All Building Design articles in 27 October 2006 – Page 2

  • News

    Exclusive: Zaha’s UK debut

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Next Friday, chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown will open Zaha Hadid’s first building to be completed in the UK.

  • Review

    Culture vulture

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    This week with Sarah Featherstone

  • News

    Jean Nouvel in running to convert EH’s former HQ

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    The ultra-fashionable Jean Nouvel could be drafted in to save English Heritage’s “iconic” former home from the bulldozers.

  • News

    Liverpool clings to status

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Unesco visits spark tougher rules for World Heritage Sites as city ducks demotion over Three Graces row

  • Zaha Hadid's Maggies Centre, Kirkcaldy
    Building Study

    Maggies Centre, Kirkcaldy by Zaha Hadid

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    A Maggie’s cancer care centre in the grounds of a Kirkcaldy hospital is Zaha Hadid’s first UK building. Ellis Woodman finds it takes excellent advantage of a quirky site to create architecture of a very high order.

  • Technical

    Part L: the view from Building Control

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    John Neal, head of building control at Rushcliffe Borough Council, Nottinghamshire, discusses the impact of Part L 2006 on his team

  • Opinion

    Break free of World Heritage tyranny

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    If a two-level planning system wasn’t hard enough, we now a have third level — and it’s global.

  • News

    Branching out

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Architectural practice Clague has unveiled this new building for the “Re-ability” centre, a rehabilitation centre for adults with physical disabilities.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    This week from Concrete Boots

  • Review

    On the bookshelf

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    New book releases...

  • News

    Stoke bids for world fame

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Architects have been handed the challenging task of turning Stoke-on-Trent into a “city that will be internationally acclaimed for its public realm.”

  • News

    BDP sails into Sefton waterfront

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    BDP has unveiled images for its £7 million Sefton Water Centre, which it has submitted for outline planning permission.

  • News

    Livingstone weighs in to defend AUU procurement

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Mayor of London Ken Livingstone this week broke his silence over the ongoing inquiry into conflicts of interest at his Architecture & Urbanism Unit following a formal question by the London Assembly’s deputy chair.

  • Opinion

    Arsenal let-down

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    The assumption that we were not involved in the Lough Road design-and-build housing scheme is correct (Carbuncle Awards October 13).

  • News

    Investment rockets in Clyde area regeneration

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Investment to regenerate the area around the River Clyde could rise to a staggering £5.6 billion, a major waterfront conference held in Glasgow heard last week.

  • Features

    Architest

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    This week: Prisons

  • Opinion

    Good riddance to flash architecture

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Thank heavens that John Prevc of Make, the Elephant & Castle masterplanner, has had the sanity to reject the Alsop consortium’s “flash architecture” in preference for “considerate and well-planned regeneration” (News October 20).

  • News

    Architect sought for East London stations

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    A Balfour Beatty/Carillion consortium is looking for an architect to design four new train stations — Dalston, Hoxton, Haggerston and Shoreditch High Street — after winning a contract to extend the East London Line.

  • News

    Second Arb fine for PII rebel

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    An architect and protester against the Arb’s policies on professional insurance has been disciplined for a second time by the organisation’s conduct committee, sparking claims that he is being victimised.

  • News

    Alsop eyes another at Goldsmiths

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Will Alsop this week pledged to compete for a £6 million new building at Goldsmith’s College, the establishment behind his Ben Pimlott visual arts complex.