All Building Design articles in 18 March 2005 – Page 3

  • News

    Setback for Hull’s star attraction

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Client walks away from first project

  • Features

    Architest

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    This week: Architecture and the Church

  • News

    New architecture centre showcases London model

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    London is to get a new architecture centre boasting a huge model of the capital.

  • News

    Architects out of step with public

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Architects and planners are not giving the public what they want, according to a major survey of attitudes towards housing design.

  • News

    The appliance of science

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    This woman is standing behind a concrete wall almost one foot thick, yet you can still see her. It is just one of the architectural innovations sparked by science featured in our 12-page special to coincide with National Science Week, which climaxes this weekend. BD writers report on how architecture ...

  • News

    Alsop station to be value engineered

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    John McAslan & Partners and retail architect Chapman Taylor are to value engineer Will Alsop’s designs for a £350 million revamp of Birmingham New Street station.

  • Opinion

    Ethics is a matter for all consciences

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Sheila Mullon (Letters March 11) makes the ridiculous assumption that ethics are of no concern to the RIBA, based on my reluctance to be drawn on some unspecific examples. The ethics of practice should be taken extremely seriously. We have our own long-established code of conduct and have contributed to ...

  • Cobalt Business Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, by RyderHKS. Image generated in Revit 7.
    Features

    Roadtest: Revit finally comes of age

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Autodesk’s 3D modelling program Revit is now good enough to be taken seriously by architects, says Clive Hunt of RyderHKS

  • Opinion

    Science getting lost in aesthetics focus

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    In our society scientific endeavour is becoming dangerously unfashionable. University departments are being closed and fewer students are choosing science-based subjects at school. We are in an age of ambiguity where expressing ideas, however easily reached, is more saleable than the hard graft involved in acquiring knowledge and establishing certainties.

  • News

    Sheppard, BDs first editor, dies at 78

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    The founding editor of Building Design Clem Shepherd has died aged 78.

  • News

    Brown’s £9.4bn school sweetener

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    Massive school building project unveiled in Budget

  • News

    Hospital closes after £2m refurb

    2005-03-18T00:00:00Z

    A London hospital has closed all its wards and its in-patient services just a year after a major £2 million refurbishment designed by Staffordshire practice The French Thorpe Consultancy.