All Building Design articles in 16 September 2005 – Page 2

  • News

    Holyrood on RIAS shortlist

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish Parliament building has been shortlisted for Scotland’s top architecture prize, the RIAS Andrew Doolan award.

  • Marks Barfield’s 50m-long bridge at the new Wembley Stadium is starting to take shape
    News

    Hit and miss

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Marks Barfield’s 50m-long bridge at the new Wembley Stadium is starting to take shape. The four distinctive steel arches, weighing a total of 420 tonnes, were craned into place this week.

  • Partners Keith Bradley (left) and Peter Clegg.
    News

    Survivors’ guilt

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Hundreds celebrated the life of Richard Feilden this week. BD asks his partners how they are coping without him

  • Opinion

    Got to be Kidman

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Still with Gehry.

  • Opinion

    Size is everything

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    John Barrow of HOK Sport is currently working on the new Wembley Stadium, the Arsenal Emirates football stadium and the new roof cover for Centre Court at Wimbledon.

  • News

    Prescott to spread green EU message

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    John Prescott plans to use Britain’s presidency of the European Union to franchise his sustainable communities plan across the continent.

  • News

    Watered-down energy measures disappoint

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    The government has backed down on a key part of the long-awaited legislation to cut energy emissions from buildings.

  • Opinion

    Italy clips the wings of UK jet-set crew

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Are we seeing the first signs of a concerted rebellion against the trend of “kerosene architecture”?

  • Coventry Cathedral: where architecture and music meet in perfect harmony.
    Review

    Choral music and me

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    As a choral singer, one experience that remains with me strongly was singing the Verdi Requiem with the Cambridge University Music Society under David Willcocks.

  • News

    Chipperfield’s stagecraft

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield Architects has won an international competition to design a new theatre in the southern Spanish town of Estepona, Malaga.

  • Opinion

    Mole in the camp

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Politics reared its ugly head again when Brighton & Hove council chief executive Alan McCarthy told those assembled that all councillors had been banned from the launch event to avoid conflicts of interest on the planning decision.

  • News

    Hurricane destroys landmark buildings

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Landmark 19th-century buildings in Biloxi, Mississippi, have been lost in the winds of Hurricane Katrina.

  • News

    Group calls for boycott of design show

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    100% Design linked with arms fair

  • News

    Rogers in bid to halt white flight

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    A revamp of London’s public spaces is to be used in the fight against white flight — where middle class white people leave cities.

  • News

    Black designers could ‘help beat terror’

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    A member of the Architects’ Registration Board has linked the lack of black and minority ethnic architects with the recent terror attacks on London.

  • Opinion

    Teach buildings, not Bauhaus

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    As you read this, tutors in architecture schools across the country will be honing their unit programmes in preparation for the new academic year.

  • i CCTV, China
    Features

    Architest

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    This week: Rem Koolhaas

  • Flooding continued this week in New Orleans as shown in this picture taken on Tuesday.
    News

    New Orleans architects pledge to rebuild city

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    New Orleans’s exiled architects have pledged to return and help rebuild their city.

  • News

    Mature approach

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Architects must wake up to the ageing workforce and rethink their youth-friendly office designs

  • News

    East Anglia

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Norwich city Heritage Open Day in Norwich opened a number of architectural gems to the public last week. Older buildings included the Strangers’ Club, the 14th-century Curat’s House, the medieval private home Queen of Hungary, and St Clements Church, with newer buildings including Grimshaw’s BBC headquarters at the Forum in ...