All Building Design articles in 20th Ocotber 2006 – Page 3

  • News

    Sealed with a Bow

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

  • The Tabard Square development in Borough
    News

    The Tabard Square development in Borough

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    This striking 22-storey tower by Rolfe Judd Architects and Berkeley Homes has won a design honour at this year’s Housebuilding Innovation Awards.

  • 140 Boomerangs project, in which modular boomerang forms can easily be assembled to make varying configurations
    News

    Boomerangs a high flier

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    This is the third year in which the Architecture Foundation has made a travel award for UK students of architecture, sponsored by KPF.

  • Opinion

    Mersey beat

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Although I am grateful for the carbuncle nomination (Focus October 13), I hasten to add that I am not, nor have been since the millennium, the head of school at Liverpool University.

  • Opinion

    Lifes a beach

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Architects at DSDHA have bravely challenged their fellow professionals to a surf competition, following a highly successful office surfing trip to Devon (pictured).

  • MacCormac: practice “in freefall”.
    News

    ...while MacCormac suffers fallout following BBC loss

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Award-winning practice MacCormac Jamieson Prichard is continuing to suffer the aftershocks of losing its flagship Broadcasting House project, with the departure of two of its remaining six directors, it emerged this week.

  • Features

    How do I set up a website for my practice? - the basics

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    There are a number of steps to take to get your practice on the web:

  • Opinion

    Bad case of wind

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Will Alsop’s Palestra building in Southwark, the new home of the London Development Agency, can be seen from Boots’ desk and has certainly improved the view.

  • Opinion

    How to avoid a succession of disasters

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    It’s not only prime ministers who find the business of succession difficult. Architects do, too.

  • News

    Foster and Farrell stand to attention for barracks

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster and Terry Farrell are among the architects competing to design a residential scheme for Chelsea Barracks, the biggest site to be sold in London for a decade.

  • Opinion

    This week's top architectural job opportunities...

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    We offer a unique blend of inconclusive musing at absolutely fantastic day rates

  • News

    RIBA proposals offer peace to Arb

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Institute drops campaign for regulatory reform order as part of package to end hostilities with regulator

  • News

    Salisbury council move to listed site approved

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Stanton Williams has received planning approval and listed building consent for its scheme to bring together the seven disparate offices of Salisbury District Council into one building at Bourne Hill, Salisbury.

  • Koolhaas’s fun structure needs to be visited to be judged.
    Opinion

    Another view

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Why was Rem Koolhaas’s Serpentine Pavilion selected as a carbuncle? “A bad attempt at 1960s inflatable architecture” sounds like a bottom of the barrel critique.

  • News

    Anger as Barker ‘dismisses design’

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    One of the government’s key economic advisers is embroiled in an extraordinary row with architects after delivering a speech to RIBA East that sparked “seething anger” among the audience.

  • Royal Preston Hospital
    Opinion

    Postcards from an accidental inpatient

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Architects, procurement managers and government ministers all say they’re committed to creating better hospitals. Any time you like, urges Ian Martin. Snapshots by Adam Turtle

  • Technical

    How we cracked it 37: Margate

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    The challenge: To create a 25m-high sculpture that would collapse in a controlled manner and burn safely