    West Bromwich arts centre is in danger of being a ‘big nothing’, says architect

  • The regenerated area should encourage workers to live in the city
    News

    Flacq scheme aims to entice residents back to Leicester city

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    This new riverside quarter in Leicester by Flacq Architects has won outline planning permission.

  • News

    Green theme aims to save Architecture Week

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    This year’s make-or-break Architecture Week will have the theme How Green is Our Space, focusing on sustainability and inspiring the public to think creatively about the spaces around them.