All Building Design articles in 28 July 2006 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    Client feedback

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Having been placed third in the selection process for the Shetland cinema and music venue, we believe some recent coverage has been unfortunate (News July 7).

  • Photographed in 1938, the backs of houses in the City of London’s Cloth Fair show a sight common in the medieval city.
    Review

    A distant view of the city

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Anthony Sutcliffe’s London opus fails to convince

  • Opinion

    Charter principles

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    I would like to reassure David Burn (Letters July 21) and BD readers that the new RIBA chartered practice scheme is not quite as suggested in his letter, by clarifying the following points:

  • CZWG’s design for the Bournemouth Pavilion Casino makes use of green-glazed brick similar to that used on the practice’s Westbourne Grove lavatories.
    News

    CZWG gambles on casino laws

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    CZWG Architects has unveiled its design for the Bournemouth Pavilion Casino, which was entered for planning permission earlier this month.

  • News

    Now that’s what I call Modern

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron and the Tate delivered a resounding vote of confidence in the power of iconic architecture this week, unveiling designs for a spectacular £165 million glass edifice set to extend Tate Modern.

  • News

    Poor Edinburgh part I results buck UK upturn

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Only two-thirds of third-year undergraduate students at the Edinburgh College of Art have gained their part I.

  • Brad works on the architectural look.
    Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    This weeks quips …

  • News

    Olympic planners are set to bid for stadium

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    HOK Sport and other members of the Edaw-led consortium which masterplanned the Olympic Park are also in the running for the greatest prize of all: the Olympic Stadium.

  • News

    Study into Barking DLR route

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Llewelyn Davies Yeang has been appointed to prepare a feasibility study for an extension to the Docklands Light Railway between Gallions Reach and Dagenham Dock — which would allow the huge Barking Riverside housing development to go ahead.

  • The Barbican’s 1963 Milton Court building: “An outstanding building... very closely related to what Le Corbusier was doing at the time”.
    News

    Fury at Barbican building threat

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Chamberlin Powell & Bon’s Milton Court building would make way for £100 million Guildhall development

  • Abandoned: GMW’s winning scheme.
    News

    Manchester proposal axed

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    A competition to design a new building in a prominent location in St Peter’s Square, Manchester, has been scrapped following the selection of GMW Architects and Sheppard Robson as joint winners.

  • Opinion

    Reconstructing the art of conversation

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    My interest in interviews was triggered by two conversations that I read as a student. One was between Pierre Cabanne and Marcel Duchamp; the other between David Sylvester and Francis Bacon. These books brought me to art, they were like oxygen. I was fascinated by the idea of how an ...

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    Features

    Architest

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    This week: UK architecture schools

  • News

    PM in debate over Kent’s all-single-room hospital

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    The prime minister has been drawn into a debate over the future of one of the UK’s most innovative PFI hospitals.

  • The glazed conservatory of Hopkins Architects’ Evelina Children’s Hospital.
    News

    Heat alert at Hopkins hospital

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    An urgent investigation has been launched after patients at a flagship hospital nominated for this year’s Prime Minister’s Better Public Building award allegedly sweltered in temperatures of up to 32°C (90°F) during the recent hot weather.

  • Opinion

    Arb accreditation is based on quality

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    In response to John Assael (Letters July 14), I studied for my part I in Hong Kong and came to the UK for my part II two years ago. I undertook UK accreditation with Arb in December 2004.

  • News

    Aah Bicester…

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Midlands practice BBLB Architects has revealed images of this completed residential development in the expanding Oxfordshire town of Bicester.

  • News

    Koolhaas in 24-hour interview

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist will be seeing the night through at the Serpentine Gallery this Friday, alongside a raft of notable figures in a marathon debate focusing on London.

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    Features

    Class of 2006 - The UK’s top graduates

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    For diploma students leaving university this summer, it was the final hurdle. But of the hundreds eligible, only a handful of the most exceptional graduates could earn a place in BD’s Class of 2006.

  • News

    19% back BNP man

    2006-07-28T00:00:00Z

    Profession welcomes Sunand Prasad as next RIBA president after controversial election