All Building Design articles in 21 May 2010 – Page 2

  • The deal between Holyrood and Westminster could be renegotiated with less cash going to Scotland
    News

    Scotland is braced for bad times

    2010-05-21T08:00:00Z

    The RIAS met in Stirling last week, amid fears that low support for the Conservatives could lead to Scotland being hit hardest by the new government’s spending cuts

  • Practice - 21 May 2010
    Features

    Is there anything we can do to tackle the problem of low pay?

    2010-05-21T08:00:00Z

    BD has recently given extensive coverage to the issue of low pay in the profession, but there has not been much focus on the answer. What is the BD Practice columnists’ solution?

  • The harbourside seafood restaurant features terraces on both ground and first floor levels
    News

    Guy Hollaway ahead of the curve with Kent harbourside restaurant

    2010-05-21T08:00:00Z

    Local practice Guy Hollaway Architects has won planning approval for a new £2 million seafood restaurant in Folkestone.

  • Partington: go with people you trust
    Features

    Me and my IT: Robin Partington

    2010-05-21T07:59:00Z

    How Robin Partington Architects’ 30-strong staff got to grips with office technology

  • George Oldham was unable to secure enough valid nominations by last week’s deadline
    News

    Nomination shortfall foils Oldham’s bid for president

    2010-05-21T07:59:00Z

    Low pay candidate George Oldham has failed in his eleventh hour bid to become the next president of the RIBA.

  • Hugh Davies
    Features

    Know your building’s carbon footprint

    2010-05-21T07:58:00Z

    Online carbon calculator tools help architects understand energy and environmental issues

  • Glenn Howells
    News

    Glenn Howells hired to ‘shift around’ Birmingham Eastside site

    2010-05-21T07:58:00Z

    Glenn Howells Architects has been hired to redraw plans for one of the UK’s biggest regeneration zones, Eastside in Birmingham, following news that the government plans to build a high speed rail link through it.

  • Earls Court Exhibition Centre
    News

    Earls Court to receive Olympic makeover

    2010-05-21T07:57:00Z

    Populous and Allies & Morrison are set to transform Earls Court Exhibition Centre into a temporary Olympic venue

  • No danger of stuck heads here
    Opinion

    Sticking point

    2010-05-21T00:00:00Z

    The problems raised by Charles Bain Smith (Letters May 7) appear to have been “resolved in part” by Theis & Khan, as shown in Works of your May 14 issue

  • Opinion

    Number's up

    2010-05-21T00:00:00Z

    In my experience, architects don’t always have the best grasp of numbers

  • Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Battle of Britain memorial
    Opinion

    Who will pay for our memorials?

    2010-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Despite there being a moratorium on memorials in London’s Royal Parks, and the recommendations by the planning officers of City of Westminster to refuse the application, Westminster’s planning committee has approved the Bomber Command Memorial for Green Park, an irrelevant and ridiculous 100m-long grand colonnade on Piccadilly – a colonnade ...

  • Opinion

    Legislate now

    2010-05-21T00:00:00Z

    As a long-in-the-tooth chartered architectural technologist, well versed in building regulations and providing clients with a good service I am bound by a code of conduct that states quite clearly that full members of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologist offering architectural services are required to carry professional indemnity insurance.If ...

  • Opinion

    Please leave now

    2010-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Architects spend their lives whining, blaming Conservative governments and playing the martyr, almost revelling in their tough education and massive redundancies in the bad times

  • Opinion

    Sad slave labour

    2010-05-21T00:00:00Z

    What a sad profession architecture really is - practices only kept economic by slave labour hours, by graduates who will be sacked the next day once whatever horrible, meritless building they are working on has moved on from documentation stage

  • Features

    Expert in a variety of fields

    2010-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Patrick Nuttgens’ life encompassed broadcasting, writing and academia

  • Trobridge’s Mountaire Court in Kingsbury: a pre-emptive postmodern take on Tudorbethan
    Review

    Ernest Trobridge: Visionary of the Suburbs

    2010-05-21T00:00:00Z

    How Ernest Trobridge celebrated ’ancient glories’ to create a peculiarly English corner of suburbia

  • This week's ups and downs
    News

    This week's ups and downs

    2010-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Hot and not

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    A home under St Paul’s dome?

    2010-05-21T00:00:00Z

    The most unlikely conversions could make magnificent places to live.

  • Museum of London
    News

    London on display

    2010-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre’s £20 million redevelopment of the Museum of London opens next Friday with 25% more space and a glass frontage that allows passers-by to see in to Moya & Partners’ 1976 landmark for the first time

  • Aziz Qayoumi
    Opinion

    Death row and data protection

    2010-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Boots was concerned to read about the plight of AA graduate-turned property developer Aziz Qayoumi (pictured) who is currently on death row in Kabul