All Building Design articles in 21 April 2011 – Page 5

  • Hawkins Brown's Corby Cube
    News

    Hawkins Brown's civic hub for Corby

    2011-04-20T08:01:00Z

    Hawkins Brown has unveiled images of its new £35 million civic hub for Corby town centre in Northamptonshire.

  • George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer
    News

    Coalition increases number of PFI schemes

    2011-04-20T07:06:00Z

    The coalition government will sign off more PFI projects this year than in the previous two years, despite both the Tories and Liberal Democrats criticising them before the 2010 election.According to a Channel 4 News, chancellor George Osborne will sign off 40 projects this year compared to 38 in 2009 ...

  • House
    News

    Home owners spend £12,000 on structural changes, says survey

    2011-04-20T07:03:00Z

    Shelter and RIBA reveal average spend as Architect in the House is launched

  • RIBA London Festival of Britain
    News

    RIBA London pays homage to Skylon on Southbank

    2011-04-20T07:00:00Z

    The RIBA is set to take part in the 60th anniversary celebrations at the Southbank Centre this summer with the installation of a temporary bandstand designed by students.The project, a collaboration between part I and part II students, will remain on site outside the Royal Festival Hall from April 22 ...

  • Concrete Boot
    Opinion

    Driven to it

    2011-04-19T17:24:00Z

    Norman Foster must have no shortage of garage space. Having recently built a version of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion car, he last week took receipt of a Tatra T87 (pictured), the Czech car designed in 1936.Foster’s car was found in a terrible state in a garage in Hannover and has now ...

  • Concrete Boot
    Opinion

    Litmus test

    2011-04-19T17:22:00Z

    One of the capital’s most famous eye sores, Elephant & Castle’s lurid “pink elephant” shopping centre is to escape the bulldozer. The run-down 46-year-old centre had long been earmarked for demolition.Now Southwark Council has confirmed a U-turn that will see a few licks of paint turn the pink elephant into ...

  • Concrete Boot
    Opinion

    Fighting talk

    2011-04-19T17:20:00Z

    Meanwhile, Boots’s tips for the Stirling shortlist are: David Lea and Pat Borer’s Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (Wise); FOA’s Ravensbourne College of Art; Hadid’s Evelyn Grace school; Foster’s winery at Faustino; One New Change by Jean Nouvel; the Velodrome by Hopkins and Sarah Wigglesworth’s school in Wakefield .But the ...

  • /o/a/d/Broadgate_Make_2_ready.jpg
    News

    Make wins planning approval for 5 Broadgate

    2011-04-19T16:43:00Z

    The City of London’s planning and transportation committee today resolved to grant planning permission for Make’s giant new UBS headquarters at 5 Broadgate.The move was today welcomed by Broadgate owner British Land and paves the way for the demolition of 4 and 6 Broadgate, designed by Arup Associates and developed ...

  • Cartoon by Tim Sanders
    News

    Libeskind pool ceiling collapses in Bern

    2011-04-19T15:09:00Z

    The ceiling of a retail and leisure centre designed by Daniel Libeskind has collapsed for the second time in three years in the Swiss capital of Bern.

  • Madryn Street, one of the Welsh Streets in Liverpool, which is threatened by Pathfinder
    News

    Save holds up Pathfinder demolition in Liverpool

    2011-04-19T15:05:00Z

    Save Britain’s Heritage has scored a major victory in its campaign to keep the Pathfinder bulldozers out of Liverpool after communities secretary Eric Pickles issued a stop notice

  • One of the existing White Cube gallery buildings in Mason's Yard
    News

    London's third White Cube gallery to go ahead

    2011-04-19T09:55:00Z

    Casper Mueller Kneer set to design Southwark warehouse conversion

  • Union Terrace Gardens
    News

    Competition launched for Aberdeen's Union Terrace Gardens

    2011-04-19T09:51:00Z

    Malcolm Reading Consultants running contest for £140 million scheme

  • Climbers mount ladders, grabbing bottles among glass orbs.
    Review

    Wignall & Moore’s The King and the Minotaur

    2011-04-19T08:24:00Z

    Wignall & Moore’s labyrinth installation exemplifies our cultural fixation with the temporary

  • Pecha Kucha Japan
    News

    Global PechaKucha raises Japan funds

    2011-04-19T07:26:00Z

    Nearly 100 cities around the world have taken part in a global PechaKucha event to raise funds for the reconstruction of Japan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

  • An aerial view of the site from 1951
    News

    Festival of Britain images published for first time

    2011-04-19T07:25:00Z

    Archive pictures of the Festival of Britain have been published for the first time, to coincide with the event’s 60th anniversary.