All Building Design articles in 17 July 2009 – Page 3

  • News

    Parks Agency draws up plan for Highgate cemetery

    2009-07-17T00:35:00Z

    A rescue plan for Britain’s most famous graveyard will be published in September

  • News

    Moxon plans paths and footbridges for Taunton site

    2009-07-17T00:30:00Z

    Moxon Architects has applied for planning permission for a £2 million project to create a series of footbridges and pathways for Goodlands Gardens in the centre of Taunton, Somerset

  • Hammer has proposed a new scheme for restoring the Commonwealth Institute
    News

    Rival scheme for Commonwealth Institute proposed

    2009-07-17T00:28:00Z

    Radical proposals to redevelop the Commonwealth Institute by OMA and West 8 are to be directly challenged by a rival scheme prepared by architects Brian Avery and Brian Waters

  • News

    Dance fever in Ipswich

    2009-07-17T00:25:00Z

    This is the first image of the interior of John Lyall Architects’ international dance studios, which opens in October

  • The 323ha scheme is on hold.
    News

    Barnet Council halts £4bn Allies & Morrison masterplan

    2009-07-17T00:23:00Z

    Local opposition grows to Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration

  • News

    Reaching for the stars

    2009-07-17T00:21:00Z

    Van Heyningen & Haward Architects is celebrating the opening of the £9 million Dennis Sciama Building for the University of Portsmouth, home to its Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation

  • Opinion

    Our chance to save the world

    2009-07-17T00:16:00Z

    The RIBA must seize the climate change initiative to ensure architects are heroes not villains

  • Dixon Jones’ Saïd Business School: was set to complete in 2010.
    News

    Dixon Jones’ Oxford plans stall as client queries cost

    2009-07-17T00:15:00Z

    Delay to £25 million Saïd Business School extension adds to university’s expansion woes

  • News

    This week's ups and downs

    2009-07-17T00:10:00Z

    Hot and not

  • Model showing the marble facade of Tony Fretton Architects’ administrative centre for Deinze in north-west Belgium.
    Building Study

    Political transparency helps Fretton to scoop Belgian centre

    2009-07-17T00:06:00Z

    Tony Fretton Architects has won a competition to build a new €11.75 million (£10 million) administrative centre in the town of Deinze, Belgium

  • New life: Astley Castle.
    News

    Witherford Watson Mann to renew Astley Castle

    2009-07-17T00:03:00Z

    The Heritage Lottery Fund has confirmed it will grant £1.47 million to a £2.2 million project by Witherford Watson Mann to build a contemporary home in the ruins of Astley Castle in Warwickshire

  • Opinion

    Stand by RSHP

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Two months ago, Sunand Prasad wrote to every RIBA member imploring them not to succumb to the pressure of recession by undercutting the fees and interests of fellow professionals

  • Opinion

    Time for a review

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    The fire at Lakanal House in Camberwell is shocking. As someone involved in work to 1960s housing over 20 years, I would point out that while there have been numerous fires in tower blocks since the 1960s, most have been confined to a single flat, with perhaps minor damage to ...

  • Features

    Marriage material?

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Irena Bauman tackles your ethical dilemmas

  • Opinion

    Look outside: Pearson to landscape RIBA

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Interesting to see that the RIBA enlisted the services of TV landscape gardener Dan Pearson — rather than one of its own members — to revamp its two outside terraces, which are to be transformed into “simple, sustainable, architectural garden terraces”, according to a planning application lodged with Westminster Council

  • Opinion

    Visual impact

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    RE: Your story “RIBA’s choice of Stirling sponsor ‘undermines UK firms’”, News July 10

  • Features

    How can I reduce my insurance premiums?

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Following a claim against my PI Insurance, my premiums have gone through the roof. What can I do to convince my Insurers I’m not “high risk”?

  • Gary Cooper as Howard Roark.
    Opinion

    Fountain of truth

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Who can say they are not surprised to see architects vying for the Chelsea Barracks scheme?

  • Opinion

    Tower failures

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    The Camberwell fire (News July 10) raises two main points: first, the omission of the 900mm-high vertical and 600mm-wide fire breaks outlined in the London Building bylaws seems a major contribution

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    The green debate warms up

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Green initiatives are all very well but UK architects need to ask why they design some of the least energy-efficient buildings in Europe