All Building Design articles in 27 October 2006

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  • News

    This week: Yorkshire

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Our weekly regional news round up

  • News

    This Week

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    This Week in brief

  • Opinion

    Shape up!

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Sorry to be pedantic but...

  • Opinion

    Sad story

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    It was depressing to read in your report (News October 13) that Arb’s new chief executive thinks the Reform Group is trying to change the Architects Act.

  • Opinion

    Street life

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    I welcome BD’s interest in London’s bus infrastructure and its recognition of the role Transport for London plays in the city’s design heritage (News September 29).

  • News

    It’s a peach

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    This striking facade is part of David Chipperfield’s competition-winning design for a £70 million luxury apartment building for Atlanta, Georgia.

  • Opinion

    Poor image

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    I don’t know how I might feel, had I the misfortune to be the author of either of the two projects featured on the front page of BD (October 20).

  • Opinion

    Mistaken identity

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    It was nice to see a photo of Leonard Mannaseh’s kindly face in BD (October 20), even if the caption did say it was of Jim Cadbury Brown.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    My friend Tub Haagendas calls, and we put our heads together to design a second planet

  • Review

    Little Italy grows up

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Folly village or the architecture of pleasure? Alan Powers is engaged by a book celebrating Portmeirion’s 80th anniversary

  • News

    Put out to grass

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Architect Andrew Wright Associates has beaten practices including DRMM and Jestico & Whiles to design a £15 million sports academy and park.

  • News

    Pelli rethink wins Paradise go-ahead

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Just as Broadway Malyan’s Mann Island scheme was delayed yet again by Liverpool’s planners this week (see left), architect Cesar Pelli bowed to the heritage lobby and in so doing received consent for his residential scheme nearby.

  • News

    Farrell’s Gateway triumph

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Terry Farrell has won his battle to turn the Thames Gateway into a wetlands park stretching along the River Thames from London into Kent and Essex, with the government set to endorse his vision at next month’s Thames Gateway Forum.

  • News

    Olympic stadium ‘will be no white elephant’

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    The main Olympic stadium will not turn into an “expensive white elephant,” Olympic Delivery Authority chief executive David Higgins promised MPs this week.

  • Technical

    It’s time you knew the drill

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Designers are set to face greater responsibility for assessing fire risk.

  • Opinion

    Down the tube

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    While welcoming Tim O’Toole’s pledge to return London Underground to the glory days of Frank Pick (News October 6) with stations as distinctive as churches, he seems only to be interested in the new if my local tube station, Arsenal, is anything to go by.

  • Technical

    Eyes down for latest in energy rules saga

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Efficiency targets just got more complex.

  • News

    DOH was ‘negligent’ in hospital programme

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    A leading doctor has accused the Department of Health of negligence in its multi-billion pound building programme.

  • News

    ‘Stop making excuses and tackle diversity’

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    The profession needs to “stop making excuses” and tackle its lack of diversity, according to a fiery speech that reignited the debate on discrimination in architecture this week.

  • News

    Taking the desert by storm

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    This is the latest design to burst forth from Foster & Partners — an “ultra-luxury” $2 billion (£1 billion) residential scheme for Egypt’s Red Sea Coast.