All Building Design articles in 23 June 2006 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    Generation game

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    I have just visited Poundbury for the first time and let me assure Bryan Perry (Letters June 9) that I tried to look at it with an unprejudiced eye.

  • Frostrup: Architecture’s agony aunt?
    News

    Frostrup on Stirling jury

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Broadcaster and journalist Mari-ella Frostrup is the lay member of the jury for this year's Stirling Prize. Frostrup is currently known as an agony aunt columnist in the Observer and for her friendship with Hollywood star George Clooney. Her fellow jurors will include architects Ian Ritchie and Peter Cook.

  • Opinion

    Music expresses the soul of Sheffield

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    So BD and Architecture Foundation's Architecture Rocks competition approaches its climax. It is an event in the long tradition of relating architecture to music. From Wittkower's treatise on Renaissance architecture, harmony and proportion, to Libeskind's use of Schoenberg to inform the Jewish Museum, people have tried to forge links between ...

  • Technical

    I wish I'd done that... Timber structure

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Matthew Wells on the equestrian centre, Flyinge Kungsgarden, Sweden

  • Student Jesse Randzio pre-assembling the pavilion components.
    Technical

    On the cutting room floor

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The AA student summer pavilion is a work of fractal geometry in wood. Elaine Knutt tells us how they did it

  • David Morley
    Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    This week - David Morley

  • News

    Mayor's Crystal Palace housing plans under fire

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Ken Livingstone has come under fire from protestors over plans for luxury apartments in the redevelopment of Crystal Palace Park.

  • “Trust me, I’m an architect,” proclaimed Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano’s t-shirts.
    News

    Crowds flock to drive

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    "Trust me, I'm an architect," proclaimed Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano's t-shirts.

  • Norman Conquest
    Opinion

    Norman Conquest

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    I expect every stout-hearted architectural yeoman now flying the flag of St George to vote for me

  • How BD revealed London’s new design job earlier this year.
    News

    Livingstone confirms design post

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    London mayor Ken Livingstone this week confirmed plans to appoint a powerful design director for the capital as part of his vision to make the city a "world leader" in architecture and urban planning.

  • News

    Win a trip to New York in photograph competition

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The 10th annual Zumtobel Lighting photography competition is offering architects a chance to win a trip to New York. It's open to everyone, and you don't have to be an experienced photographer to take part.

  • Opinion

    Commonwealth: a duty to demolish

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    There is no viable future for the Commonwealth Institute. It should be demolished. Armchair aesthetes seem unaware of the raison-d'etre of the Commonwealth.

  • News

    Foster to look at Commonwealth Institute

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The Commonwealth Institute's trustees' quest to cash in on their listed Kensington site continues with the surprise announcement they have been working with Foster & Partners on a planning application "for some months".

  • A pharmaceutical research facility for Valletta, Malta, by David Eland.
    Review

    Territorial claims

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Peter Wilson kicks off BD's 2006 student summer show coverage with a look at the architectural talent emerging from Edinburgh

  • Phillips: will not renounce the BNP
    News

    Phillips sparks rule change

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    BNP revelation could lead to future RIBA presidential candidates having to declare politics and backers

  • News

    No reason to stand down, says candidate

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Peter Phillips has pledged to fight on in the race to become RIBA president despite widespread controversy over revelations that he is a member of the BNP.

  • Opinion

    Business as usual

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    You report (News June 9) that an unnamed DoH source and the man who is actually no longer responsible for the schools programme have "rejected" the RIBA's Smart PFI initiative. Small earthquake, not many dead, then.

  • News

    Broadway Malyan to revamp Stoke college

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Broadway Malyan has beaten a shortlist including BDP and Nightingale Associates to design a £44 million revamp of Stoke-on-Trent College.

  • Permanent resident: Brown
    Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

  • News

    RIBA lines up big names for Stratford footbridge

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Ian Ritchie, Wilkinson Eyre and Spence Associates are among the architects on the shortlist for a proposed "world-class" bridge in Stratford-upon-Avon.