All Building Design articles in 20 July 2007 – Page 2

  • Peel Holdings’ Liverpool Waters plan has provoked some furious opposition.
    Opinion

    Liverpool really needs Unesco

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    I have just read the leader on London’s walkie talkie tower (July 13) and follow BD’s reports on Liverpool’s regeneration.

  • Features

    Short-lived paradise in Milton Keynes

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    The architects were congratulated for this showcase housing for the new town – later described as ‘unliveable’

  • Opinion

    Let judges judge

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    The riba Awards seem to satisfy nobody beyond those that have actually won one, and enrage and perplex almost everybody outside riba HQ.

  • News

    Regency upgrade for homeless

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    John Thompson & Partners has won a limited entry competition to redesign the premises of homelessness organisation St Mungo’s in King’s Cross, central London.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Grim news has a silver lining

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Reports on the pressures of families, careers and homes, and the wealth gap, are making a wet summer worse. Are we losing the plot?

  • Virtual "card model" image by jr architecture.
    Features

    A good looking package

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Architect Jonathan Reeves has been putting the Architecture Edition of Maxon’s Cinema 4D visualisation program through its paces, and he is impressed

  • Opinion

    Great and good

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    BD is always improving but surely it won’t get any better than this (“Grand masters” July 13)?

  • News

    Grimshaw goes to NY

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    A team including architect Grimshaw has revealed designs for this new transit hub in Manhattan.

  • News

    Treasury gives power to regions

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    The government is to give the regions more power to shape their economic and planning strategies.

  • Rotunda: innovative glazing
    News

    Rotunda gets new glass skin

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Glenn Howells Architects’ reworking of the Birmingham Rotunda now has a new glass skin.

  • Opinion

    High-rise future

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    In future I predict all UK high-rise buildings will include “cultavations”, that is, cultivated elevations on their south-facing sides.

  • News

    United front to tackle housing

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Housing and regeneration authorities in the North-west are to join forces in a bid to secure the future for a balanced housing market in the region.

  • Opinion

    Free information

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Interesting news about the new architecture minister Margaret Hodge.

  • Facing the music: the proposed new building at Chetham’s.
    News

    Music school scheme under fire

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Stephenson Bell plans ‘bombastic and ugly’, say heritage groups

  • Opinion

    Figure it out

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Russel Hayden’s mathematical skills are shaky when he writes that Truro Cathedral is 200 years old (I Wish I’d Done That July 13).

  • Technical

    Where are the environment’s new heroes?

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    We must inspire 6th formers if we are to get the skilled people we need

  • News

    Landmark structure planned for south Dublin

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Think Place and Traynor O’Toole Architects have revealed designs for the Gateway building, a proposed landmark structure for Sandyford, south Dublin.

  • News

    HKR heart for Dublin

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    HKR Architects has received planning for Northern Quarter, a €750 million (£510 million) mixed-use scheme in the centre of Dublin.

  • Opinion

    Double fun

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Boots was surprised to see that rather than take at face value Cabe’s comments on Woods Bagot’s 100 West Cromwell Road tower, Kensington & Chelsea council hired an external design consultant to conduct an independent review “in view of Cabe’s ongoing objection to the scheme’s design”.

  • Will wind turbines feature?
    Features

    Green Dragons' Den

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    The search is on for a practice to design a sustainable product or project that will be showcased within the King’s Cross Central site.