All Building Design articles in 18 March 2011 – Page 2
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ReviewDASH: The Luxury City Apartment
In these interesting economic times, many practitioners might be forgiven for thin-king that the only sector of the building industry unaffected by the doldrums is that of the platinum-plated apartment block or marble-clad town house.
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NewsArchitects invited to design Joan Littlewood memorial in Stratford
Newham Council has launched a competition to create a memorial to the “mother of modern theatre” Joan Littlewood.The memorial will stand outside the Theatre Royal Stratford East and is part of the £14 million improvement works to the east London area’s public realm, alongside Studio Egret West’s sculpture The Shoal.Judges, ...
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NewsParadise Circus scheme forces Birmingham music school move
The Birmingham Conservatoire has vowed it will move to a new home after Glenn Howell’s £500 million Paradise Circus scheme cleared its final hurdle.The conservatoire’s current home at Paradise Place sits on the proposed site of the scheme for developer Argent. Earlier this month the government granted John Madin’s Birmingham ...
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NewsDanish bathing triumph for JDS Architects
Belgian practice JDS Architects has won first prize in a competition to design Faaborg Harbour Bath in the south of Fyn, Denmark.
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NewsDecision imminent on Stephen Holl’s Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow City Council’s planning committee is expected to approve Stephen Holl Architects’ proposals for the new Glasgow School of Art building when it meets tomorrow (Tuesday) .The £50 million scheme, designed with local practice JM Architects, is for a five-storey building opposite Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s building for the school.A report ...
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MultimediaWin a copy of How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster?
Three DVDs of Norman Foster documentary up for grabs - plus exclusive clip from the film
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NewsPlasticine model of future city needs new home
A model depicting how a city may look in the future, made entirely of plasticine, needs a new home because its creator no longer has room for it.
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NewsBDP launches sponsored cycle ride in memory of Jo Yeates
BDP has launched “Cycle for Jo”, a charity cycle ride, where employees from BDP studios all over the world will ride in relay teams between studio locations.The ride, which starts on May 6 at BDP’s London office, has been organised in memory of murdered landscape architect Joanna Yeates, who worked ...
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NewsGrimshaw power plant 'exemplary' says Cabe
Design watchdog praises Suffolk waste-to-energy facility proposal
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ReviewCultural Guide: March 21- 27
You’ll certainly need to wash your hands this week after this our cultural highlights include a brief history of dirt and a trip to a bar with a difference
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NewsCabe could become 'DeCabe'
New name emerges at New London Architecture seminar on design review
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NewsCabe slams Chapman Taylor's Liverpool Waters masterplan
Chapman Taylor’s proposed £5.5 billion regeneration of the Liverpool Docks has been criticised by Cabe for being “generic” and “not organised or expressed in a meaningful way”.In its report the quango said 1.3 million sq m project, known as Liverpool Waters, “does not provide confidence that a high quality scheme ...
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NewsArchitect sought to restore House Mill in east London
The River Lea Tidal Mill Trust is seeking an architect to work on the restoration and development of its grade I listed House Mill in east London.The £2.65 million project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, will see the restoration of the mill, installing renewable energy sources and providing education ...
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NewsWoods Bagot unveils Perth airport scheme
Woods Bagot has revealed its expansion plans for Perth Airport’s international terminal.
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NewsGreen light for 11.04 Architects' Camden war memorial
11.04 Architects has received planning permission for a memorial dedicated to the British prisoners of war who died in the Far East, building the Burma railway for Japanese forces.The plaque, made of an inscribed granite slab supported on a facsimile railway track, was commissioned by local newspaper the Camden New ...
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AnalysisArchitects seek shelter in London
While the housing market is showing signs of revival in the capital, elsewhere it remains stagnant with a constrained mortgage market and fears over localism two of the main inhibitors
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NewsWorking abroad: Brisac Gonzalez
Enthusiasm is the hallmark of this firm’s extensive overseas portfolio
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ReviewModels for the future
This book could offer some ideas for future affor-dable housing development in hard financial times.