All Building Design articles in 18 February 2005 – Page 3

  • News

    Skyscrapers loom for the South Bank

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Seventy-storey residential block one of three towers to rival City skyline

  • News

    Otto attacks crazy profit-led design

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    A “very proud” Frei Otto accepted his RIBA Gold Medal in London on Wednesday as he spoke of his own fears about the spreading influence of the “crazy architecture of investors”.

  • A
    Features

    Architest

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    This week, architecture prizes

  • News

    Massive difference made to Olympic bid by architects

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    The country’s top architects have “made a massive difference” to London’s chance of winning the 2012 Olympics, a member of the bid panel claimed as the International Olympic Committee visited the capital this week.

  • News

    Salisbury quits Arb board

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    A two-year war of attrition between Arb and its rebel board member, Ian Salisbury, has ended after Salisbury unexpectedly resigned and reached a legal settlement with the regulator

  • Opinion

    No job for anyone

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    I am baffled why women, or men for that matter, would want to increase their representation in architecture. This is not a gender issue: architecture is a lousy business model and with the poorest ratio of creative to production time. Zaha is exceptional and has made untold sacrifices in her ...

  • News

    Charles de Gaulle airport report fails to clear designer

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    An investigation into the collapse of a futuristic terminal at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport which killed four people last May has left open the possibility that architect Paul Andreu could be prosecuted.

  • News

    Rethink after student village fails design test

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Vehement protest forces FaulknerBrowns to redesign Sheffield scheme

  • News

    Dunwich’s double vanishing act

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    A steel sculpture designed to rise from the sea as a permanent monument to the lost city of Dunwich in Suffolk could be downgraded to a temporary structure following heated opposition from locals.

  • News

    All aboard for Kings Cross

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    A great London landmark is set to change forever as John McAslan & Partners’ £275 million plans for transforming King’s Cross station have been given the green light.

  • Review

    Situation abnormal

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Thomas Muirhead enjoys a new book on situationism and discusses how the movement remains pertinent to architects

  • Step 1
    Technical

    How we cracked it 02: Mechtenberg Pedestrian Bridge, Germany

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Mechtenberg Pedestrian Bridge, Gelsenkirchen near Essen, Germany

  • News

    Tory MP brands Prescotts 60,000 houses bokloks

    2005-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Deputy prime minister John Prescott was forced to defend his ambitious housing plans in the House of Commons last week in a heated exchange with Tory shadow housing minister Caroline Spelman.