All Building Design articles in 21 April 2011 – Page 4

  • News

    Disability pioneer Goldsmith dies

    2011-04-21T07:51:00Z

    Architect Selwyn Goldsmith, author of the influential Designing for the Disabled, and inventor of the dropped kerb, has died aged 78.

  • The Lee Valley venue at Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire
    News

    FaulknerBrowns’ venue open to all

    2011-04-21T07:51:00Z

    FaulknerBrowns Architects’ White Water Centre will tomorrow become the first 2012 Olympic venue to open to the public.

  • Baca Architects' completed house designed around a musical family in the Chilterns
    News

    Living in harmony

    2011-04-21T07:47:00Z

    Baca Architects has completed a house designed around a musical family in the Chilterns, south-east England.

  • McGill ContemPLAY01
    News

    Canadian students showcase ContemPLAY pavilion

    2011-04-21T07:39:00Z

    The McGill school of architecture in Montreal, Canada, has released images of a final-year project for masters students.

  • Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma
    News

    Kuma adds extra talk at Dundee

    2011-04-21T07:00:00Z

    Due to popular demand the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma will now deliver two public lectures at Dundee University when he visits next month

  • Concrete Boot
    Opinion

    Plans for Nigel?

    2011-04-21T06:50:00Z

    Rumours are sweeping the corridors of power at the RCA over who will get the much-coveted dean of architecture job, a new post charged with delivering an enlarged and reinvigorated school of architecture with up to 200 students.Nigel Coates, the RCA’s professor of architecture, would love the job, but will ...

  • Scruton: concerned with beauty and character.
    Opinion

    Roger not Rogers

    2011-04-21T00:00:00Z

    I agree entirely with Roger Scruton (bdonline April 11).

  • Opinion

    Latin quarters

    2011-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Perhaps Roger Scruton should take a drive along the A35 and see the latest part of Poundbury – multistorey blocks of poor classicism with knobs on.

  • Opinion

    Healthcare sets the precedent

    2011-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Architects can and should be at the front in delivering procurement cost reductions in the school sector (News April 15).

  • Opinion

    Exam revision

    2011-04-21T00:00:00Z

    You report (News April 8) that the Architects Registration Board may lose £41,000 of income from its prescribed examination.

  • Going up, Going down, Quoted
    News

    This week's ups and downs

    2011-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Hot and not

  • Opinion

    Same difference

    2011-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Great schools require:

  • Hopkins’ school scheme.
    Opinion

    Garden design

    2011-04-21T00:00:00Z

    The heart of my neighbourhood, Hampstead Garden Suburb, has recently been destroyed for ever by a high-profile “starchitect”.

  • Opinion

    Centre stage

    2011-04-21T00:00:00Z

    The Architecture Centre Network is a vital force in bringing architecture to the public (“Architecture Centre Network ’could close’ after latest funding blow”, bdonline April 14).

  • Robert Harbison 1980
    Features

    His back pages

    2011-04-21T00:00:00Z

    In 1980 Robert Harbison’s second book was being reviewed in BD

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    News

    Blaze destroys original feature of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia

    2011-04-20T13:31:00Z

    1,500 evacuated in arson attack on Barcelona cathedral

  • London Library
    News

    Annual AIA awards gala honours British winners

    2011-04-20T10:08:00Z

    Zaha Hadid and Terry Pawson among winners at UK Chapter event

  • Shapes
    Features

    CPD 2011 Module 5: Architectural Cladding

    2011-04-20T08:45:00Z

    This CPD explores the use of architectural cladding to create a practical, decorative and sustainable facade. It is sponsored by Ruukki.

  • Studio Egret West plans a mix of styles for a former rail freight depot site.
    News

    Egret West leads £350m Gateshead homes plan

    2011-04-20T08:07:00Z

    Studio Egret West is heading a team of four practices picked to work on a £350 million scheme to build 2,500 homes across a series of sites in Gateshead.

  • Nord- Alan Pert (left) and Robin Lee
    News

    Nord splits due to irreconcilable differences

    2011-04-20T08:06:00Z

    One of Britain’s most exciting young firms, Nord, has split up due to irreconcilable differences between its founding directors.