All Building Design articles in 25 February 2005 – Page 2

  • News

    Spotcheck - North east

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

  • Jason Bruges
    Technical

    I wish Id done that... surface

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Artist Jason Bruges on Buckminster Fuller’s futuristic dome surface

  • Opinion

    Deeplish revisited

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    The government has aired proposals to demolish thousands of houses in the North-west (News February 11).

  • Opinion

    Shaky concept

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    You’re having a right laugh this week, aren’t you (How we did IT February 18)? “Mathew Emmett’s aim is to integrate physical environments with ‘psycho-archi-ventions’.”

  • Architype’s  timber-framed housing , built to a high ecological specification.
    News

    Communes make comeback

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    The first new-build “co-housing” estate in the UK, featuring the largest-ever collection of solar panels used for a private scheme, is to officially open next month.

  • The glass and aluminium cases house  objects such as the skeletons of Charles Byrne  who was 7 foot 7 and Mr Jeffs who had a disease where his muscle turned into bone.
    Technical

    Skeletons out of the closet

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Walls of glass give the Hunterian Museum room to display its eerie exhibits

  • News

    Modern classic for meeting of minds

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Van Heyningen & Haward Architects has unveiled competition-winning designs for Oxford University’s new Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies.

  • News

    Zumthor takes key church job at Milan ‘city’

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is to design a new church at the heart of a 1.2 million sq m Foster & Partners masterplan in Milan, Italy.

  • Opinion

    Charles frets over health

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Prince Charles spoke at the Royal College of Physicians this week on the environment’s impact on health. Here is an edited version of his speech:It is imperative that we apply the notion of healing not only to ourselves, but also to our built and natural environments that have been so ...

  • News

    Castleford TV project criticised

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has defended its documentary on regeneration in Castleford following criticism by one of the project’s key architects.

  • News

    Gates closing at fortress Britain

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Architects are the latest group to feel the national crackdown on economic migrants, a BD investigation reveals

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Good vibrationsLast week, we learnt that architects are highly desirable as dates. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that an architecture student has built a model of an orgasm.Ronnie Gensler, from Columbia University in the US, “studied, subdivided and finally modelled an orgasm” in the form of an ...

  • News

    Zaha makes BMW office staff sweat

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid has been allowed to bend building regulations to ensure office workers in her latest project for BMW in Germany experience the same heat and lack of daylight as workers in the new car factory next door.

  • News

    Maggies Centres in blackmail row

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Charity forced to return Jerry Springer opera donation

  • Opinion

    Beware Hollywood’s measure of success

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    On Sunday, the 77th Annual Academy Awards take place.

  • Review

    Bathtime reflections

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    The relentless pace of Japanese life has inspired the work of Klein Dytham.

  • News

    Mayor trips up ballet school

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Proposals to extend the grade I listed Royal Ballet School in Richmond Park could go before a public inquiry after being rejected by London’s mayor.

  • Make’s Kite Tower: A matter of honesty.
    Opinion

    Seeing through the glass argument

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Ken Shuttleworth’s view (Soapbox February 18) that office buildings can be more energy efficient by reducing the glazed areas to 50% is absurdly simplistic.

  • Features

    Architest

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    This week: Books

  • News

    Humphrey Lloyd re-elected to Arb chair in landslide victory

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    High Court judge Humphrey Lloyd has been re-elected as Arb chairman with 10 votes to challenger Nicholas Tweddell’s one.