All Building Design articles in 28 March 2008 – Page 2

  • Features

    Tempers rise over how we lived then

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    As the hyperbole flew in a live BBC television debate in 1979, modernist architects were branded ‘war criminals’

  • The view from a balcony on the estate.
    News

    Rogers walkabout at Robin Hood Gardens

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers has written to Tower Hamlets Council in support of BD’s campaign to save Robin Hood Gardens.

  • News

    Peter Morrison’s speech in full

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    The full text of RMJM chief executive Peter Morrison’s speech, made at the launch of the RMJM/Harvard joint initiative

  • Opinion

    Long falls short

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Boots raised an eyebrow at the latest issue of GQ Style, the glossy bible of fashionable homoerotica.

  • Opinion

    There’s ethics... and ethics

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    It’s good to see ethical issues debated in the pages of BD, but there is a danger of over-simplification.

  • Opinion

    Reckless Erick

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    What planet is Erick van Egeraat on? The one thing we learn from history is that we don’t, and while Daniel Libeskind’s protest is a small one, I applaud it.

  • Opinion

    Town downer

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    As a life-long resident of Barking, I am all too aware that Margaret Hodge doesn’t get into town very much, unless of course there is a camera about for her to beam into.

  • News

    Piano unveils office development

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Renzo Piano has unveiled designs for a new 46,000sq m landmark office development in central London (pictured), now on site.

  • Opinion

    Poor on detail

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Saul Metzstein (Opinion March 14) rather glides over the change of tenure in Keeling House as a key factor in how this building was “rescued”.

  • News

    Foster’s public square for Dallas

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has revealed designs for its Annette Strauss Artist Square in Dallas, Texas.

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    An editing error crept into last week’s Debate: 20-40 tonnes of carbon dioxide, not carbon monoxide, are emitted when building a home.

  • White cooling sails and wicker ventilation panels counter heat generated by the kitchen.
    Technical

    Keeping cool with Waugh Thistleton

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Passive heat and ventilation at the Water House restaurant on Regent’s Canal

  • Chris Littlemore
    News

    'Confident' SMC turns the tide

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    SMC Group’s shares have risen to their highest level this year after the troubled architecture firm revealed an expected boost in revenue and cash flow.

  • News

    Here comes the sun

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Capita Architecture’s Howe Dell primary school, the first eco-school in Hertfordshire, has been officially opened.

  • Opinion

    Conduct of code

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s Debate made me consider what the point of the Code for Sustainable Homes is.

  • News

    Northern cities need closer links

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    The Centre for Cities is calling for greater infrastructure investment linking northern cities, warning that small northern towns risk slipping behind their southern counterparts economically if they do not improve their links to Manchester and Leeds.

  • Wing Shya, The Soft Touch, from Time magazine, 2005.
    Review

    Journey to the East at the V&A’s China Design Now exhibition

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Charles Holland takes in the breadth of China’s burgeoning creative industries

  • Opinion

    Charity shopped

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Most publications tend to shy away from the subject for fear of incurring the wrath of the Zionist movement/ lobby.

  • Opinion

    Who's in charge?

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Former Cabe chairman Stuart Lipton was representing the little known Major Developers Group at a top level DCLG seminar at Cabe HQ this week.

  • News

    Central Library’s fate is sealed

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has vowed to demolish the 1974 Birmingham Central Library building, designed by John Madin, even if it is listed.