All Building Design articles in 28 September 2007 – Page 2

  • News

    Perkins & Will opens UK office

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Perkins & Will, the second largest architect in the US, has opened its first UK office to handle its work as executive architect on the Merchant Square scheme in Paddington, west London.

  • Opinion

    Never mind the...

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    It seems that Tessa Jowell is more than a little exasperated with the jargon spewing from the ODA.

  • News

    Sheffield master work

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Urbed has submitted its competition-winning masterplan for Sheffield’s £400 million West Bar scheme for outline planning.

  • News

    Tony Wilson scheme lives on

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Local architects are being sought to bring legendary music boss Tony Wilson’s Weave project in Burnley to fruition.

  • Opinion

    Late lament

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Staff and patients at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool will soon have an all-too-clear reminder of the green oasis that it is about to obliterate.

  • News

    LDY wins King’s Lynn marina

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Llwelyn Davies Yeang has been appointed to masterplan a 250-berth marina in Norfolk.

  • Opinion

    Justice served

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    As the Bovis Lend Lease design manager for Manchester Civil Justice Centre from October 2002 to August 2004, I find it very disappointing that for such a spectacular building you do not give adequate credit to the primary structure and make no mention at all of the primary facade works.

  • Opinion

    Hitting the roof

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    It was intriguing to compare the measured elegance of the roof at St Pancras (Solutions, September 7) with, on the following pages, the contrived “architecture” of the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.

  • Opinion

    HIPs out of joint

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Richard Brindley (Practice September 21) gives an accurate account of how the HIPs are now fractured!

  • News

    Planners want more green space

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    The Town & Country Planning Association has called for more green space in urban developments to help combat climate change and flooding.

  • Opinion

    Trees are green

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    I am concerned by the letter from Jun Huang (September 7) on timber as a construction material being less than “green”.

  • The underground gymnasium is side-lit by a neighbouring lightwell.
    Building Study

    Gym’ll fix it

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    A limited site, bound by listed buildings, meant that when St Marylebone School wanted to expand, the only way was down.

  • News

    Six firms shortlisted for garden history museum

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    AOC, Sarah Hare Architects and Ullmayer Sylvester are among six young firms shortlisted for a competition at the Museum of Garden History on the banks of the Thames at Lambeth.

  • News

    Financial jitters threaten new towers

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Design quality could be first victim of belt- tightening

  • Opinion

    Ego trip

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    German Artist Thomas Schütte, designer of Hotel for the Birds, a sculpture for Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth, has the second-oldest profession in his sights.

  • News

    DRMM to work on a mobile Tate

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    De Rijke Marsh Morgan has seen off international rivals to the contract for a feasibility study for a mobile Tate gallery. The practice will also provide design advice for the preliminary stages of the project.

  • Cuffs: now that’s an idea...
    Opinion

    Hodge dodge

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Boots’ attempts to track down the new architecture minister Margaret Hodge are proving almost as difficult as those to find her predecessor, David Lammy, who managed to escape BD’s clutches during his entire stint at the DCMS.

  • Opinion

    Digging up some new relics of the past

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Ian Martin is kept abreast of the latest archaeological finds

  • Iconic: DCM’s civil justice building in Manchester.
    Opinion

    Originality rests on strong design

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Ellis Woodman was, in my view, completely accurate in suggesting that Manchester’s new Civil Justice Centre “has all the makings of an icon” (September 14).

  • News

    Herzog & de Meuron honoured

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (pictured) have won the architecture category in the world’s most lucrative art award, the prestigious Japanese Praemium Imperiale.