All Building Design articles in 25 January 2008 – Page 4
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NewsMile End brewery site to house flats
Chris Dyson Architects has won planning permission for this four- storey residential development in a conservation area in Mile End, east London.
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NewsBovis’s King goes to Candy & Candy
Former Bovis Lend Lease project commercial director Rod King has joined luxury developer and interior designer Candy & Candy as commercial director.
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Opinion
Bonus claims
The battle for Foster & Partners’ proposed “penny whistle” tower in the London suburb of Ealing moved to the local paper, the Ealing & Acton Gazette, last week, with a claim on its front page that the 40-storey skyscraper will cast a “TV broadcast shadow across a huge swathe of ...
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OpinionDrawn a blank
I leave it for others to judge how extraordinarily Benson & Forsyth’s The Pod in Nottingham has been “shaped in response to the world around it” (Works, January 18).
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News
Council relaunches Birmingham library project
The race to design the troubled £193 million Birmingham Library has begun after the city council published an advertisement in the Ojeu.
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Opinion
Bad counsel
I am appalled at the thought that planning appeals for smaller applications could be given to local councillors to decide (News January 18).
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NewsZaha in human rights row over Azerbaijan project
Soviet experts have criticised a cultural centre designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in memory of a former KGB chief and ruler of Azerbaijan.
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Opinion
Home and away
First on the list of architecture’s luvvies who signed a letter to the Guardian lamenting cuts to the British Council, funder of the biennale’s British pavilion, was ex-Design Museum boss Alice Rawsthorn, now on the board of the Arts Council — which has almost entirely dropped its architecture programme, and ...
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NewsArup Sport wins Singapore hub
Arup Sport has won the competition to design Singapore’s new “sports hub”, the world’s largest private-public sports project.
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OpinionThe art of making a quality judgment
If quality is to be judged rather than measured, the government must be ready to step beyond public opinion
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Review
The sound of architecture
As head of speech programming on BBC Radio 3, Abigail Appleton is used to tackling architecture in shows such as Night Waves. Here she talks to BD about her approach to the subject.
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News
Architecture schools to combine
Edinburgh’s two architecture schools are to join forces to create a “super-school”.
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ReviewThe New Architectural Pragmatism
Edited by William S Saunders, University of Minnesota Press, 218pp, PB, £12.
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OpinionIs Europan a real opportunity for architects in the UK?
Patently no, since no Europan entries have been built in England, says David Birkbeck; while Nick Johnson is confident that the tide is turning
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ReviewJoseph Bennett and Ron Arad discuss projects and projections at the RCA
Kester Rattenbury enjoys the latest in a series of RCA talks on the crossover in film and architecture
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News
Savaged Stratford scheme approved
A controversial Stock Woolstencroft scheme in Stratford, east London, has finally won planning permission despite being slammed twice by Cabe for being a potential blot on the Olympic landscape.
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ReviewAmenity Space puts architecture on the radio
Pamela Buxton profiles the pair behind Resonance FM's architecture show, Amenity Space. Plus, listen to three of their best broadcasts
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NewsHome from home M-hotel aims to end isolation of long-term guests
Architect Tim Pyne has unveiled his new concept in self-catering hotels, the M-hotel.
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NewsForeign Office redevelops Toulouse's Aerospace Valley
Foreign Office Architects, in a joint venture with developer Altarea-Cogedim, has seen off competition from OMA and Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners for this £450 million, 40ha, mixed-use project in Toulouse’s Aerospace Valley.
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