All Building Design articles in 22 July 2005 – Page 2

  • Review

    Delirious Dublin

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    This is Dublin, as seen by Niall Durney, an architect with BDP Advanced Technologies, who is exhibiting his large-scale canvases at an exhibition in Manchester.

  • News

    Olympic deal revealed

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Ex-Cabe chairman Stuart Lipton agreed not to frustrate plans for the 2012 London Olympics in exchange for co-operation over a £4 billion development on a neighbouring site in which his company has a 25% interest.

  • Opinion

    Number crunching

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    In response to Stan Beanland (Letters July 15), staff costs are not the same as salaries.

  • News

    Sound wave of complaints

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    New noise problems emerge at Greenwich Millennium Village as management claims to have solution

  • Jinhua Commercial & Culture Centre, designed by Ai Weiwei with Herzog & de Meuron.
    Review

    Enjoying Chinas fertile climate

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    We listen to Herzog & de Meuron collaborator Ai Weiwei

  • News

    Charles goes for modern methods

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Leading traditionalist Prince Charles surprised the architectural world this week with plans for prefabricated homes on two of his existing developments.

  • Opinion

    Time is running out on carbon

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Time is running out on carbon challenge

  • Opinion

    Happy campers

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    What is Bill Gething on about? Center Parcs is at best only a model for itself and at worst traffic segregation at its most extreme; the very thing he argues against.

  • News

    Britain to outsource urbanism

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    The British approach to urban design is set to be franchised out to China, Korea, Canada and the new urbanists in America.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Turner surpriseAt the Core Cities Summit in Leeds last week Dermot Finch, director of the IPPR’s Centre for Cities, revealed how John Prescott likes to try to boost morale at the ODPM. According to Finch, Prescott arrived on stage at an event in London to the strains of Tina Turner’s ...

  • News

    Salford in bloom

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas this week revealed designs to turn Salford into a “beautiful” garden city.

  • News

    The Met blogger

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Student Richard Ceccanti’s online journal documents a turbulent year at London Met

  • Beadle: “Devastated” at decision.
    News

    Greenside replacement blocked

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Owner who illegally demolished modernist gem vows to fight refusal for new home following public inquiry

  • News

    Birmingham plan lays Rogers library to rest

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Birmingham City Council has finally ended months of speculation over the future of a new library project in the city, announcing that the library will now be split across two sites, one in the city centre and an archive in Eastside.

  • Opinion

    The best medicine for hospital

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    A huge amount of discussion, debate and anguish has been lavished on “design quality” in public procurement. Just last week, BD reported on Cabe’s latest concerns about the Lift (Local Investment Finance Trust) initiative.

  • News

    The battle between David and the Goliaths

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Hugh Broughton Architects has only eight architects, but beat two of Britain’s most prestigious practices — Hopkins Architects and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands — to design the Antarctic research station.

  • Opinion

    Bath is bubbling

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    I was distinctly unimpressed by Thom Gorst’s review of the sixth-year work at the University of Bath (Culture July 8).

  • Barrier to understanding
    News

    Barrier to understanding

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Is city centre regeneration failing Britain’s muslims?We visited the Leeds suburbs of Holbeck and Beeston, home to three of the London suicide bombers, to find a community isolated by dereliction.

  • News

    Prescott backs Vauxhall Tower

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Broadway Malyan’s highly controversial Vauxhall Tower has won the official backing of the deputy prime minister and will now go ahead.

  • News

    John Lewis attacks Selfridges flagship Birmingham store

    2005-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Retail giant John Lewis has struck out at upmarket rival Selfridges’ approach to architecture, criticising the chain’s striking Birmingham flagship designed by Future Systems.