All Building Design articles in 27 July 2007 – Page 3

  • News

    Liverpool over the moon with stadium design

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Liverpool Football Club has revealed these asymmetric designs for a 60,000-seat stadium at the city’s Stanley Park by US architect HKS.

  • News

    Exchange Place design revealed

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Cre8architecture has revealed details of its £45 million proposed Exchange Place office development in Edinburgh.

  • News

    Poundbury style should be default

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    A report from the Prince’s Foundation says “sustainable communities” like Poundbury in Dorset achieve greater value through being more desirable, as well as helping to combat the urban sprawl triggered by government plans for 3 million new homes by 2020.

  • Higgins: clean-up on target.
    News

    Decontamination project starts

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The Olympic Delivery Authority has started to decontaminate 2.5sq km of the Olympic Park.

  • News

    Move to design out crime

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Cabe chair John Sorrell and director of Conran & Partners Sebastian Conran are to head a taskforce to highlight the importance of good design in fighting crime.

  • Dial C for cash.
    Opinion

    Creative thinking

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Now that architects’ archives are commanding huge sums, those with something to sell are being urged to keep everything.

  • News

    Landmark Rykwert Inner Court saved from Foster plan

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Planning inspector finds in favour of 1970s mews courtyard over Foster’s ‘monolithic’ scheme

  • News

    Stride Treglown wins Letchworth contest

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Stride Treglown has won a £25,000 cash prize after beating 66 other entries to win Letchworth’s housing design contest.

  • News

    Flagship stadium moves closer

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Designs by HOK Sport and Peter Cook for London’s Olympic stadium have moved a step closer after the Sir Robert McAlpine consortium signed a memorandum of understanding with the Olympic Delivery Authority.

  • Opinion

    Clapped out

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Also at the town hall, though demonstrating rather less panache, was Stephan Reinke, managing partner of Woods Bagot, unsuccessfully trying to convince the meeting that his 100 West Cromwell Road tower development should get the green light.

  • David Chipperfield. Museum of Modern Literature
    News

    Chipperfield named twice on Stirling shortlist

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield is widely tipped to win this year’s Stirling Prize, with two of his buildings on the shortlist.

  • The timber-clad extension to the converted chapel is a reference to the tin tabernacle churches built in the area in the 1900s.
    News

    Chapel’s conversion keeps local context at the heart of its design

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Tuckey Design has been granted planning permission for its proposals to extend a grade II listed 19th century Baptist chapel in Colerne, Wiltshire.

  • News

    Chalking up a new school

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Michael Lyons Architecture has designed this building for Broad Chalke Primary School in Salisbury.

  • Make masterplanned the £1.5 billion regeneration project.
    News

    Rogers’ team wins Elephant & Castle regeneration

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Architects including Richard Rogers, Glenn Howells and Allies & Morrison are celebrating after client Lend Lease was picked to develop south London’s run-down Elephant & Castle area, one of Europe’s largest regeneration schemes.

  • News

    Fears rise that Olympics will nab Stonehenge cash

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Architect Denton Corker Marshall this week urged the government to support a proposed road tunnel beneath Stonehenge amid fears the government is poised to divert the £24 million of Lottery funding earmarked for the visitor centre to the London Olympics.

  • News

    Stairs key to Cabe’s health kick

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Cabe has called on architects to design buildings boasting prominent and attractive staircases in a bid to get people to walk more.

  • Simon Thurley
    News

    EH cash warning over buildings most at risk

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    English Heritage has warned that the government must significantly increase its funding if it is to remain capable of protecting the country’s most endangered buildings.

  • Opinion

    Confined by a design-community bug

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Ian Martin fears a visit to an architectural launch party may be responsible for his mental illness

  • News

    Government may boost Cabe’s power

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Green paper reveals concern that design standards are still falling short

  • Opinion

    Feeling blue

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    As the floodwaters recede from our river plains, I am reminded of the (paraphrased) words of Joni Mitchell: Oh, they paved paradise, put up an Olympic Park. They’re charging the people £9.2 billion just to see it though, not a dollar and a half.