All Building Design articles in 23 June 2006 – Page 3

  • Opinion

    Best is yet to come

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Peter Carolin's arguments in favour of the demolition of the Commonwealth Institute (Opinion June 16) evade the issue which is upsetting conservationists and ought to alarm even those neutral about the building.

  • Main elevation of Benson & Forsyth’s design for the £6 million visitor centre.
    News

    Benson & Forsyth wins Beamish competition

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Benson & Forsyth has won the competition to design a £6 million visitor centre for the Beamish museum in County Durham.

  • News

    BBC looks to salvage design reputation

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The BBC has hired a hit squad of design experts to try and salvage its damaged reputation as a good client after the sacking of Richard MacCormac last year.

  • The 4,000sq m building has facades of finely stacked pre-cast concrete and a vertical emphasis engaging the 18th and 19th century, as well as the storey-height proportions of Saugey towers.
    News

    Sergison Bates wins Geneva competition

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    British practice Sergison Bates has won a competition with Swiss architect Jean-Paul Jaccard to design a new residential block in the Saint Gervais District of Geneva.

  • CZWG and Holder Mathias have designed the £180 million Barnsley Markets development.
    News

    Barnsley's emerging market

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    CZWG and Holder Mathias have designed the £180 million Barnsley Markets development.

  • Opinion

    Phillips' BNP links are toxic, but no bar

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Should political affiliation be a bar to becoming president of the RIBA? This is the only question that is worth asking a week after it emerged that Peter Phillips, one of three candidates for the presidency, is a member of the British National Party.

  • Biennale sheep: clearly suffering.
    Opinion

    Baah-baric stunt

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Judging by my excitement and others' at the Rogers/Piano spectacle of herding sheep across the "wobbly" bridge, it was clear that we were "townies" and hadn't seen sheep alive at close quarters before. However, when I noticed the protestors, I started to think about the whole concept.

  • C
    Features

    Architest

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    This week: Architecture and sex

  • Staircase hall of Gothick Villa (1991) in London’s Regents Park, by Quinlan and Francis Terry.
    Review

    Arch enemies

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    David Watkin's Quinlan Terry anthology is still fighting an architectural battle that is long since over

  • Robert Adams Architects’ Piccadilly front
    News

    Adams and modernists Make friends

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    He once described modernists as "Martians", but now neo-classicist Robert Adam appears content to work with such aliens, following an extraordinary collaboration with Make.

  • News

    Treasury: take whole life costs into account

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The Treasury is to usher in a new era of high-quality public buildings by forcing government departments, local authorities and quangos to avoid the cheapest procurement option.

  • Multimedia

    Open House Contemporary Episode 4

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Listen to young architects Stephen Witherford and William Mann, runners-up in BD's Young Architect of the Year Award 2005, on designing Amnesty International UK's new headquarters and how the experience informed their social housing projects in the Lower Lea Valley and Stonebridge Park.

  • News

    Pick of the day, Saturday June 24: Sunand Prasad on Patrick Hodgkinson

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Riba presidential candidate Sunand Prasad chooses Patrick Hodgkinson's 4pm lecture on the Brunswick Centre as his pick of the day's events

  • News

    DoH scraps £167m Colchester hospital

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    PFI for hospitals has taken another body blow with the shock cancellation of the £167 million campus planned for Colchester.