All Building Design articles in 21 January 2011 – Page 3

  • The original RHSP designs for Oxley Woods, Milton Keynes
    News

    Rogers ditched from Milton Keynes housing scheme

    2011-01-21T08:16:00Z

    Developer abandons RSHP factory-built housing for ’traditional’ design

  • Glenn Howell's Kings Cross scheme
    News

    Howells’ King’s Cross tower gets green light

    2011-01-21T07:20:00Z

    Camden planners have approved Glenn Howells Architects’ plans for a student accommodation tower at the King’s Cross Central redevelopment in London.

  • Architecture graduates
    News

    Newcastle’s Grad scheme sets pace for recruitment

    2011-01-21T07:15:00Z

    A scheme helping unemployed architecture graduates find work is being hailed as a model of how architecture schools and practices can help students gain access to the profession.

  • Communities secretary Eric Pickles
    News

    Pickles accused of seizing powers

    2011-01-21T07:10:00Z

    Communities secretary Eric Pickles has been accused of using the localism bill to hand himself more than 100 new powers over local authorities.

  • William Kent: Landscape in Wimbledon, 1738.
    Review

    Work on Paper, part I: Landscape situations

    2011-01-21T02:00:00Z

    The first in a new series examining the role of drawing in architecture.

  • City of Lingering Splendour: A Frank Account of Old Peking’s Exotic Pleasures, by John Blofeld
    Review

    Building a Library 41: City of Lingering Splendour, by John Blofeld

    2011-01-21T00:11:00Z

    Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.

  • Mark's Barfield's Islamia
    Opinion

    School views

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Our office is adjacent to the site of the Islamia school in Salusbury Road and I am a local resident

  • Ellis Woodman - editor
    Opinion

    Modern methods stumble

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The Oxley Woods u-turn only shows that prefabricated housing must be built on a bigger scale to be economically viable.

  • Opinion

    Out of hours

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The assault on an employee of Bond Bryan reinforces the notion that the long hours culture in practice should not be tolerated.

  • Opinion

    Get the picture

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The illustration of Liam O’Connor’s design for the Bomber Command memorial planned for Green Park (Letters January 14), does not depict the real situation.

  • Father Francis Xavier Martin
    Features

    Fighting a good fight

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Father Francis Xavier Martin led the 1979 protest against development of Dublin’s Wood Quay

  • This week's ups and downs
    News

    This week's ups and downs

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Hot and not

  • Opinion

    Stop the damage

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The sudden abolition of the RIBA Trust is very difficult to justify. It has been one of the most successful parts of the RIBA.But it raises issues more important than just the discourteous way it was handled by the chief executive. The manner by which this “reorganisation” was forced through ...

  • Features

    Free yourself from computer slavery

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    In your working life you may sometimes feel that you are chained to your computer. Instead information technology should be seen as an opportunity for more freedom in how you work.

  • Opinion

    No comparison

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Reviewing Shoshan/Grootens’ Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine, Levent Kerimol suggests that “an equivalent look at Jewish ghettos, holocausts and pogroms, placed alongside the constrained conditions of Palestinian Arabs could raise an ironic hypocrisy in the present situation”.

  • How do I set up in China?
    Features

    How do I set up in China?

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    China is the biggest market in the world for architects, but how do you go about getting a piece of the action?

  • Ferris Bueller house
    Opinion

    Cabe lock-in

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    While plans for a successor to Cabe may be inching forward, morale at the commission is taking a battering.

  • Opinion

    Border skirmish

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Levent Kerimol is an unlikely character to review Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine.

  • Union North's Lancaster student block
    Building Study

    First look: Union North’s Lancaster student block

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The architect’s design for a 96-bedroom housing block that reveals the building’s original “fossilised” history has been given the green light.

  • RIBA's London HQ
    Opinion

    An insult to all who gave time

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The creation of the RIBA Trust a few years ago really marked a positive sea change in the way the cultural side of architecture was to be cared for