All Building Design articles in 22 September 2006 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    Corrections

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Amendments to last weeks Building Design

  • News

    Council defends costs of Sloane Square consulting

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    A third public consultation on Stanton Williams Architects’ ambitious plans to redevelop London’s Sloane Square has been defended by the local council after it emerged that it had already spent almost three-quarters of a million pounds on the two previous exercises.

  • News

    Class not colour, says Prasad

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers’ call for ‘positive action’ to encourage more diversity is contested by RIBA president-elect

  • Review

    Chilled-out entertainers

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    An exhibition on the workplace reminds Ellie Duffy of a certain D Brent

  • News

    Curtain call

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    This striking temporary structure in Liverpool has been designed by the Office for Subversive Architecture.

  • News

    Green future for Bristol factory

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Architect Acanthus Ferguson Mann and developer Urban Splash have revealed plans to transform a power-hungry tobacco factory into one of the most sustainable large-scale residential schemes yet seen.

  • News

    Southwold scheme is brewing

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Ash Sakula architects has received planning permission for this high-density scheme to redevelop a former Adnams brewery distribution site at Southwold in Suffolk.The proposals include a specialist wine and kitchenware shop, a cafe and a mix of 34 houses and flats around a new public square.The architecture is intended to ...

  • Conran: grand but not old enough.
    Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    This week from Concrete Boots

  • Review

    On the bookshelf

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    New book releases this week...

  • Opinion

    DSDHA not bitter

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    It seems to me that your enthusiastic salvo across the bows of the GLA’s Architecture & Urbanism Unit has gone wide of the mark.

  • Opinion

    Bird solution

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Further to your article on “Watch the Birdie” (News August 11), we can offer a few tried and tested methods of avoiding birds perching on buildings and the inevitable mess.

  • Review

    A brutal beauty

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    A new book demonstrates how St Petersburg’s history of suffering is matched by an extraordinary civic pride.

  • News

    Panel backs Ken over rise in new homes

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Plans by London mayor Ken Livingstone to increase the number of new homes built in the capital from 23,000 a year to 30,650 have been backed by an independent panel of experts.

  • News

    Jencks Award recognises Hadid’s contribution

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid has won this year’s Jencks Award, giving her international profile yet another boost.

  • Opinion

    AUU did not give East an easy ride

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Your article “Design jobs for the boys?” (News Analysis September 15) misrepresents and miscontextualises my comments.

  • News

    Designers set up group to fight BDP’s Archway plan plans

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Britain’s largest architectural practice, BDP, is facing opposition from architects and designers over a framework for the Archway area of north London.

  • Features

    Architest

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    This week: Architects and fashion

  • Opinion

    Why foot Arb bill?

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    The debate revolves around the agreement by the board to at last systematically address one of its core functions (and the one which made the retention of registration attractive to the profession in 1997). That is protection of title. But why should protection of title be established at the cost ...

  • News

    Arb failed to prevent ‘evil architect’ errors

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    A direct appeal by the Architects Registration Board for national newspapers to avoid abuse of title has failed after a string of broadsheet and tabloid titles wrongly labelled a convicted sex attacker an “architect”.

  • News

    New team for The Public upsets Alsop

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Will Alsop expressed alarm this week after it was revealed that a firm of local architects has been appointed to complete his flagship arts building The Public.