All Building Design articles in 2 June 2006 – Page 3

  • Beamish’s collection of historic industrial buildings
    News

    Shortlist of seven for Beamish centre

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    A shortlist of seven practices has been announced for the design of the £6 million visitor centre at Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum.

  • News

    BDP and HLM land Sheffield schools haul

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    BDP and HLM have landed one of the biggest prizes yet in the government's £2.2 billion a year Building Schools for the Future programme, as part of the consortium appointed to rebuild every secondary school in Sheffield by 2015.

  • 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.
    News

    Art of gold

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    The government has given the green light to Rafael Viñoly's visual arts centre in Colchester. The borough council hopes the crescent-shaped building - dubbed "the Golden Banana" - will provide a catalyst for the regeneration of the town's St Boltoph's quarter.

  • View of Architype’s design for the school, as it would be seen from neighboring tower blocks.
    News

    Architype's lesson in sustainability

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Bristol City Council has granted planning permission for this sustainable primary school and children's centre designed by Architype. The £4 million scheme will be built on the site of the existing Barton Hill Primary School site, replacing the school as well as nearby Cashmore Nursery.

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    Features

    Architest

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    This week: 10 years ago, stories from BD June 1996.

  • News

    Architecture Rocks at the London Biennale

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    From Germans with synthesisers, avant-garde Dutchpeople to teenage Sheffield architecture students - the quest to find architects in rock bands has produced diverse and rewarding results. Click here to hear their demos and win tickets to hear them play at the London biennale on 24 June.

  • German band Hörstreich is one of the bands playing at Architecture Rocks later this month
    News

    Vote for the best architecture band

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    From Germans with synthesisers and avant-garde Dutch people to teenage Sheffield architecture students - the quest to find architects in rock bands produced diverse and rewarding results.

  • Work has begun on the £35 million Baltic Place project in Gateshead, a 13-storey, twin-tower office by Waring & Netts.
    News

    Tyne and again

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Work has begun on the £35 million Baltic Place project in Gateshead, a 13-storey, twin-tower office by Waring & Netts.

  • Opinion

    Acting up

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Regarding "Title abuser convicted" (News May 26), can you please confirm whether the Arb has rewritten the Architect's Act without anyone being informed?

  • Multimedia

    Open House Contemporary Episode 1

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Charles Holland of FAT talking about the recently unveiled New Islington scheme recorded earlier this week at Cube in Manchester.

  • Features

    On work, BBQs and long summer evenings

    2006-06-01T18:22:00Z

    Week 3 at Hooke Park, and we are back in the workshop after a long weekend at home. This time it we settled back in quickly and got back to the cutting, sawing, sorting and assembling in confidence.

  • Opinion

    John Gummer's proposal to scrap the building regulations

    2006-06-01T00:00:00Z

    John Gummer's proposal (BD 19 May) to scrap the building regulations raises two questions. What do we think their purpose is? If they were scrapped would other legislation soon take their place?

  • Opinion

    Better schools? Where the real challenge lies

    2006-06-01T00:00:00Z

    A real opportunity for better schools or a cash cow for those who have until now seen little profit in the educational sector?