All Building Design articles in 19 May 2006 – Page 2
-
News
Deserting Koolhaas partner denies mutiny
The principal of Rem Koolhaas's New York office, who left the Office of Metropolitan Architecture on Monday taking all the office's 35 staff with him, has denied suggestions that he has fallen out with his former boss.Joshua Prince-Ramus, formerly the New York partner of Koolhaas's OMA network, has gone into ...
-
News
Murray defends plans for Edinburgh old town
The architect of Edinburgh's £180 million old town redevelopment, Allan Murray, has blasted critics of the scheme for their lack of engagement.
-
-
Opinion
Flawed criteria
I read the article informing us of the Cambridge Architecture School's prowess with a cynical slant (News May 5).
-
OpinionStop lawyer's job creation scheme
I am delighted that both the RIBA and BD have taken up the cudgels on what is a transparent lawyer job creation scheme - the increasingly pernicious influence on clients by lawyers, who waste everyone's time and money on bespoke forms of agreement and special warranties (News May 12).
-
Opinion
Correction
Patrick Bellew's practice Atelier Ten is an environmental engineer not a structural engineer as stated (Soapbox May 12).
-
ReviewDeconstructing construction
Sergison Bates' exhibition and book get under the skin of the young practice
-
News
Cooper to launch competition to design low-carbon homes
The Design for Manufacture challenge to create £60,000 homes has moved into a second phase, with housing minister Yvette Cooper calling on the construction industry to design and deliver low-carbon, or carbon neutral affordable homes.
-
NewsCold mountain
Tokyo-based architect Benjamin Warner's latest project, the Iceberg, is now complete. The 5,173sq m building, near the famous Omote-Sando crossing in the Shibuya-ku district of Tokyo, includes restaurants, retail outlets, and a fitness centre.
-
News
Olympic copyright claim
Lone architect Stephen Lawrence says designs for Olympic Park were based on his uncredited ideas
-
Building StudyDes Moines Library by David Chipperfield
Ellis Woodman explores the enigmatic exteriors and lucid interiors of Chipperfield’s Des Moines Library
-
News
PFI buildings ‘exceptional', says new health minister
Newly appointed health minister Andy Burnham gave a robust defence of PFI this week, saying the system had produced some "exceptional" hospital buildings.
-
NewsFour firms unveiled for British pavilion
The British Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale will showcase an impressive quartet of architects working in the city of Sheffield.
-
NewsInternational brigade
Undeterred by the British weather, foreign architects are filling London offices as never before. As a BD survey uncovers the true extent of this influx, architects from six continents tell their stories. Interviews by Zoë Blackler. Photograph by Ed Tyler
-
-
News
Bonanza of work in Wales
Architects BDP, Nightingale Associates, Aedas, Powell Dobson, HLM and Boyce Rees are in line for a bonanza of health work in Wales after making it onto a £1.7 billion framework agreement being drawn up by Welsh Health Estates.
-
News
Eight companies picked to work on BBC projects
The BBC has named the eight companies that will supply, design and manage a range of small to medium construction projects across the UK.
-
Opinion
Basic lack of trust
If you're designing churches or private houses maybe the new RIBA Standard Form of Agreement will catch on, but investors and developers don't trust each other let alone their architect.
-
Opinion
Bald brick boxes
I am astonished at Alain de Botton's "hope and celebration" at Fielden Clegg Bradley's lamentable housing complex in Cambridge (Letters May 12).
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Page3
- Next Page