All Building Design articles in 17 February 2006 – Page 2

  • News

    Heritage can make you money, developers told

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    English Heritage reached out to developers this week with a guide for developing projects in the historic environment.

  • Le Thoronet: amazing spaces.
    Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Silvia Ullmayer

  • News

    ODPM delays courses on green regulations

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    The ODPM has postponed vital training sessions that were supposed to prepare the construction industry for the introduction of tough new environmental laws.

  • News

    Councils' ‘illegal tactics'

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    London mayor Ken Livingstone has accused local councillors of using illegal tactics to defend their seats by refusing planning for major new housing developments which could bring in opposition voters.

  • News

    Olympic contract to tender

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    The "next big building block for the delivery of the Olympic Park" will go out to tender within a week. The original tender was halted by Olympic boss David Higgins at the start of the year.

  • Dannatt with paintings by Le Corbusier and Patrick Heron — two of the art works he has acquired over the past 60 years.
    Review

    Lifelong collections

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Catherine Croft previews an exhibition of Trevor Dannatt's art collection and talks to two other architects with a passion for art

  • Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture has unveiled these images of proposals for Museum Plaza in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
    News

    Skyscraper city

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture has unveiled these images of proposals for Museum Plaza in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

  • News

    No winner chosen for Milton Keynes

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Europan entries too ‘wacky'

  • News

    Greenlight for Bracknell plan

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    The Richard Rogers Partnership has finally won outline planning permission for the ambitious £750 million regeneration of Bracknell town centre.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Scouting through old issues of BD this week, Boots stumbled upon a fascinating piece written by none other than Norman Foster in 1974.

  • Toyo Ito
    News

    The lightness of being Ito

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    RIBA Gold Medal winner Toyo Ito is architecture's impossible dreamer who takes every project in a new direction.

  • News

    Race to design BBC northern HQ hots up

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Hamilton Associates and Benoy have been brought in to work on designs for the two sites vying to be the BBC's new northern HQ.

  • Public spaces will be designed with white plastered and rendered surfaces and the odd splash of colour
    News

    Bakery conversion takes the cake

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    This new Urban Splash development converting the grade l listed Mills Bakery building at the Royal William Yard in Plymouth has been unveiled by Gillespie Yunnie Architects.

  • News

    Archway residents launch own contest

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Residents of Archway, north London, have launched a design competition for ideas for the regeneration of their area to rival plans being drawn up by BDP.

  • D
    Features

    Architest

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    This week: alcohol

  • News

    London Eye architects sell stake to Tussauds

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    The architects and founders of the London Eye have sold their stake in the successful tourist attraction for a seven-figure sum.

  • Opinion

    Soapbox: Making sure Arb is not ‘judge and jury'

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    The National Consumer Council has raised concerns and criticism about the RIBA's proposals to reform the Arb. It is worried we are failing to sufficiently take into account protection of the consumer in our plans.

  • News

    Arb takes a bite out of sharkitects

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Members of the Arb's board have called for a crackdown on "sharkitects" who work for free to win jobs.

  • News

    RIBA is accused of ignoring consumers

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    The National Consumer Council has accused the RIBA of "focusing on the interests of the profession", and making "little or no attempt to consider the consumer interest" in its attempt to curb the power of the Arb.

  • An academy school designed by Capita Percy Thomas was officially opened by prime minister Tony Blair last week.
    News

    Academy school opens

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    An academy school designed by Capita Percy Thomas was officially opened by prime minister Tony Blair last week.