All Building Design articles in 20 March 2008 – Page 2

  • News

    Twin set in Kingston

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Terry Pawson Architects has won planning for a pair of private houses in Kingston upon Thames.

  • News

    Urban Splash’s international idea

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Urban Splash has launched an international competition for ideas for Lex, phase two of its mixed-use Walsall Waterfront development.

  • British Council’s office in Egypt
    Opinion

    Our record's a hit

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Further to Frank Duffy’s remarks on whether the UK does enough to promote British design (Debate February 15), the British Council doesn’t need to be persuaded about the importance of architecture in promoting the UK abroad.

  • Economist building: tasty
    Opinion

    Kuma gain

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Despite less than flattering reviews for the food, Alan Yau’s latest eatery Sake No Hana is already picking up praise for its architecture.

  • News

    Green homes to get expert support

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Five proposed housing schemes are to get the chance to be the greenest development in south-west England after winning a low-carbon housing competition.

  • Opinion

    Empty vessels

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    One of the best party invites of Mipim was undoubtedly aboard Vincent Tchenguiz’s yacht Veni Vidi Vici, at which Boots spotted only one architect, former RIBA president George Ferguson.

  • Features

    How can I pick up email on the move?

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    I want to receive emails while I’m on the move, and have been told to get a BlackBerry. What other options are there? Could I get myself an iPhone?

  • Opinion

    Dim view

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    The triple-glazed windows in your article (Solutions March 14) show sections through opening lights.

  • Opinion

    How to help poor health design

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    March’s Healthcare BD Magazine offers a much needed reference.

  • Opinion

    Eau de Nouvel

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    It felt like Christmas at BD Towers when a smart black carrier bag arrived on Boots’ desk containing “the first perfume bottle designed by an architect”.

  • The Commonwealth Institute will be restored by OMA.
    News

    Koolhaas wins competition to restore Commonwealth Institute

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas’s firm OMA is set to restore London’s iconic Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington, after beating competition from architects including Rafael Viñoly, Eric Parry and Caruso St John.

  • HTA Architects is designing the UK’s first Code for Sustainable Homes level 6 eco-village, near Bristol.
    Opinion

    One year on, is the Code for Sustainable Homes working?

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    It is a credible and flexible route towards a zero-carbon future, says Andy von Bradsky; while Mark Brinkley argues that it is a “graveyard of good intentions”

  • Opinion

    Camera shy

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Cabe is not noted for its rebellious nature — but then perhaps the Olympic Delivery Authority knows something we don’t.

  • News

    PRP finishes first Masdar building

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    PRP has delivered the first building for Masdar in Abu Dhabi, planned by Foster & Partners.

  • Technical

    Where Bill goes, the rest are sure to follow

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Phil Clark looks at the key eco-tenets of BedZed progenitor and sustainable housing pioneer Bill Dunster

  • Features

    IT Brief: Better renders

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Abvent Group has released the next version of its rendering software, Artlantis Render & Studio.

  • Features

    Eames puts his best foot forward

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Designer Charles Eames is in a relaxed mood for a press interview

  • Proposed tower seen with Tate Modern to its left
    News

    Simpson ‘shocked’ as Beetham Tower called in

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    DCLG expresses concern over Simpson's landmark London tower despite the scheme’s backing by EH and Cabe

  • BDP employees and friends enjoy a drink at their own bar.
    Features

    Raising the bar with BDP London

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    ‘Every month our hub space is transformed by a different studio team’

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Trash and cash are a bad mix

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Mipim has some real high spots, but the squalid fantasy designs that also flock there shouldn’t be built at all