All Building Design articles in 23 September 2005 – Page 3

  • News

    Historic Lasdun archive damaged in RIBA’s care

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Institute’s capability as archive custodian is questioned after water damage revealed

  • 1.
    Features

    Architest

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    This week: Los Angeles

  • Opinion

    Why architecture can sell London

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    London has some of the most iconic buildings and public sites in the world. Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and Trafalgar Square are landmarks that have come to represent not just the capital, but Britain itself in the eyes of many visitors.

  • News

    Architects give segregation warning

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Commission for Racial Equality chairman Trevor Phillips said this week that Britain was in danger of “sleepwalking” into the kind of racial segregation seen recently in New Orleans.

  • Appointing the finger
    News

    Appointing the finger

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Sheppard Robson has won planning permission for a £25 million new building for The University of Manchester. The new building, to be known as AMPPS, will bring together the university’s astronomy, mathematics, physics and photon science departments.

  • Adjaye’s new Ideas
    News

    Adjaye’s new Ideas

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    David Adjaye’s Ideas Store on Whitechapel Road opened on Thursday. The Ideas Store is a new type of public library that aims to involve the whole community and offer opportunities for adult learning.

  • News

    Olympics won’t be about icons

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Focus will be on urban design

  • Opinion

    Why link 7/7 with Arb numbers?

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Being the MD of an architectural practice predominantly made up of “black and minority ethnics”, I was intrigued by your headline “Black designers could ‘help beat terror’” (News, 16 September).

  • Ightham Mote was developed and rebuilt over several centuries and the elevations date back to a number of historic periods. Above: The weathered rag stone walls of the gate tower date back to the 15th century.
    Building Study

    The 600-year-old time machine

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Interiors from the 1950s jostle with Victorian details in Stuart Page Architects’ painstaking restoration of Ightham Mote in Kent — the National Trust’s biggest restoration project of its type, which preserves architecture styles as far back at the Middle Ages

  • The sculpture’s LEDs project images, such as this positivity symbol, that can be seen by viewers’ peri-pheral vision as they look away from the light.
    Technical

    In detail 51: Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse, Heathrow Airport, London

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Light sculpture: Collaboration between light artist Chris Levine, architect Softroom and the Virgin Atlantic Airways design department