All Building Design articles in 20 July 2007 – Page 3

  • Opinion

    Crying shame

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Arriving at Portcullis House, Westminster, for the launch of the RIBA’s Manifesto for Architecture last week, Boots was startled to find a group of performers of an advanced age, wearing only white bath towels, dancing to the music of South Pacific for an audience of civil servants.

  • Richmond: loved by the client.
    Opinion

    Cracking up

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Tony McIntyre’s review of the new house remodelling on Richmond Hill (Works July 6) was less than generous and bore no comparison to the house I visited earlier this year.

  • Opinion

    As Ratso knew, good experience costs

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Richard Serra’s triumphant retrospective is a lesson in how to win over the crowd

  • Edwin Lutyens’ Ferry Inn at Rosneath, built in 1896-97 for one of Queen Victoria’s daughters.
    Review

    Muthesius comes home

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    The only shame about this really magnificent century-old work is that the English have been denied it for so long

  • News

    Verona comes to Dunfermline museum

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Richard Murphy Architects has won an invited competition organised by RIAS and Fife Council to design this striking museum in Dunfermline.

  • Idea floated: Lau’s scheme.
    News

    Lau takes top prize for floating city scheme

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Bartlett student Anthony Lau’s outlandish design to create a floating city on abandoned ships has won first prize in this year’s Corus Architectural Student Awards.

  • The external lighting will take account of the fact the Hub will be visible from the QE2 Bridge over the Thames at Dartford.
    News

    Hub will form a centrepiece for Thames Gateway regeneration

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Architect Hazle McCormack Young has unveiled its competition-winning design for the Hub, the centrepiece of a flagship Thames Gateway regeneration project.

  • Cutaway section through playspace canopy
    Building Study

    In detail: Maryland Early Years Centre, Stratford, London

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Architect FluidStructural Engineer ConisbeePrefabricated panels Framework CDMA single-storey early years centre in east London was built in an incredibly short five-months using a prefabricated timber superstructure. The centre houses a daycare room for two to five year olds, a staff training room and a classroom shared with the next-door primary ...

  • Simmons: pounding BD
    Opinion

    Cash questions

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons was unable to attend the Academy of Urbanism meeting this week on account of his extremely busy and important diary, but in an email to other academicians including Richard Rogers, Roger Madelin and Terry Farrell, he shares his thoughts on how Piers Gough’s resignation ended ...

  • Candy Wharf, EC3 - This Magri Group project by architect Nick Yeates features apartments from £250,000
    News

    Candy & Candy go to court in name row

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Luxury developer objects to East End flats called Candy Wharf

  • Set for chop: the 92m tower.
    News

    Officer’s blunder over tower

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Council did not have consent for skyscraper on Earls Court site

  • First floor street core wall
    Technical

    Concrete soffit takes the biscuit

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    160 Tooley Street London SE1

  • News

    Beware past errors, warns report on superdensity

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    A new wave of “superdense” urban housing estates must be developed with great care to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, warns a report by four of Britain’s largest housing practices.

  • Features

    Get the best out of your BlackBerry

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    My practice has issued me with a BlackBerry. I have not been able to put it down — but all I have been doing is check to see what’s happening at work.

  • News

    Casino boom is over... for time being

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Architects’ hopes of cashing in on new casino developments were dashed last week after prime minister Gordon Brown announced a policy review on gambling.

  • News

    Carey made president of BCO

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Gordon Carey, chair of Carey Jones Architects, has been appointed president of the British Council for Offices (BCO) for the next year.

  • News

    Battersea Power Station team set

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    The team working with Rafael Viñoly on the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station will include engineer Buro Happold and planning consultant DP9, Treasury Holdings announced this week.

  • News

    Land Securities buys back shares

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Land Securities shareholders this week voted to buy back shares in the company at its annual meeting after the firm’s share price dropped.

  • Opinion

    Should old places win awards for good urbanism?

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    The Academy of Urbanism's awards celebrate great places that fire the imagination whether old or new, says its chair, John Thomson. But Richard Lavington thinks they read like a tame tourist board guide

  • News

    Bluecoat arts space topped out

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Merseyside’s Bluecoat arts space, redesigned by Holland-based BIQ with Austin Smith Lord and Donald Insall Associates, was topped out last week.