All Building Design articles in 27 July 2007 – Page 2

  • Features

    Name the mystery voice and win a £25 music token

    2007-07-27T12:28:00Z

    Visit bdonline on Monday and enter our new weekly Name that Voice competition

  • News

    This week

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    This week

  • News

    Remedial works start on roof

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Remedial works have begun at Battersea Power station to secure the iconic building ahead of its redevelopment, which is being masterplanned by Rafael Viñoly.

  • Siena: a good urban place.
    Opinion

    Place setting

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Unlike architecture, a “good place” takes much longer to evolve and develop its form (Debate July 20).

  • Maligned: the new building.
    Opinion

    Out of tune

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Your article on Chetham’s School of Music (July 20) presents a misleading picture.

  • News

    Leith Street revival

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Edinburgh practice Allan Murray Architects has won panning for this ambitious office development in the city’s Leith Street.

  • Opinion

    Out to launch

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Despite the excitement over this week’s announcement of the Elephant & Castle scheme’s winning private sector partner, Boots could not help feeling that those present had their minds on the summer hols.

  • Ter-moo-nators: hair and there.
    Opinion

    Just ruminating

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    This unlikely sight at the AA’s “wet hair” pavilion is actually not a herd of mutant human-cows but a group from publisher Random House which caused widespread bemusement in central London while promoting its forthcoming children’s book series, Cows In Action.

  • News

    TCPA identifies three vital issues

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The Town & Country Planning Association is calling for social and economic sustainable development issues to be given equal weight to environmental concerns in eco-town proposals.

  • Opinion

    How to stonewall

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Of all the indignities suffered by architects, Boots imagines that fending off well meaning suggestions about how to improve the design of their buildings is one of the worst.

  • The proposed tower, adjacent to the National Theatre.
    News

    Tower ‘would spoil Somerset House views’

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Cabe has attacked Lifschutz Davidson Sandiland’s Doon Street Tower scheme south of the Thames because of its impact on views from Somerset House.

  • Table with Mexican crockery, 2006.
    Review

    It’s a rocky horror show

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Tony McIntyre is unimpressed by a show that warns against the corporate culture

  • Foreboding and threat: Robin Maurice’s Nightscapes.
    Review

    Questions to hit the spot

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Despite shortcomings, this show uses the psychology of the city to challenge preconceptions, says John Lee

  • Hawking building: no context?
    Opinion

    Hawking puzzle

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The reported comments by the spokesman for Donald Insall Associates on being nominated for RIBA East Awards for the Stephen Hawking Building in West Road Cambridge (July 20), go some way to explain its puzzling nature.

  • Opinion

    Hands off Noddy, man of the people

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Children’s TV programmes are more clued up than architects as to the housing people want

  • Opinion

    House grouse

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    For as long as I can remember, the debate about housing numbers has dragged on. Seeing film of housebuilding in the 1930s, nothing much has changed. We still pile lumps of baked clay (bricks) and cover roofs in slabs of stone (slates).

  • Perspective of front elevation.
    Technical

    A glimpse of paradise

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    BDP is determined to preserve city views at Liverpool’s Paradise Street cinema complex by using a new type of steel column

  • News

    St Pancras hotel fire setback

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    A project to refurbish the grade I listed Midland Grand Hotel above St Pancras Station, by RHWL and Richard Griffiths Architects, was hit by a fire this week.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Too high a price for expansion

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Architecture courses are hugely popular — great! But it’s not so clever if saturation means falling standards

  • B is for beloved city landmark.
    Technical

    I wish i’d done that

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Elsie Owusu, B of the Bang, Manchester