All Building Design articles in 26 September 2008 – Page 3

  • Cutaway section through roof, wall and south deck
    Building Study

    In detail: El Ray, Dungeness

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    El Ray, Dungeness - Architect: Simon Conder Architects, Structural engineer: Fluid

  • Opinion

    Flair despair

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Touring several architects’ own houses during Open House this weekend, it is obvious that there is a lot of talent out there, much of which has been strangled by planners.

  • The home will be built among a group of protected trees, with several of the oaks incorporated into the terraces.
    News

    Western Design’s Dorset house is heaven for ‘tree huggers’

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Western Design Architects has been granted planning permission to build an £800,000 “tree house” within a conservation area in Beaminster, west Dorset.

  • “His theme is that we are in a period when design as a great, organising, industrial discipline is in parodic decline. Fatigued by excess and redundancy, consumers seek value in abstracts. Meanwhile, designers make big-ticket one-offs.”
    Review

    Design polyglot speaks up

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Deyan Sudjic is well placed to contribute to the debate on the future of design, says Stephen Bayley

  • Bacon self-portrait: for the AF?
    Opinion

    What’s cooking?

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Was it Brian Clarke, chairman of the Architecture Foundation, who came up with its next lecture series on the painter Francis Bacon, whose retrospective has just opened at Tate Britain?

  • The 250 homes are part of a £300 million project on Teesside.
    News

    Urban Splash and Muse launch homes competition

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Urban Splash today joins forces with Muse Developments to launch a competition.

  • Broadway Malyan’s sixth-form college for Stoke-on-Trent.
    News

    Go-ahead for Stoke college

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Broadway Malyan has won outline planning permission for this £24 million sixth-form college in Stoke-on-Trent.

  • News

    Museum revives old officer club

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Stanton Williams was this week announced as the winner of an international competition to transform a bomb-damaged former officers’ club into new space for one of Berlin’s most prominent museums.

  • Bill Mitchell
    Opinion

    Classic designs put politics in a spin

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    What hidden messages lie in the architecture of the stages for the US presidential contest?

  • Our role is to have that honest conversation about what’s likely to happen on the ground - Bob Kerslake
    News

    Public sector must wake up to crisis, says housing chief

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    The government’s new housing and regeneration agency leader has warned public sector clients to wake up to the credit crunch, saying it could be “significantly worse than the early 1990s”.

  • Lancashire County Cricket Club
    News

    Lancashire CC designs revealed

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    BDP has unveiled its design to redevelop Lancashire County Cricket Club’s 150-year-old home at Old Trafford, Manchester.

  • Opinion

    Cabe criteria need quality too

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Following my letter (September 12) about Cabe criteria, I should like to point out two puzzling contradictions in last week’s Opinion piece by Cabe deputy chairman Paul Morrell.

  • Features

    Remembrance of building slumps past

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    As the economy moves towards recession, BD remembers a previous Labour government grappling with the same issue

  • News

    Buckingham fills sustainable role

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Richard Buckingham has joined BDP as head of sustainability.

  • News

    Music box is clad in rubber quilt

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Carey Jones Architects’ music studio and practice facility for the University of Sheffield has been completed.

  • Niemeyer: major figure.
    Opinion

    Book misquoted?

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    In his review of Styliane Philippou’s Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence (Culture September 12), Richard Weston apparently follows Philippou’s lead in lumping me together with “detractors” of the Brasilian architect.

  • Parliament Square concept
    News

    Here’s the design Boris binned

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    This is how Parliament Square would have looked under radical designs by Hawkins Brown, Swiss firm Vogt and DSDHA — which have been controversially dropped by mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

  • Opinion

    Panel beating

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    The Stirling Prize has been plagued with controversy this year.

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Features

    Concerning Callcutt’s bare cheek

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    John Callcutt’s unwarranted attack on the profession at Venice highlights how quiescent architects have become

  • James Potter
    Review

    Capture the art of concrete

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Concrete Quarterly, in partnership with BD, announces the winners of its photo competition