All Building Design articles in 20 May 2005 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    Great inspiration

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    I was very moved by Ellis Woodman’s piece on Colin St John Wilson (News Analysis April 29).

  • News

    A French lesson

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    A new conference promoting the French model of urbanism to the British is to take place in Lille this summer.

  • Richard Rogers’ plans for the News International site include 3,500 homes and a waste recycling plant but have been branded “not particularly interesting” by local opponents.
    News

    Rogers faces tide of protest over wharf

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers faced fierce opposition to a scheme for Rupert Murdoch’s News International this week when local protesters staged an elaborate demonstration against the project.

  • Opinion

    Election on track

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    With one week to go, formal entries for the RIBA part-council elections were certainly looking thin (News May 13).

  • News

    Edinburgh link-up

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    10-mile waterfront walk to be first step towards Farrell’s city tiles vision

  • Cathy Stewart: 50/50 recruitment drive.
    Opinion

    School drive

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    The battle for more women in architecture begins in schools such as Putney High School for Girls.

  • Opinion

    Make a difference

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    I was fascinated to read that Make hopes to become the first “carbon-neutral” practice (News May 6).

  • Opinion

    Just the job to improve office design

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    For many, the office is the setting for a good chunk of life. The place where we spend much of our time, it’s the often unglamorous backdrop to our creative successes and frustrations, our friendships, relationships and rivalries.

  • Opinion

    School daze

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    When I hear mention of the Smithsons’ Hunstanton School (Letters, May 6), I do not think of ground-breaking architecture.

  • Opinion

    The wrong culprit

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    It is hardly fair to accuse architects of a widespread ignorance of flood issues (Solutions May 6).

  • Opinion

    Solving the housing crisis

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Your issue of May 13 raises a variety of complex “solutions” to the housing crisis.

  • News

    No homes shortage, say conservationists

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    The planning system is working well and delivering enough new houses, according to conservation campaigners.

  • The “triple Julia” crop circle created at Avebury, Wiltshire, on July 26 1996. Within two hours, 194 circles appeared spread across a 300m-long area.
    Review

    Crop circles and me

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Crop circles are a cultural highpoint of artistic expression in rural England that rival anything in Tate Modern.

  • News

    Cup chameleon

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    This technicolour stadium is the latest offering from Herzog & de Meuron.

  • Echoes of Colonial Cuba, 2005 — “It encapsulates the experience I had in parts of Cuba.”
    Review

    From cad to canvas

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Ellen Bennett talks to architect-turned-artist Christopher Firmstone

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Use the forceYou would think a seminar on the future of terrace housing would be the one place where you could escape the hype surrounding this week’s release of the new Star Wars film. You thought wrong. Paul Lees of Adactus Housing Group tried to make his talk more entertaining ...

  • News

    Corporate death bill planned

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    A new offence of corporate manslaughter was included in the Queen’s mammoth 45-bill speech on Tuesday.

  • Conran & Partners’ Tokyo scheme features residential and office blocks strung along the Tamagawa river.
    News

    Conran & Partners gets bigger in Japan with Tokyo win

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Conran & Partners has revealed its competition-winning designs for Tokyo’s largest single urban regeneration project.

  • News

    Rescue bid for Lancashire terraces

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Terraced housing at the centre of a row over demolition could be transformed into high-quality des-reses under proposals by a housing association.

  • Opinion

    Hopes pinned on the design ber-champ

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Tessa Jowell, re-appointed as culture secretary in the new Cabinet, is, we are told, bidding to become a new “über-champion” for good design across government departments.