All Building Design articles in 18 May 2007 – Page 2
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Opinion
Peak practice
How quickly people forget! When I got my first job 35 years ago with Leonard Manasseh, a superb aerial perspective of his proposal for Snowdon’s summit (News May 4) sat in his foyer in Rathbone Street.
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NewsTorquay site is pathfinder
Exeter-based Kensington Taylor Architects has won planning permission for this £24 million community college in Torquay. The scheme is a One School Pathfinder, funded by Building Schools for the Future, to allow Torbay Council a pilot project for its future approach to BSF.
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NewsMoscow replicas mock Russia’s past, says Save
Moscow’s architectural heritage is under an “immediate, extensive and overwhelming” threat, a report published this week warns.
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OpinionLeft for Wright
Among the former EH staff who contacted BD after last week’s story on the quango’s diminishing pool of architects, one who has definitely landed on his feet is former conservation director John Fidler, who moved last year to Los Angeles, where his wife is associate director of the Getty Conservation ...
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News
Williams up for Norwegian jazz
Keith Williams Architects has been short-listed to design a jazz house and theatre in Molde, Norway, home of the country’s biggest annual international jazz festival.
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Opinion
It’s a mad world
Your headline (News May 4) regarding housing competitions could equally apply to the whole competition process. This is, generally, fairness gone bonkers.
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NewsHowells wins RIBA Stoke project
Landscaping proposals by Glenn Howells Architects, including kiln-like pavilions (pictured) and shared space street design, have won an RIBA competition as part of the £20 million regeneration of Stoke-on-Trent.
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News
Work to stabilise Silbury Hill starts
Work has begun to stabilise the 4,400-year old Silbury Hill in Wiltshire.
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Opinion
Hard times
It seems that Dickensian employment practices are alive and well in architects’ offices (Practice May 4).
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Building StudyHackney’s rose- tinted spectacle
The brief for east London practice Sall, Cullinan & Buck was to embody the changes afoot at a local primary school using capital works funding of £1 million. Ellis Woodman takes a look at the result
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Opinion
Good grief
The Royal College of Art’s Don’t Panic exhibition, which opens at the Architecture Foundation’s Yard Gallery on June 1, sounds like a barrel of laughs.
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FeaturesGet round growing pains
When Jefferson Sheard Architects needed to automate some basic administration tasks, it chose Rapport 3 from Cubic Interactive. Installed over a year ago, it has expanded with the firm.
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Opinion
Get a grip, RIBA
You hit the nail fairly and squarely on the head (Leader May 11) in asserting that the RIBA has more pressing matters to beat itself up about than registering the political affiliations of council and board members.
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TechnicalSustainable Games are the new Klondike
The rush for a green Olympics is important, but requires teamwork
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ReviewMaking freedom a reality
Two RIBA shows expose the hope and difficulties facing South Africa.
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News
Locals forum for legacy views
The Olympic Delivery Authority is to establish an Olympic Park regeneration steering group to promote local people’s involvement in planning the effective legacy uses of the Olympic Park.
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FeaturesHow green is your footprint?
After BD exposed the large amount of air travel by some of the UK’s biggest practices, Karen Glaser looks at how other architects are cutting their carbon emissions
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TechnicalHow to follow the movement
The challenge To detail a seven-storey timber frame apartment block to allow for movement