All Building Design articles in 23 November 2007 – Page 2

  • Embarrassment of riches: one of the many models on display is this one of the Pompidou Centre and and the public space in front.
    Review

    In his pomp: Rogers' Paris retrospective reviewed

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    The Pompidou, designed by Richard Rogers 30 years ago, is a fitting host for a major retrospective of his remarkable career, says Kester Rattenbury

  • News

    Hampshire pavilions

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has received planning permission for this £9 million office development in Southampton.

  • Opinion

    It's a gas

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    I am delighted that the work of my former tutors, Isi Metzstein and Andy MacMillan, is being celebrated at Glasgow’s Lighthouse (Culture November 9).

  • Opinion

    Eyes on the prize

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    By focusing on the spat between EH and Piers Gough, we are in danger of overlooking the real issue in the debate over the redevelopment at Smithfield.

  • Opinion

    Waste of energy

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    The promotion of energy assessment as a quasi-profession rather than as a function of a proper profession is both a government-sponsored job creation scheme and a logistical failure.

  • Ebbsfleet International is designed using a lot of glass so that passengers can easily see where they are going at all times.
    News

    Ebbsfleet is go for Eurostar

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    This week the first Eurostar trains left for Paris from the £100 million Ebbsfleet International Station.

  • Q121: form follows function
    Technical

    I wish i’d done that

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Q121 Building Farnborough, Hampshire

  • Opinion

    Top dog

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    The Liverpool stadium a dog? (Letters November 16) Liverpudlians have already taken it to their hearts.

  • Opinion

    Divide and rule

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    I’m not sure how Piers Gough has come to the conclusion that Cabe should deal with what is new, while English Heritage should only deal with what is old.

  • News

    Design for London responds with list

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Design for London is set to establish its first framework agreement of preferred architects, director Peter Bishop told the London Assembly this week.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Refurb deserves top design

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Pimlico School’s demolition may be unstoppable, but there are serious questions over the quality of its replacement

  • “A second Blitz”: although London’s South Bank, seen here from Hungerford Bridge, survived the second world war, this 1836 brewery was demolished in 1951 to make way for the Festival Hall.
    Review

    The urban degenerated

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Britain's Lost Cities, Gavin Stamp’s latest collection of essays on post-war British architecture is a sobering read, says Ken Powell

  • News

    Milton Court down, Make goes up

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    City of London planners this week assented to the demolition of Milton Court, the oldest part of the Barbican complex.

  • Marcus Fairs
    Opinion

    Floored by the council’s street works

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    We know the built environment is about more than buildings, but councils just don’t get it

  • Hanada's winning design for the expansion of Stockholm's library
    News

    German firm wins Stockholm contest

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    German architect Heike Hanada has beaten thousands of competitors to design a £60 million extension to Gunnar Asplund’s iconic public library in Stockholm.

  • Opinion

    Chunnel vision

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    The adoring press that has greeted the new St Pancras might be about to turn.

  • Simpson hotel: “a backdrop to  the historic grain of Glasgow”.
    News

    Simpson checks into Scotland

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Planning granted despite Architecture & Design Scotland’s opposition to the firm’s 160-room Glasgow hotel development

  • News

    Theatre designer celebrated

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Theatre designer Frank Matcham (1854–1920) was commemorated yesterday, (Thursday) with an English Heritage blue plaque outside the home he lived in for nine years in Crouch End, London.

  • Tim Dolby (left) and Paul Vonberg underneath a prototype ceiling with the crinkle crankle design.
    Technical

    Dancing on the ceiling

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    An architect and a designer are reviving the lost art of ceiling decoration

  • Features

    Poundbury plotters captured

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Prince Charles and two of his pet architects photographed at the Poundbury public exhibition in 1989