All Building Design articles in 26 November 2010 – Page 2

  • Peter Bishop
    News

    Mayor warned: London is being privatised

    2010-11-26T14:20:00Z

    Committee investigating trend for developers to control public realm

  • Custom House station uses off-site construction to cut costs.
    News

    Crossrail architects engineer big savings

    2010-11-26T14:00:00Z

    Architects working on Crossrail’s eight central London stations have achieved £300 million worth of savings as part of a “value-engineering” drive demanded by the government

  • Paul Finch, Chairman of CABE
    News

    Cabe set to be rescued by communities dept

    2010-11-26T11:00:00Z

    Downsized design watchdog would be expected to further government’s localism agenda

  • Competitions

    Total Housing: Apartments

    2010-11-26T09:59:00Z

    The city is resurgent after years of suburban supremacy, but new technologies and socio-economic shifts have made traditional models for urban housing obsolete.

  • Wilkinson Eyre’s Guangzhou tower.
    News

    Wilkinson Eyre looks to expand China work

    2010-11-26T09:10:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre is planning to use its recently completed Guangzhou International Finance Centre tower scheme as the launch pad for more work in China.The firm has been working in the country for the past five years and in spring opened its first office there in Shanghai.Co-partner Jim Eyre told BD ...

  • Andrew Stunell
    News

    Government and Arb rebuff part II campaign

    2010-11-26T09:00:00Z

    A campaigner battling for those with a part II qualification to be able to call themselves architects has pledged to continue fighting after both the government and the Arb rebuffed his attempt to force reform

  • The plans for Convoys Wharf.
    News

    Aedas files contentious Gateway scheme

    2010-11-26T08:40:00Z

    Designs by Aedas for one of the Thames Gateway’s biggest regeneration schemes have been submitted for planning

  • Squire & Partners mixed-use scheme in Piccadilly, London.
    News

    Squire & Partners submits Piccadilly plans

    2010-11-26T08:23:00Z

    Squire & Partners has submitted plans to Westminster City Council for a mixed-use scheme in Piccadilly, London.

  • Buckley Gray Yoeman's development on Commercial Road
    News

    Council backs Buckley Gray Yeoman east London student scheme

    2010-11-26T08:23:00Z

    Tower Hamlets Council has approved an 11,000sq m mixed-use development in east London by Buckley Gray Yeoman.

  • Oliver Chapman Architects has completed the second phase of a housing scheme in the Scottish Borders
    News

    Oliver Chapman completes Borders housing scheme

    2010-11-26T08:20:00Z

    Oliver Chapman Architects has completed the second phase of a housing scheme in the Scottish Borders

  • Ellis Woodman - editor
    Opinion

    The arts are built to last

    2010-11-26T07:00:00Z

    Though funding prospects look bleak, recent investments in architecture will help arts bodies weather the storm

  • Opinion

    Winning ways

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Wouldn’t it be easier to describe all CIAT, Riba degree-level candidates as apprentice architects?

  • MVRDV’s design for the centre of Gwanggyo new town in South Korea.
    Review

    New towns and politics

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    A conference examined the role new towns play in housing the world’s growing urban population

  • Abercrombie Plan communities map, created in 1942.
    Review

    Utopia London

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    A documentary on London County Council’s post-war legacy celebrates a revolutionary zeal unknown today

  • Community input: Wick Village Estate, east London.
    Opinion

    Local planning

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Cabe chairman Paul Finch is on shaky ground in arguing that “anything in the built environment we admire had nothing to do with local communities putting in their ideas on design” (bdonline November 15)

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    On leading northern lights

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Low winter sun presents particular challenges for architects working in northern climes

  • Opinion

    Memory lane

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    I enjoyed Owen Hatherley’s urban trawl (November 12) and look forward to the rest

  • Part of London & Quadrant and Telford Homes’ proposal for the site.
    Opinion

    Surveying Robin Hood’s riches

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    As a member of the Twentieth Century Society, I deplore the statement on last week’s front page by its spokesman, condemning architects bidding for the Robin Hood Gardens site

  • The architect of Heathrow airport and Liverpool's cathedral also designed his own treehouse
    Features

    Green living

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    The architect of Heathrow airport and Liverpool’s cathedral also designed his own treehouse

  • Opinion

    Empty promises

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    I am one of the remaining leaseholders on the Heygate Estate