All Building Design articles in 17 April 2009 – Page 2

  • Matthew Houlding, NKB Bearings, Mixed media, 60 x 60 x 35cm, Image courtesy of Ceri Hand Gallery
    Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: April 20 to April 26

    2009-04-20T09:00:00Z

    Matthew Houlding’s exhibiton of impossible architecture opens in Liverpool, the world’s best furniture designers gather in Milan, and Japanese gardens come to the Barbican.

  • Government Powder Magazine No 5, at Purfleet in Essex
    News

    Architecture minister lists 19 historic military buildings

    2009-04-17T14:31:00Z

    Nearly 50 military buildings dating from the Napoleonic War to the first world war have been listed or given added protection by architecture minister Barbara Follett.

  • Amanda Levete Architects’ designs for remodelling Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation headquarters have been submitted for planning
    News

    Wapping in for planning

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    Amanda Levete Architects’ designs for remodelling Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation headquarters have been submitted for planning

  • Moxon Architects has been given the green light by city planners in Preston, Lancashire, to press ahead with plans for a £8 million spiky office building, dubbed the "hedgehog"
    News

    Moxon's hedgehog gets go-ahead

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    Moxon Architects has been given the green light by city planners in Preston, Lancashire, to press ahead with plans for a £8 million spiky office building, dubbed the “hedgehog”

  • Terry Farrell awarded himself a £250,000 pay rise as turnover at the practice rose by 50% to £13.2 million
    News

    Farrell sees profits rocket

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    Pre-tax profits at Terry Farrell & Partners soared fivefold last year, to £2.5 million, according to annual accounts filed at Companies House last week

  • News

    Futures Fair to focus on society

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    The RIBA think-tank Building Futures has announced details of this year’s Futures Fair

  • Edgley Design has completed work on a 4m-wide private house in Islington, north London
    News

    Edgley keeps to straight and narrow

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    Edgley Design has completed work on a 4m-wide private house in Islington, north London

  • News

    Edgbaston design hits sticky wicket

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    Broadway Malyan’s plans for a stadium development at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham suffered a major blow last week, when councillors rejected planning officers’ recommendations and deferred their decision on the scheme

  • Pollock Hammond Partnership has completed a £2 million restoration project on Scotland’s first purpose-built cinema, in Bo’ness
    News

    Early cinema given second showing

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    Pollock Hammond Partnership has completed a £2 million restoration project on Scotland’s first purpose-built cinema, in Bo’ness

  • News

    Burnham urged to review Wilson house delisting

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    Twentieth Century Society claims English Heritage is under-resourced

  • News

    Feilden Clegg Bradley cuts its staff

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    Stirling Prize winner Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has become the latest big-name architect to shed jobs, confirming this week that it had laid off 17 staff

  • News

    Work begins on Weston Grand Pier

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    Work has begun on Angus Meek Architects’ redevelopment of Weston-super-Mare’s fire-ravaged Grand Pier

  • The stadium will be the main venue for Glasgow 2014 Games.
    News

    Commonwealth arena off the starting blocks

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    3DReid and Sports Concepts have won planning permission from Glasgow City Council for the main stadium and velodrome for the 2014 Commonwealth Games

  • News

    Cabe wants Ardley plant rethink

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    Cabe has called on Kent-based Architecture & Planning Solutions to rethink its approach to a new waste and recycling facility in Ardley, Oxfordshire

  • News

    Architects: give us protection of function

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    An overwhelming majority of architects are in favour of a change in the law to protect architects’ function as well as title, new research by BD suggests

  • News

    V&A seeks architect-in-residence

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    The Victoria & Albert Museum has teamed up with the RIBA to offer a UK chartered architect a six-month residency

  • News

    Homes adapted for army injured

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    Housing minister Iain Wright has announced an initiative to provide seriously injured former servicemen and women better access to specially adapted social homes

  • Allies & Morrison’s Olympic press centre in east London.
    News

    Warning over 2012 press centre legacy

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    A host of media companies may abandon plans to move into Allies & Morrison’s £355 million Olympic press and international broadcast centre after the 2012 Games because of “serious concerns” over its design

  • Bob Kerslake
    News

    HCA sets up developer panel to help spend £17bn

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    A new “super panel” of developers is being set up by the Homes & Communities Agency to help it spend hundreds of millions of pounds on building residential and mixed-use schemes in the next three years

  • Fashion statement? Make’s campus building in Nottingham.
    Opinion

    Surface tension

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    Your recent article on Nottingham (Urban Trawl April 3) seeks to judge the city in terms of design. As usual, the emphasis is solely on visual quality and interest