All Building Design articles in 19 September 2008 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    The public’s plan

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Saul Metzstein in his comments on Kevin McCloud & The Big Town Plan TV programme (Culture September 12) did not mention the role of the public in finding solutions to Castleford’s regeneration.

  • Opinion

    Making a splash

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Whatever one made of Aaron Betsky’s biennale, sober it wasn’t.

  • The proposed Princes Street mixed-use scheme
    News

    New look in Princes Street planned

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    A mixed-use scheme on Edinburgh’s famous Princes Street by SMC Hugh Martin has been submitted for planning.

  • News

    Kinetic sheds light on upgrade

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Kinetic AIU is to redevelop RIBA West Midlands regional offices and bookshop in Birmingham.

  • Proposed stadium
    News

    Kick-off for Mexican stadium

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    HOK Sport has unveiled the first images of a new 50,000 capacity football stadium in Monterrey, Mexico.

  • Opinion

    The wrong job?

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    What Ruth Reed made of the biennale is hard to say.

  • Opinion

    Hairy Pollocks

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    John Callcutt is a man who likes to know what things are really worth, so walking around the Jackson Pollock exhibition in New York recently he set himself a task he told architects in Venice.

  • News

    Less red tape for home extensions

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    The Department for Communities & Local Government introduced new planning regulations last week intended to cut red tape for home improvements.

  • This week's ups and downs
    News

    This week's ups and downs

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    What's hot and not

  • BD 5 September 08
    Opinion

    High standards despite ratios

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Architecture degrees leap in popularity (News September 5) revealed that the annual number of students studying architecture has jumped by 10,000 in four years.

  • News

    Deadline extended for Zumtobel

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Zumtobel has extended the deadline for its 2008 photographic competition to October 24 owing to unprecedented demand and problems with cameras previously issued.

  • Barry Cunliffe
    News

    Cunliffe steps in to take the lead

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Barry Cunliffe (pictured) has been appointed as the interim chair of English Heritage following the death of Sandy Bruce-Lockhart in August this year.

  • News

    Cruz Ovalle is a natural winner

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Chilean architect José Cruz Ovalle has won the Spirit of Nature Wood Award for skilled and creative use of wood in architecture.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Prepare to fight your corner

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    As recession looms, it is up to architects to ensure that planning consultants don’t take away more of their work

  • Opinion

    Not consulted

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    In response to ACA’s publication of its own appointment document (News September 5), Richard Brindley is quoted as being “disappointed” because “the ACA was extensively consulted in the initial development of the RIBA contracts”.

  • Mike Tuffrey
    News

    Opposition condemns Design for London cuts

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Mayor told to rethink design staff layoffs to protect future of architecture

  • News

    Mobile pavilion competition

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    RIBA Yorkshire, in partnership with the RIBA competitions office and regional development agency, Yorkshire Forward, has launched a national competition to design a new £650,000 mobile pavilion.

  • Paul King
    News

    Industry taskforce to develop green code

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    RIBA president Sunand Prasad and Alistair Guthrie, director of Ove Arup, have joined a taskforce of construction industry leaders to develop a new Code for Sustainable Buildings.

  • Coates, 1984
    Features

    Coates reimagines London and Venice

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Nigel Coates, who exhibited at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, set out on the show trail early as this 1984 snap attests

  • Opinion

    Free range choice

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    Boundaries can either confine ideas and produce pedestrian work or can provide the impetus for tangential solutions and creative ideas. This is true both in schools and in the workplace.