All Building Design articles in 18 June 2010 – Page 3

  • Kisho Kurokawa makes a strong impression on BD’s reporter.
    Features

    Metabolist Napoleon

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Kisho Kurokawa makes a strong impression on BD’s reporter.

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    Features

    Me & my IT: Luke Tozer

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Pitman Tozer director on managing the practice’s online portfolio and software updates.

  • Opinion

    Learning process

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    The question of whether money has been wasted on school design work (Debate June 11) is not so clear cut. The Building Schools for the Future process has its pros and its cons.

  • Opinion

    A head of steam

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Owen Hatherley is right to bemoan the basic, utilitarian character of the new structures on the revived East London Line (Works June 11), but, although he tells us he lives in south-east London, he writes with all the myopia of the north Londoner who thinks that civilisation only exists where ...

  • Hull History Museum by Pringle Richards Sharratt
    News

    Good wood shortlist

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    A primary school, a vaulted ceiling for a cathedral and high-end penthouses are among 27 shortlisted projects in this year’s Wood Awards.

  • Opinion

    Golden hello

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    With impeccable timing, the London Development Agency this week advertised four new jobs just as mayor Boris Johnson was announcing his plans to scrap the organisation.

  • Opinion

    Let’s focus on improvement

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    As the Treasury anticipates efficiency measures which will inevitably impact on capital expenditure in construction, it may like to have a mind to the effect Building Schools for the Future (Debate June 11) has had on maintenance regimes within the secondary school sector.

  • Opinion

    Garden of Edam

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Terry Brown’s comment (Letters June 11) on my article about Dutch-style intensive farming (Opinion June 4) misunderstands my point, which is that if we insist on cheap food and start to grow more of it in Britain, our countryside could become a hi-tech dystopia similar to that of the Netherlands.

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    Features

    This week's ups & downs

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Hot or Not

  • McHugh Stoppard Architecture has won planning permission to convert a former primary school in Walton, Liverpool
    News

    Divine inspiration

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    McHugh Stoppard Architecture has won planning permission to convert a former primary school in Walton, Liverpool, into for a community and business centre

  • Space saver: SUSD’s Highwood Court housing in Harlesden.
    Opinion

    Is the government right to relax density targets?

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Liz Peace, it should be a local decision; but Alex Ely says good design is the key

  • Frances Castle
    Features

    Can I stop a contractor promoting my design as his own work?

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    How can I prevent a contractor promoting my design as his own work and using my own photographs, without any recognition of the architects?

  • The Neues Museum
    News

    Chipperfield takes heritage prize

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield Architects’ Neues Museum has been awarded the Grand Prix of the European Heritage Awards 2010.

  • News

    Hawkins Brown for Westminster

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Hawkins Brown is to masterplan the redevelopment of Westminster University’s campus in north-west London.

  • Olympic park masterplan
    News

    Great British garden plan for Olympic park

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    LDA Design and Hargreaves Associates have unveiled plans for a classic British garden – complete with sandpit and frog pondin the heart of the Olympic Park.

  • News

    Brady comes out strongly in Q&A for presidency

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA could be run by two women in succession after Angela Brady cemented her position as the frontrunner in the race to succeed Ruth Reed

  • News

    Rundell joins Hirst in gallery bid

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Rundell Associates is working with artist Damien Hirst on a bid for a gallery to be built in Hyde Park.

  • IPad: intuitive but limited.
    Features

    IPad has the right touch for architects

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Could new iPad applications and software become valuable tools for practices?

  • Opinion

    Hidden agenda

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    RIBA chief executive Harry Rich (Letters June 4) attempts to refute the reasons why Azar Djamali says she resigned as chairman at the start of the London Regional Council meeting on April 29. He says this meeting was “called and entirely administered properly”.

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    We need to talk about housing

    2010-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Wherever there are no jobs and a barren stretch of sodden land to be flogged off cheaply, horrid homes sprout like random weeds.