All Building Design articles in 27 January 2006 – Page 2

  • News

    Gehry flies to UK to defend Hove plans

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Redesign denials after architect explains scheme to EH and Cabe

  • Opinion

    Cover stories

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Regardless of whether it is right or wrong for Arb to regulate provision of architects' professional indemnity cover (News January 13), the practice of publishing required levels of cover is naïve, if well-intentioned.

  • News

    Edaw consortium takes park contract

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    The design team which helped secure the Olympics for London was finally rewarded this week, when the four architects and three engineers were handed the contract for the Olympic Park.

  • News

    University challenge

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Edward Cullinan Architects last week celebrated the opening of the first phase of its £90 million campus for the new Singapore Management University.

  • Family home developments such as this are being proposed  for city centres by Benoy.
    News

    Home sweet city centre

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Manchester developers lure families into city centres with promise of larger apartments

  • News

    Foster means business

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has designed this tower for Spinningfields, Manchester's new business district.

  • News

    Olympic boss seeks to calm early jitters

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Construction chief axes live tenders to allow for better planning

  • News

    Two cities in battle for BBC HQ

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Manchester and Salford are fighting it out to host the BBC's new northern headquarters and win all the regeneration benefits that will go with it.

  • News

    Schemes for Basin replaced

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Plans for six new buildings by three architects including former SOM director Michel Mossessian have replaced schemes by Richard Rogers and Jestico & Whiles at London's Paddington Basin, it emerged this week.

  • Opinion

    Striking the right balance in the city

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    While my natural inclination would be to concur with Rem Koolhaas's view that the government's relentless concentration on its risk-averse Respect agenda might have the side-effect of creating soulless cities and townships, I nevertheless found myself in complete agreement with your "Not everything goes in the city" leader (Comment January ...

  • News

    Clients asked to sign design manifesto

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Olympics bosses including Tessa Jowell, Sebastian Coe, Ken Livingstone and Olympic Delivery Authority chairman Jack Lemley are to be asked to commit to a manifesto for design covering all new projects for the 2012 Games.

  • The east London tower block  where Home is being staged.
    Review

    High art or home truths?

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Elaine Knutt sees a play performed in the tower block where it is set

  • B
    Features

    Architest

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    This week: Architects and their relatives

  • News

    Architects in Scotland ‘punished' for Holyrood

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Architects in Scotland are being "punished" by clients for the failures of the £430 million Scottish Parliament project, leading lights of the profession have claimed.

  • News

    Stars back Arb reform

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Rogers and Farrell give support to group seeking to curb regulator

  • Opinion

    Status anxiety

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Ben Derbyshire considers the low status of our profession (News January 20) as the most important issue for the majority of architects.

  • Opinion

    The work of art in the immersive age

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    In his seminal essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin reflects on two modes of architectural experience.

  • News

    Aedas set for Kazakh expansion

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Architectural giant Aedas is set to open three new offices around the world - including one in a former Soviet republic condemned for its human rights record.

  • Canopy for Adjaye’s Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo.
    Review

    The public face of David Adjaye

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    A new show draws on non-western sources to highlight changes in the way we interact.

  • News

    Bad design can make you ill, says academic

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Badly designed neighbourhoods lead directly to rising obesity and mental illness, according to an eminent American academic.