All Building Design articles in 17 October 2008 – Page 3

  • Features

    Post-war trio embodies future hopes

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Rogers, Foster and Stirling were captured in this photo at the RA’s biggest postwar architecture show in 1986

  • Phil Clark
    Technical

    Will the future be Dubai or Masdar?

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Foster’s Masdar design team rocked up at the Cityscape conference last week in Dubai — and was really impressive

  • Opinion

    Doom street

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    “Pot calling the kettle black” is the phrase that springs to mind when Iain Tuckett, group director of Coin Street Community Builders, levels criticism at the willingness of English Heritage to consider legal action over Doon Street (News October 3) and the expense this necessarily involves.

  • Reykjavik opera house is one of the threatened schemes.
    News

    Iceland’s credit crisis hits landmark projects

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Landmark architecture projects in Iceland are under serious threat due to the collapse of the country’s three largest banks.

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s First Look mistakenly referred to RJ Davies as an architect.

  • Opponents say the 3D Reid scheme will “kill the old town”.
    News

    Controversial Lancaster scheme wins planning

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Heritage groups have failed in an attempt to stop a £150 million development in Lancaster by 3D Reid, which won outline planning permission this week despite massive opposition from campaigners including architect and TV presenter Ptolemy Dean.

  • Many firms are having to lay off staff as workloads drop.
    News

    Industry faces job cuts and closures

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Practices caught unawares by sudden impact of banking crisis

  • Opinion

    Make it clear

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    I was disturbed to read about another supposed eco-house (News October 3) which seems to disregard environmental considerations with a totally clear four-storey glazed facade.

  • News

    Plug pulled on Six Cities festival

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish government has pulled all future funding for the Six Cities Design Festival, effectively cancelling the event.

  • The dance centre will accommodate seven studios.
    News

    Dance centre gets go-ahead in Leeds

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    A £12 million dance centre in Leeds by Strategic Design Alliance, a partnership of Jacobs Architecture and Leeds City Council’s in-house architects, has been granted planning.

  • Features

    Helpdesk: Don’t let your computer catch a malware malady, says Hugh Davies

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    For most users, the idea of your computer becoming infected with a malicious program invites the prospect of falling into the chasm of non-comprehension that lies at the edge of the our understanding of how computers actually work.

  • News

    Gove canes late schools schedule

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Shadow schools secretary Michael Gove said the government’s Building Schools for the Future programme was “woefully behind schedule”.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    A bright side to dark times

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Rather than give in to the economic gloom, architects can shape up for the future

  • Bourne Hill project
    News

    Work starts on Bourne Hill project

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Work has begun on Stanton Williams’ £13 million redevelopment of the 18th century Bourne Hill building for Salisbury District Council.

  • Opinion

    What now – the bunker or the bike?

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Never mind weeping and wailing — how are you going to get through the meltdown?

  • Opinion

    Ring my bell

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid has wisely stopped turning up to the Stirling Prize having lost out twice, but had a presence of sorts on Saturday night when she rang her friend and judge Eva Jiricna to find out if it was third time lucky.

  • Serra’s Open Ended: you have to get inside these pieces to know them.
    Review

    Into the belly of Serra’s beasts

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    As the Gagosian Gallery in London holds a new show of work by Richard Serra, architect David Kohn talks to the artist about the development of his ideas and the role of architecture

  • Opinion

    Standard bearer

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    I qualified in 1956 and ever since I can remember, architects have been in despair over the standards of design of our housing stock.

  • Features

    The credit crunch is hitting me with cancelled jobs and bad debts

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Advice on handling the credit crunch and getting paid

  • Opinion

    Back to honesty

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Now we all know that we’ve been living a dream as opposed to living the dream since the turn of the century, maybe it’s an opportune time for architecture to exorcise its own ghosts of the recent past?