All Building Design articles in 19 September 2008 – Page 3

  • 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”.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

    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.

  • 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.

  • This week's ups and downs
    News

    This week's ups and downs

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    What's hot and not

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Opinion

    The wrong job?

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Opinion

    Making a splash

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

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

  • 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.

  • Saarinen: all-American guy.
    Opinion

    Saarinen style

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    I feel I should correct Dennis Sharp’s piece on the American Embassy (Debate August 29) when he calls Eero Saarinen a “Finnish” architect. His father may have been, but Eero was an American when he competed for the embassy project.

  • News

    Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands to redevelop London fire station

    2008-09-22T09:29:00Z

    Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has been selected to refurbish the listed 8 Albert Embankment building on London’s South Bank.

  • Kohn Pederson Fox Associates' Abu Dhabi International Airport terminal
    News

    Kohn Pedersen Fox designs vast terminal for Abu Dhabi airport

    2008-09-22T09:39:00Z

    Plans for one of the world’s largest airport terminals at Abu Dhabi International Airport have been unveiled by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates.

  • News

    Solano Benitez wins Swiss Architectural Award

    2008-09-22T09:45:00Z

    Paraguayan architect Solano Benitez has won the first £50,000 BSI Swiss Architectural Award, beating British architects David Adjaye and Thomas Heatherwick.

  • Blogs

    News Junkie: 20 and 21 September

    2008-09-22T11:50:00Z

    RIBA President Sunand Prasad and the British Council for School Environments claim the government’s Building Schools for the Future programme is failing because of a lack of proper consultation between architects and teachers.