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All Building Design articles in 24 June 2005 – Page 2
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Opinion
Soapbox: We need to get our houses in order
This week, Policy Exchange published a new report, Unaffordable Housing — Fables and Myths. It argues that, far from living in the kind of homes we aspire to, the British have some of the worst housing in Europe.
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News
Irish gallery tipped for Stirling Prize
An art gallery in Ireland drew the most admiring glances at the RIBA awards last Friday, as Cork Lewis Gluckman gallery at the University became an early frontrunner for the Stirling Prize.
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NewsFarrells sea view
Terry Farrell & Partners has revealed designs for an £80 million seafront development in Weymouth.
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News
Flooding Eden
A team including BDP is aiming to recreate the Garden of Eden in war-torn Iraq.BDP’s head of sustainability, Trevor Butler, has won a competition with three Canadian architects of Iraqi origin — Sahar Rassam, Riadh Tappuni and Sal Tappuni — and Canadian Richard Kroeker to design a research centre and ...
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Opinion
Inclusive dispair
I agree, in part at least, with Mat Fraser’s comment on architects and their lack of disability awareness in the application of design solutions. My experience is that the majority of architects have not grasped the concept of inclusive design — for example, the segregation of toilets for the “normal” ...
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Building StudyFirst Look: Ship shape design wins out
Hampshire architectural practice Format Milton has revealed images of its Bell House project — a secluded private dwelling.The £500,000 new-build scheme, which recently began on site in Bursledon, near Eastleigh, overlooks the River Hamble, the Solent and the Isle of Wight, and boasts a curving northern entrance facade made from ...
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News
Homebuyers not swayed by design
Only five per cent of house purchasers are influenced by the type and design of the dwelling, a study from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has revealed.
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News
...Teachers must be given more say in school design
The Private Finance Initiative must be transformed to allow teachers more say in the design of new schools, says a leading education advisory body.
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News
EH staff walk out over derisory pay deal
Nearly 500 members of English Heritage staff went on a summer solstice strike this week to protest against a “derisory” pay offer as well as the non-replacement of retiring staff.
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ReviewJohn Sell Cotman and me
Whenever I’m in Norwich, I visit the Norwich Castle Museum and sit in the John Sell Cotman gallery. The artist’s development is well presented through a series of sketches, prints and paintings. Like his watercolours, the etchings are very precise. It is their mastery of process that is so enjoyable ...
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Opinion
Core curriculum
Your article “Schools for Future scrutiny scrapped” (News June 10) created the misleading impression that the Department for Education & Skills was reducing its commitment to good design.The DfES is delivering an unprecedented amount of investment in schools — up from £683 million in 1996-7 to £5.5 billion in 2005-6 ...
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Opinion
Climate control
On to Trafalgar Square, where London mayor Ken Livingstone held a glittering photo call this week to mark the launch of the London Climate Change Agency. The great and good of the GLA lined up with business leaders wearing their best caring smiles and waited to be snapped in front ...
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NewsJubilee celebration
After a string of failed schemes, the Jubilee Gardens are all set for a long-awaited revamp.
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Opinion
London’s ripe for carbon testing
Cities now house half the world’s population. A century ago, it was one in seven. And the trend is set to continue, with the world’s major conurbations expanding at an unprecedented rate.
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OpinionBathtime bricks
It was great to see the Caruso St John Brick House in BD (Works May 27), and Irina Davidovici’s valuable commentary.Was Caruso St John consciously remembering Giancarlo De Carlo’s magnificent and extraordinary sixties villa, Ca’ Romanino, in the decoration of its bathroom?
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TechnicalEllipse of the art
Kim Wilke Associates’s stone spiral will be the centerpiece of the V&A’s new courtyard, says Amanda Birch
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