All Building Design articles in 25 March 2011 – Page 3

  • Vivien Duffield
    News

    Practices benefit from philanthropist's millions

    2011-03-25T07:15:00Z

    Vivien Duffield hands out £8.2 million for cultural projects.

  • News

    Mecanoo’s library is disgraceful, says Madin

    2011-03-25T07:10:00Z

    The architect behind the doomed 1970s Birmingham library has attacked Mecanoo’s replacement scheme which has condemned it to the wrecking ball.

  • Foster & Partners' bank in Rabat. Photo by Nigel Young
    News

    Fosters completes first projects in Africa

    2011-03-25T07:10:00Z

    Third building in Morocco will be completed later this year

  • Paul Finch, Chairman of CABE
    News

    Cabe set to sell advice overseas

    2011-03-25T07:10:00Z

    Quango to tell foreign governments how to set up design watchdogs

  • Saved: the rare 1970s bungalows by architects Robin Spence and Robin Webster
    News

    Spence & Webster Belsize bungalows saved by planners

    2011-03-25T07:05:00Z

    A pair of rare 1970s bungalows by architects Robin Spence and Robin Webster have been saved after a north London council turned down plans to redevelop the site.

  • Walthamstow plaza space
    News

    Public consulted again on Walthamstow plans

    2011-03-25T07:00:00Z

    A public consultation on plans to redevelop Walthamstow Stadium that was abandoned amid allegations of intimidation is back on.

  • Fran Tonkiss
    Opinion

    Landlords like Gaddafi won’t drop rents

    2011-03-25T06:55:00Z

    New squatting laws and benefit cuts aren’t going to make the private rental sector effective

  • Opinion

    Surface tensions

    2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Make’s 5 Broadgate scheme for Swiss bank UBS (News March 18) shows how hard it is to achieve Ken Shuttleworth’s insistence on no more than 30-40% glazing, which is what we should all be trying to achieve.

  • Opinion

    Rural practices

    2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

    lan Deacon’s recommendation to students to read The Honeywood File (and follow it up, presumably, with The Honeywood Settlement) (Letters March 18) reminded me of another pair of books I must transfer from bookshelf to travel bag.

  • Opinion

    Time to mix it up

    2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Converting commercial rights to residential rights will not produce successful regeneration, only another residential district demanding inefficient and duplicated services and where transport and energy mistakes of the past are repeated (“Turn redundant high streets into housing says think-tank” bdonline, March 21).

  • BD March 11
    Opinion

    Residents are living proof

    2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

    While I agreed with much of your leader “Local identity is the least of it” (March 11), it unfortunately concluded with the usual inaccurate criticisms levelled at housebuilders.

  • Concrete Boot
    News

    Opportunity Knox

    2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

    The latest architectural gossip

  • Opinion

    Under invested?

    2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

    So, as Sir Fred may have advised, RMJM has packed all its debt (ie current financial situation) into the issue of new shares which it will then sell to its own staff (bdonline March 16).

  • Is there still a place for high street hubs?
    Opinion

    Should we turn run-down high streets into housing?

    2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Alex Morton, shopping and living patterns have changed; while Elizabeth Cox thinks they need to remain the hub of the community

  • Opinion

    Never forget

    2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

    How pleasing were the days when the AA chairman, like Hannibal, could mount elephants (Archive, March 18). Much of the credit goes to the charismatic and riotously funny Phil Hudson, then of the AA Student Union.

  • News

    This week's ups and downs

    2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Hot or not

  • Concrete Boot
    News

    A slight delay

    2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

    The latest architectural gossip

  • PRP's zero carbon Greenwatt development
    News

    The 'green' budget?

    2011-03-24T14:28:00Z

    What does the change in zero-carbon definititions mean for architects?

  • Concrete Boot
    News

    Well connected

    2011-03-24T14:20:00Z

    The latest architectural gossip

  • RIBA's London HQ
    News

    RIBA Trust rises from the ashes

    2011-03-24T13:23:00Z

    The RIBA Trust has been reborn and renamed the British Architectural Board.