All Building Design articles in 23 March 2007 – Page 2

  • Ellis Woodman
    News

    ‘In London, the issues raised have vital local resonance’

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    It is a measure of the extraordinary scale of Ricky Burdett’s Venice show that fitting it into the largest exhibition venue in London has required some radical pruning.

  • Fragile Seams
    Review

    Hot tips

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Grassed up

  • Branson Coates' 1989 entry to the Tokyo Forum competition
    Features

    A touch of Tuscan hill town for Tokyo

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Branson Coates 1989 competition entry for the Tokyo Forum is the subject of this week's archive selection

  • Opinion

    Good for Gummer

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Registrar Alison Carr’s defence of Arb is nonsense.

  • Howe Dell also has a wind turbine, photovoltaic and solar panels, and a recyclable aluminium roof.
    Technical

    Going underground

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    When it opens in September, Howe Dell Primary School in Hatfield will be the first UK building to use an interseasonal heat transfer system to store summer heat for use in winter.

  • Nigel Hugill
    News

    Lend Lease goes talent spotting

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Olympic village developers looking for 40 ‘world class’ architects

  • Opinion

    Wrath of God

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    As the campaign against two proposed KPF towers in Victoria gathers steam, there’s more worrying news for Land Securities.

  • News

    London go-ahead for Koolhaas

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas has received planning permission for his first building in the City of London, a new headquarters for the investment bank NM Rothschild.

  • Opinion

    Rude gesture

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    I found your story “Academies pay price for ‘architectural gestures’” (March 2) highly misleading.

  • News

    Heritage fund will lose out

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    The government has said the Heritage Lottery Fund will lose more than £160 million of funding between 2009 and 2012 because of the spiralling cost of the 2012 Olympics — now £9.3 billion.

  • News

    Istanbul surprise front runner

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Istanbul is the surprise leader in the race to win the award for the Academy of Urbanism’s European City of the Year 2007.

  • The land sold by Jimmy Godden will now be part of a larger masterplan.
    News

    Foster takes over at Folkestone

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    A huge seaside regeneration project by Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has been scrapped and will be replaced by a Foster & Partners scheme following a controversial land deal.

  • Amanda Birch
    Technical

    Small firms lead the way

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    There is plenty to be excited about at the recent Ecobuild exhibition

  • Opinion

    In the family way

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Congratulations to Dominic Papa of Studio 333 who becomes a member of Cabe’s design review panel – a panel which is actually bigger than Cabe was when it launched eight years ago.

  • Opinion

    Fair objections

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    I don’t agree with Piers Gough (Debate March 9) that the public is encouraged to object to all applications regardless of the facts. Our local amenity society has over 1,200 members and none, as far as I know, is rabidly reactionary or nauseatingly self-righteous.

  • News

    HOK Sport scheme sets example

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Housing minister Yvette Cooper has described HOK Sport’s Ashburton Triangle regeneration scheme (pictured) as an example for the Olympics.

  • Craig White
    Technical

    I wish i’d done that...

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Dun Troddan Broch, Near Glenelg, Scotland

  • Ian Martin
    Opinion

    Lunch with Norman proves hard to digest

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    This week from Ian Martin...

  • Opinion

    Local democracy

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    I completely agree with Piers Gough, nimbyism having become the strongest influence on decision making by local authority planning committees.

  • News

    Essex man gets culture

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Ash Sakula, Flaqc, Hawkins Brown and Trevor Horne Architects have unveiled these designs for a new cultural quarter in Colchester.