All Building Design articles in 23 July 2010 – Page 2

  • American Institute of Architects Billings Index
    News

    Architecture billings fail to recover in US

    2010-07-26T09:12:00Z

    The Architecture Billings Index has failed to bounce back from a sharp fall in May as demand for architectural services in the US continues to decline.

  • The Edison
    News

    Adjaye's first offices near completion

    2010-07-26T06:20:00Z

    David Adjaye’s first stand-alone office development in the UK is nearing completion.

  • Kohn Pedersen Fox’s 60 Holborn Viaduct
    News

    Kohn Pedersen Fox’s 60 Holborn Viaduct

    2010-07-26T05:18:00Z

    Work to market Kohn Pedersen Fox’s 60 Holborn Viaduct has resumed more than two years after planning consent was granted.

  • Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt
    News

    DCMS plans superquango by merging Cabe and EH

    2010-07-23T15:30:00Z

    Plans to merge Cabe and English Heritage into a superquango are being drawn up by the government under radical cost-cutting measures.

  • Studio Weave’s Longest  Bench at Littlehampton.
    News

    Government to wind up Sea Change programme

    2010-07-23T09:00:00Z

    The coalition government is scrapping the Sea Change initiative introduced three years ago by the previous Labour regime to revamp rundown seaside resorts.

  • Jamie Fobert - originally won the competition to redevelop the Cambridge modern art gallery in 2004
    News

    Fobert’s Kettle’s Yard scheme set for planning

    2010-07-23T08:30:00Z

    Jamie Fobert Architects’ long-awaited £3.5 million redevelopment of a Cambridge modern art gallery will go for planning in September, six years after the firm won a high-profile competition to extend the venue.

  • Chapman Taylor’s revised design
    News

    ‘Risky’ Miralles replaced in Leeds

    2010-07-23T08:00:00Z

    Chapman Taylor’s revised design for a £350 million Leeds shopping centre has been attacked by the architects the firm replaced.

  • Atkins’ proposal.
    News

    Jestico & Whiles redesigns Swiss clock following protests

    2010-07-23T07:30:00Z

    Jestico & Whiles has radically redrawn a controversial new landmark for London’s Leicester Square after Atkins’ original proposal was withdrawn following criticism from heritage groups and the police.

  • Edward Cullinan film centre in the frame
    News

    Edward Cullinan film centre in the frame

    2010-07-23T04:13:00Z

    Edward Cullinan Architects has been given planning for a state-of-the-art film storage centre in Warwickshire for the BFI.

  • The proposed scheme by Article 25
    News

    Architect in charity battle for Article 25

    2010-07-23T00:15:00Z

    An architect hoping to win a year working on a volunteer project in Sierra Leone for architecture charity Article 25 now faces an online battle to secure her placement.

  • Olympic Stadium - aerial view of completed Olympic Stadium roof
    News

    Olympic authority reveals details of £56,000 expenses

    2010-07-23T00:10:00Z

    Memory sticks, Christmas cards and cups of coffee were among the items claimed on expenses by senior figures at the Olympic Delivery Authority last year.

  • Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi Museum of Art in Rom
    News

    Museums dominate Stirling contenders

    2010-07-23T00:05:00Z

    The RIBA has announced the shortlist for this year’s Stirling prize, which is dominated by cultural buildings. Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi Museum of Art in Rome is the bookies’ favourite to win the £20,000 prize.

  • Opinion

    Be professional

    2010-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Glancey is heading in the right direction when he argues that we should redesign the planners, though I would go the next step and redesign the planning system

  • News

    RIBA president named on Monday

    2010-07-23T00:00:00Z

    The next president of the RIBA is due to be named next week. Angela Brady, Richard Parnaby and Roger Shrimplin are all bidding to succeed current incumbent Ruth Reed

  • The east concourse canopy in the foreground and the west concourse canopy to the rear.
    Technical

    Nunawading station, Melbourne

    2010-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Grimshaw used prefabricated steel units to provide high-speed construction without disrupting services from a suburban Melbourne station

  • Caruso St John’s exhibition designs show fitted wooden cabinets.
    Review

    Permanently Magical

    2010-07-23T00:00:00Z

    A new exhibition shows the latest attempt to renew Sir John Soane’s Museum

  • Opinion

    Less is more

    2010-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Glancey is stuck in the past

  • Run, Janet, run: the children join the free schools initiative.
    Opinion

    Janet & Michael

    2010-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Architects should ask themselves why the government is trying to press its free schools policy through with indecent haste

  • Opinion

    Hitting home

    2010-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Royal Star & Garter Homes’ withdrawal from Gladedale and Network Rail’s proposed mixed development scheme at Hampton Court Station (News July 16) comes as little surprise to those of us in the local community who, since early 2004, have questioned the wisdom of the running down and eventual closure of ...

  • Kapoor’s tower gets the go-ahead
    News

    Kapoor’s tower gets the go-ahead

    2010-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Anish Kapoor’s £19 million steel tower (pictured) for the Olympic site has been given the green light by Newham Council this week