All Building Design articles in 2 June 2006 – Page 2

  • Famous in Japan
    News

    Famous in Japan

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Architectural connection: Noam is an AA graduate, working as an architect in Shoreditch. Ralf trained in Berlin and co-founded an architectural practice in London.

  • Opinion

    Fountain fair play

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Mary Bowman of Gustafson Porter suggests my continued pursuit for the truth behind the flawed competition is because my design was not shortlisted (Letters May 19). I was, in fact, never a competitor! I also have yet to contact her company.However, it is my continued belief that any design ...

  • News

    Mayor doubles green target

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Concern grows over Livingstone's plan to increase requirements for production of renewable on-site energy

  • Opinion

    Is the listing system set for demolition?

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Whatever your view is about the merits of RMJM’s Commonwealth Institute, the decision by Tessa Jowell to seek its demolition through a special act of parliament should not come as a total surprise.

  • Opinion

    Valley of death

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    I symphathise with Stephen Lawrence having his intellectual work for the Lower Lea Valley park unacknowledged by Stratford (News May 19). We spent three years on a masterplan for the valley for Newham, after winning a competition in 1999. While we were negotiating the next stage Edaw slipped in with ...

  • News

    English Heritage sidelined from DCMS listings review

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Commonwealth Institute demolition plan sparks row over future of heritage protection

  • Matteo Cainer
    Review

    Culture Vulture

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    This week: Matteo Cainer

  • News

    Hopkins' cream of Jersey

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Quality tsar for St Helier waterfront

  • Design for a recycling camp in West Panchsheel Vihar, South Delhi,  by Natalie Horner, a fourth-year student at Maurice Mitchell's practice, Dwyer Mitchell Architects.
    News

    Course gives training in natural disasters

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Architects will have an opportunity to assist those recovering from natural disasters with the introduction of a new masters degree at the London Metropolitan University.

  • FPRC’s Coston Park scheme
    News

    Surprise winner in country house stakes

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    A new contender has emerged for the title of the first country house to be approved under PPS7 legislation, which allows schemes of exceptional quality to be built in protected rural areas.

  • Opinion

    Clarification

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Studio Egret West is the practice working with Edaw on the Holt Town Waterfront (News May 26), not Studio Egret as our abbreviated headline had it.

  • The City of the Captive Globe (1972) by Rem Koolhaas with Madelon Vriesendorp and Elia Zenghelis.
    Review

    Exploring the city of tomorrow

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Two London exhibitions present visions of the future in design and materials. The Barbican's Future City offers sometimes outrageous experimental and utopian designs, says Ellis Woodman.

  • The constantly evolving Shanghai skyline.
    Review

    The story of China's gateway

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    A book on Shanghai's architecture peels back the layers of its colonial history

  • Opinion

    Fighting chance

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    The new presidential triumvirate (Who will win your vote, May 26) sets Peter Phillips centre-stage, flanked by two candidates who sound as if they may have chosen their speech makers from ranks of government identikit androids. He sounds refreshingly apart, a bit like Jeremy Clarkson.

  • News

    Howells and Castlemore take on Leeds city centre

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Glen Howell's domination of the North continued this week with his appointment to develop a £275 million mixed-use scheme in Leeds City Centre.

  • News

    Grimshaw mixes business and pleasure

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Grimshaw Architects has won two major appointments: to design phase 2 of the Excel London centre, and to create a new Winter Gardens in Bournemouth.

  • Left to right: The Duke of Gloucester, Spencer de Grey and Norman Foster
    Review

    Building a future

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Is architectural imagination the driving force behind new technologies, or do technologies inspire architects? Elaine Knutt reports on the Building Centre's new show that says we need both approaches

  • News

    Public space proposal for Building Centre

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    The chairman of the Building Centre Trust, Spencer de Grey, has outlined plans for a new public space for London outside the centre, where Sheppard Robson's £60,000 house is on display.

  • Huffin and puffin
    Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Comments on this week...

  • News

    Beamish museum competition shortlist

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Beamish open air museum is a collection of 19th and 20th century buildings rescued from across north-east England and reconstructed in the County Durham countryside. Now, a competition for a £6 million visitors centre, will add a contemporary building to the mix.